LAA produces two IATA best performing students in Nigeria

LAGOS AVIATION ACAD EMY LAA PRODUCED TWO INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT AS SOCIATION (IATA) best performing students in the January 2022 diet in the Foundation in Travel & Tourism course and the IATA Managing the Travel Business course.

LAA is one of the fastest-growing aviation training institutions in Nigeria, and it is celebrating the achievements of its students.

Michael Ozoalor made a distinction in the January 2022 diet of IATA Foundation in Travel & Tourism course and Oluwatosin Jolayemi, made a distinction in the January 2022 IATA Managing the Travel Business exams and both became IATA Overall Best Performer in Nigeria.

Lagos Aviation Academy in its almost five years of being in the aviation training space had produced IATA Best Performers in Nigeria in 2018, 2019, 2021 and most recently in January 2022.

Ivica Kovacic, head, global partnerships and innovation, IATA Training, congratulating, said: “On behalf of IATA Training, I congratulate you on successfully completing the Foundation in Travel and Tourism with Amadeus course and acknowledge you as the student with the best performance in your country for the January 2022 exam session. As our Best Performer, feel free to use this recognition as a reference in any future job application. IATA Training will gladly act as a referrer in your career journey.”

Bankole Bernard, academy director, Lagos Aviation Academy, and chairman, Association of Approved Aviation Training Organisations in Nigeria, while delivering a speech at the award ceremony held at the academy, spoke on the need to properly enlighten the general public on how to identify a standard aviation training school. continue to propel our route expansion as well as fleet modernisation programme. Air Peace has accomplished so much in just seven years of operation, as we now have a network of twenty domestic routes, seven regional routes and two international destinations, including Johannesburg, which we launched in December 2020.

“Also planned for launch in the future are international routes, such as Houston-USA, MumbaiIndia, Guangzhou-China and London. We’re constantly reviewing our route network in line with the travel needs of Africans,” Kamano further said.

Expressing gratitude to the Niger authorities and the Nigerian government who made the airline’s entry into Niamey possible, Kamano promised that Air Peace would work concertedly with all the relevant aviation stakeholders to ensure the new route is maximised for air travellers.

Aisha Kabiru, Nigeria’s deputy ambassador to Niger Republic, emphasised that Air Peace’s entry into Niger would boost socio-cultural and economic ties between both countries and ease the burden of air travel for Nigerians and Niger nationals who connect both destinations, especially for commercial purposes.

Kabiru, who thanked Air Peace for always coming to the rescue of Nigerians, citing the airline’s evacuation record, reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian Embassy in Niger to supporting Air Peace operations in the country.

The airline in February announced plans to kick off three weekly flights into Niamey from Abuja and Kano. It is also working on flying into two other African destinations, namely Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, and Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.