{"id":73536,"date":"2025-08-19T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73536"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:21:13","slug":"united-nigeria-airlines-resumes-warri-flights-august-25-expands-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/19\/united-nigeria-airlines-resumes-warri-flights-august-25-expands-network\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nigeria Airlines Resumes Warri Flights August 25, Expands Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United Nigeria Airlines will resume scheduled flights to Osubi Airport, Warri, on August 25, 2025, reconnecting the oil-rich city with Lagos and Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the airline\u2019s Head of Corporate Communications, Chibuike Uloka, described the development as a milestone in the carrier\u2019s drive to provide seamless, reliable, and customer-focused air travel across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Operating Officer, Mazi Osita Okonkwo, said the Warri comeback was not just a route expansion but a strategic move to bridge connectivity gaps, strengthen socio-economic ties, and reinforce the airline\u2019s reputation for punctuality, safety, and service excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarri is a key destination for us, and we are excited to return with the dependable service our passengers trust,\u201d Okonkwo stated.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that the airline will expand its network with new direct flights from Lagos and Abuja to Ilorin, and from Abuja to Sokoto.<\/p>\n<p>Looking beyond domestic operations, United Nigeria Airlines will launch international flights from Lagos and Abuja to Accra, Ghana, on October 17, 2025, with additional regional and international destinations planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith United Nigeria Airlines will resume scheduled flights to Osubi Airport, Warri, on August 25, 2025, reconnecting the oil-rich city with Lagos and Abuja. In a statement, the airline\u2019s Head of Corporate Communications, Chibuike Uloka, described the development as a milestone in the carrier\u2019s drive to provide seamless, reliable, and customer-focused air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73538,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73536\/revisions\/73538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}