AIR PEACE has had to fly all the aircrafts in its fleet around the Nigeria airspace to ensure air worthiness before Flight resumption.
The aircrafts were all flown and tested in special flights without passengers from Lagos, Port Harcourt toAbuja and back to base. According to Peace Airline this is to make them able to resume operations as resumption approaches in top shape.
Having been grounded for about three months, though they have been under very strict storage with extensive maintenance checks carried out on them, the spokesperson of the airline, Stanley Olisa, in explanation, said the shakedown flights are part of the measures the airline has developed to guarantee the safety of both passengers and crew when operations resume.
Olisa said: “Within this period of flight ban, we have ramped up technical maintenance of all our aircrafts, scaled up cabin refresh and carried out thorough disinfection to ensure they remain fit for the skies when the authorities flag off operations”. He went on to say that the aircrafts are now brought out of storage. The pilots and flight attendants have had to be retrained in line with NCAA directives.
Mr Olisa continued, “As you know, we have been operating ‘special flights’ to local and international destinations, and we have more of such flights in the works. This accentuates our preparedness for operation restart as our pilots, cabin crew and engineers have been hands-on and are very current. So, we are hundred percent ready to resume”.
This is one airline that has been operating charter and evacuation flights to various international destinations all through this period of flight bans. In April, Air Peace delivered Federal Government’s medical supplies from Turkey and China to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also carried out evacuation flights to India, Israel and China within the last two months.