14/04/2024
Airpeace - 816,130
British Airways - 981,848
Egypt Air - 585,620
Royal Air Moroc- 569,422
Rwanda Air - 679,070
Ethiopian Air - 677,824
Turkish Airlines - 807,408
Airfrance - 1.1m
KLM - 1.1m
Lufthansa - 1m
Virgin Atlantic - 1.1m
Before Airpeace began flying Nigeria to London for around 500k for a one way flight, the cheapest you could get any airline to London was around 3 to 4 million Naira. Then Airpeace came and the tickets have been dropping drastically. The new strategy these foreign airlines have now adopted is to force Airpeace out of the market by dropping their airfare below Airpeace.
What we should all consider is that if we help these foreign airlines to succeed by patronizing them because of their lower rates, what will happen is that Airpeace will no longer be able to compete and they will eventually start exploiting us again. Nigerians are one of the most widely traveled anywhere in the world and Airpeace is our only hope against exploitation.
Credit: Wale Jana
