Air Peace Hikes Lagos-Abuja Ticket to N200,000

Air Peace Hikes Lagos-Abuja Ticket to N200,000

From November 1, 2024, a one-way flight ticket from Lagos to Abuja on Air Peace is to hit N200,000.

The cruel economic system has been affecting the aviation enterprise inflicting airways to extend their fares amid lamentations from passengers.

This growth has pressured some Nigerians to desert flights for street transport.

Checks by our correspondent on the airfares of airways on Monday confirmed that Air Peace elevated its fares to N200,000 from November, the very best among the many home airways.

Whereas Air Peace has N200,000 and above on its web site for a one-way journey between Lagos and Abuja, Aero is charging N94,000 to over N109,000; Arik Air has between N104,405 to N139,292; and Ibom Air ranges between N124,000 to over N133,000.

The excessive airfares have left many passengers stranded at airports in latest occasions, as they may not safe flights to their locations.

The busiest routes, Lagos-Abuja and Abuja-Lagos, are extra impacted as many passengers discover it powerful to safe seats.

An official of Air Peace who doesn’t need her identify in print confirmed the event, tying the increment to the current Nigeria’s worsening financial challenges.

“In case you purchase a ticket and see the breakdown, you’ll uncover that we’re bleeding as an aviation firm and even the costs of working the enterprise are virtually getting uncontrolled.

“Simply as everyone knows, all these killing taxes go to the federal government, and companies particularly airways have been left with no alternative apart from to do that, it’s what it’s.”

Additionally, efforts to get the Chief Working Officer of the corporate, Toyin Olajide, had been unfruitful as she ignored each calls and textual content messages of enquiry put throughout to her cellphone.

A businessman, Adeleke Aina, who informed our correspondent that he has been travelling by air for years added that with the charges at which “airfares are skyrocketing by the day with none clear rationalization apart from economic system this, economic system that, I shall be left with no different possibility than take street transport as my new meanings of motion.

“That is killing every part, gasoline has was what it’s and the Federal appears unconcerned with this abnormality. I worry for this nation.”