Air Peace, Nigeria and West Africa’s largest airline, on Thursday took delivery of their second E195-E2 aircraft.
The aircraft flew from Embraer’s facility in São José dos Campos, Brazil and joined the Air Peace fleet in Nigeria.
Air Peace became the launch customer in Africa for the E2, the newest, most efficient, and most comfortable aircraft in the segment.
The company said 11 more of the aircraft are expected to arrive in weeks in a deal in which all purchase rights exercised was US$2.2bn.
The new aircraft are configured in a comfortable dual-class arrangement with 124 seats.
The Chairman and CEO of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, said the E195-E2 is the perfect aircraft to expand the company’s domestic and regional operations.
“We are aware of the aircraft’s impressive economic performance as well as its unique configuration, the major reasons we placed an order for this aircraft.
“It is also a historic feat as Air Peace is the first to operate this aircraft model in the whole of Africa. The E195-E2 aircraft will further help us actualise our ambition of connecting not just the whole of Nigeria, but the entire African continent while feeding long-haul flights from our Lagos hub.
“The acquisition will enable us to deliver on our ‘no-city-left-behind’ initiative, which is underpinned by our goal to reduce the air transportation burden of Africans”.
