Fly Mid Africa launches Lagos-BanjulDakar-Freetown-Accra flights

The Gambia’s new national carrier, Fly Mid Africa, will commence flight services from Banjul, the Gambian capital with onward connections to Dakar in Senegal, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Accra in Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria.

The airline also appointed aviation and travels conglomerate, Peacock Aviation Services, as its General Sales Agent in Nigeria.

Consequently, Peacock has commenced ticket sales in its international head office in Ikeja, Lagos and across all its offices in Nigeria, namely, Marina (Lagos) Abuja, Ibadan, Aba, Port Harcourt, Benin and Kano.

Flight services to and fro Lagos will be held on four times a week, it was gathered.

According to a joint statement by Fly Mid Africa and Peacock Aviation, the new flight options was to address the connectivity challenges faced by business and leisure travelers.

Having concluded all operational and commercial arrangements for flight operations, Fly Mid Africa said the flight services to and fro Lagos and onward connections will be operated with two Boeing 737-Classic aircraft; B737-300 (8 Business Class and 124 Economy Class seats) and B737-400 (16 Business Class and 116 Economy Class seats).

Managing Director, Fly Mid Africa, Mr. Bakary Nyassi, said in addition to operating air services in the target routes, Fly Mid Africa is committed to providing safe, reliable and efficient air transport services to spur economic development and foster regional integration through the promotion of trade and regional tourism.

Also speaking, Executive Chairman, Peacock Group of Companies, Aare Segun Phillips, said the vision of Fly Mid Air was in consonance with that of Peacock Aviation, which is to offer upscale travels experience to passengers in a friendly manner leveraging on the best ultramodern technology.