Air Peace requests for   support and establishment of a full hub for transit passengers to have seamless transit at Lagos and Abuja airports without passengers having to arrive, collect their luggage, and recheck to continue their journeys.

This will enable Air Peace and other Nigerian carriers to further develop its safe freedom strategy to pull more traffic from the regions surrounding into Nigeria and then to London, instead of allowing this traffic to go to other foreign carriers serving Nigeria.

Chief Commercial Officer of Air Peace,Nowel Ngala made this known while speaking at a conference themed”Survival of Nigerian Carriers on London Route” organized by SAPTCO COMMUNICATION.

“We equally thank the Nigerian travel public for their patronage and patience with us as they continue to make their travel decisions by choosing Air Peace to travel to London.”

Today,Air Peace has daily services from Lagos to Gatwick, three flights from Abuja to Heathrow on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, three flights from Abuja to Gatwick as well. In addition, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

And we have steadily seen growth that has encouraged us recently to launch the additional flights from Abuja to Heathrow this year, last October 2025.

That is, Nigerians still traveling, for example, through Doha, through Istanbul, through Paris, through Addis Ababa, to attain London and UK.

It is now exactly one year, eight months, since Air Peace successfully started direct flights from Lagos to Gatwick in March 2024.

Other carriers, such as Virgin Atlantic, came in much later with direct flights as well from Nigeria directly into the UK.

Today, we have three carriers offering direct services between Lagos and Nigeria, and Gatwick and Heathrow airports, while other international carriers continue to serve the route via their respective hubs, transporting 29% of the business and traffic out of Nigeria via their hubs into London.

The UK-Nigeria route is the first and highest traffic corridor amongst all other markets in Nigeria.

It has an annual traffic of over 450,000 travelers, making it the biggest market share in all the markets serving Nigeria.

International foreign carriers, such as British Airways, have been operating on this route for over 90 years, since their creation.

We want to seize this opportunity to sincerely thank the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, the Minister of Aviation, and the Nigerian government for their relentless support and continuous push to ensure the full presence of a Nigerian carrier on this route, despite all challenges.