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Nigeria’s Air Peace Becomes First African Airline To Own Embraer E195 E2 Jet (Photos, Video)
Nigeria’s carrier Air Peace Airline will become the first African airline to use the sophisticated Embraer E195 E2.
It will be recalled that in November 2019, Embraer announced at the Dubai Air Show, that Air Peace, Nigeria and West Africa’s largest airline, has signed a contract for three additional E195-E2s. These new E195-E2s will be included in Embraer’s 2019 fourth-quarter backlog and have a value of USD 212.6 million, based on Embraer’s current list prices.
Set to be the first E-Jets E2 operator in Africa, Air Peace’s firm order, announced in April 2019, is now for 13 E195-E2s with 17 purchase rights for the same model.
It may, however, interest you that the jets are getting customised in the factory to be ready for international flights. According to reports, the new 124 seater capacity aircraft is undergoing its final phase of manufacturing at the Embraer facility in Brazil. Thirteen brand new planes ordered; deliveries start are expected in September 2020.
A close look at the video posted by Air Peace and Embraer, however, shows that the plane is being mounted together.
Below are images from the factory and how the work is ongoing in the factory.
Air Peace is a private Nigerian airline founded in 2013 with its head office in Lagos State, Nigeria. Air Peace, which provides passenger and charter services, serves the major cities of Nigeria and flies to several West African destinations and the Middle East. The airline also established a subsidiary – Air Peace Hopper in 2018
As of May 2019, Air Peace flies to the following destinations in Nigeria, the Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and the United Arab Emirates: On January 31, 2020, Air Peace announced two new destinations in India and Israel to be activated before the end of the year.
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