L-R: Managing Director/CEO Fidelity Bank PLC, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe with the Chairman, Air Peace Airlines, Mr. Allen Onyeama at the welcome ceremony and water salute for the new Embraer aircraft of Air Peace at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja recently, Pic2: Onyeali-Ikpe, Allen Onyeama and Mrs Helen Onyeama with the air hostesses
Air Peace airline’ s third brand new Embraer 195-E2 aircraft whcih it took delivery off last week has been named after Mrs Helen Ekwusi Onyeama, wife of Barrister Allen Onyeama, Chairman of the airline.
The new aircraft with registration number 5N-BYF, named Helen Ekwusi Onyema, touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 2.00 pm and was greeted with a water salute by men of the Fire service department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.
This is coming as the airline revealed that it will take delivery of all the 13 Embraer 195-E2 aircraft it placed firm order for from Embraer Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Brazil by the end of 2022.
Managing Director/CEO, Fidelity Bank PLC. Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, among other dignitaries, was in Abuja that day, when Air Peace Airline took delivery of the first of 13 brand new E195-E2 directly from Embraer facility in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Allen Onyema said: “By next year, we hope to receive all the 13 airplanes we already made firm orders for and by the end of 2023, we intend to activate payment for another 10 of the aircraft brand, which will bring it to 223.”
“We have new routes that we want to deploy the aircraft to. We have new routes that we have just opened and more routes will still come in the coming months. We are opening Gombe very soon and our intention is to open up this country. We will also connect North East with North West and other routes. Owerri-Kaduna and other routes will be connected.”
“We have been designated to so many destinations by the government. We have over 20 destinations, which is very commendable.
While commending the efforts of the airline for rebranding the aviation industry in the country, Director General of the Nigerian civil Aviation Authority ,NCAA , captain Musa Nuhu described what was happening in Nigeria’s air transport industry “was a paradigm shift.”
” I am really proud that I am Director General of NCAA when this paradigm shift is happening. We are all here to work together to grow the industry and we have to give kudos to the entrepreneur, Allen Onyema, as without such people all this will not be possible, without the entrepreneur the whole system is unraveled, we need entrepreneurs like Onyema”, the NCAA Director General said.
Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Mrs Nneka Onyeali – Ikpe inspecting inside the new aircraft
The Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Mrs Nneka Onyeali – Ikpe who was also present at the event commended the chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema for ” being faithful with the agreement signed with the bank. He has been very meticulous in repayment agreement reached.”
” We are prepared to assist the airline bring in any number of aircraft they want “.
