Air Peace Decorates First Female Captain

Nigeria’s leading airline, Air Peace on Monday decorated its first female pilot, Sinmisola Ajibola as captain.

Sinmisola, who joined Air Peace in February 2017, as a Senior First Officer (SFO), made history as the airline’s first female captain.

She is from a family of pilots - father and four brothers, three of whom are with Air Peace.

Presenting the new captain to the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema for decoration, the Chief Pilot, Captain Victor Egonu said he predicted Sinmisola’s elevation on the first flight she did with him.

Decorating Sinmisola with her captain epaulettes at Air Peace Corporate Headquarters in Lagos in company with the airline’s Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Olajide, Director of Flight Operations, Capt. Wellington Eyimina and Chief Pilot, Capt. Victor Egonu, Onyema said he was proud of her achievement.

He urged the new captain to sustain her outstanding performance in and out of the cockpit.

He praised the airline’s pilots and their other Nigerian colleagues for displaying excellence in the cockpit as well as standing tall among their counterparts across the globe.

Onyema said that Air Peace caused a revolution in the nation’s aviation industry in the area of pilots’ benefits.