{"id":77380,"date":"2025-10-24T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77380"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:27:48","slug":"air-peace-to-begin-abuja-london-heathrow-flights-october-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/24\/air-peace-to-begin-abuja-london-heathrow-flights-october-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Peace to Begin Abuja-London Heathrow Flights October 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David<\/p>\n<p>Air Peace is set to commence its Abuja-London Heathrow service on Sunday, October 26, 2025, marking another milestone for the Nigerian carrier after launching its Lagos-London Gatwick route last year.<\/p>\n<p>The airline becomes the first Nigerian carrier in over a decade to operate direct flights from Abuja to both Heathrow and Gatwick.<\/p>\n<p>Industry observers say the new route follows Air Peace\u2019s stellar performance on the Lagos-London service, recently ranked second in landing precision among over 50 airlines at Gatwick Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation stakeholders commended President Bola Tinubu and Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo for supporting indigenous airlines\u2019 international expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Air Peace Chairman, Dr. Allen Onyema, said the new route reflects the airline\u2019s growing global confidence and commitment to safety and service excellence.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the airline plans to expand further with direct flights from Lagos to Brazil and Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Air Peace is set to commence its Abuja-London Heathrow service on Sunday, October 26, 2025, marking another milestone for the Nigerian carrier after launching its Lagos-London Gatwick route last year. The airline becomes the first Nigerian carrier in over a decade to operate direct flights from Abuja to both Heathrow and Gatwick. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77380","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77382,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77380\/revisions\/77382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}