Chinedu Eze

Nigeria’s Air Peace, has drawn a brand-new arc across the Atlantic with the deployment of a Boeing 777 aircraft, which lifted off from Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and, ten unbroken hours later, touched down at Robert L Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre on Thursday.

This marks the first-ever Nigerian dateline on St. Kitts & Nevis’s arrivals board.

The milestone service, arranged for a Pan-African business conference in the Eastern Caribbean, carried delegations from Nigeria, thereby underscoring the airline’s growing trajectory and strategic foray into the global market.

The St. Kitts & Nevis flight is the airline’s third foray into the Caribbean in five years. On 21 December 2020, the carrier operated an 11-hour flight from Lagos to Montego Bay, establishing the first nonstop link between Nigeria and Jamaica, and showcasing the long-range potential of Air Peace’s then-new triple-seven fleet

The flight relied on one of Air Peace’s two Boeing 777 aircraft, which also sustain the airline’s daily Lagos–London Gatwick schedule launched on 30 March 2024—another historic achievement for a private Nigerian carrier.

Chairman and CEO, Dr. Allen Onyema, has hinted that more long-haul aircraft are on the way. In April 2024, he told Arise TV that the airline is finalising acquisitions that will underpin the Abuja–London route, as well as planned services to Houston and New York.

With the St. Kitts success logged, there is a resounding theme from Air Peace: “Nigeria to the world—no stops, no limits.” The Abuja–St. Kitts flight is more than a one-off achievement; it is another proof-point in Air Peace’s steady bid to transform from a regional champion into a global contender, carried aloft on the wings of Africa’s most populous nation.