Air Peace signed a contract for three E195-E2s jets. It has confirmed the purchase rights from the original contract, signed in the month of April this year.
The latest deal was signed at the
These new E195-E2s will include in
The signing by Air Peace made it the first launch customer of the new brand of E-jets in
The E195-E2s ordered will have dual configurations with 12-seater business class and 102-seater in the economy class and the aircraft will comes in single configuration of all economy class of 144 seats.
Mrs. Ejiroghene Eghagha, Air Peace's Chief of Finance and Administration, signed the new deal on behalf of the airline said: 'The E195-E2 is the perfect aircraft to expand our domestic and regional operations and the new deliveries will ease our subsidiary fleet in the Air
'We are receiving impressive data about the aircraft's economics when in revenue service, and this was a driver to place this new firm order with
'It is our plan to connect the whole Nigerian cities that have airports and burst the triangular routes by connecting flights to direct destinations. Air Peace is looking forward to serving Nigerians with these brand new airplanes and adding more routes to the existing ones for the overall development of our country.'
As per the airline, with the delivery of the new jets they would able to connect to more cities in its domestic operations by developing new routes.
'We will like to develop new routes to enhance the nation's economy. We will like to connect Owerri to
'We will use our 50-seater Embraer ERJ 145 jets, which we acquired for this purpose. We have just added two of the brand to our existing six, making it eight aircraft. As the new deliveries arrive, we utilise the 50-seater jets to connect every city in the country,' Eghagha added.
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