Peacock Travels Partners Royal Air On Pilgrimage

Jordanian Carrier, Royal Air has entered into partnership agreement with Nigeria’s Peacock Travels and Tours Limited to airlift pilgrims that wish to travel to Jordan where many Biblical sites exist.

The partnership signed recently between the airline and the travel management company, grants Peacock  Travels the exclusive right to handle this year’s holy pilgrimage package to Jordan.

According to the company, the partnership will help to build a relationship and network between Nigerians and Jordanians among other numerous benefits.

A statement by the Group Executive Chairman of Peacock Travels and Tours Limited, Aare Segun Philips said the company was glad to seal the partnership through the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Jordanian Carrier.

In another development, the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has deployed a new navigational procedure which cuts flight time for airlines, and saves fuel and improves safety in the industry.

An official of NAMA disclosed that the introduction of navigational procedure, the area radar control cuts off about 10 minutes from one hour flight. For example, after the introduction of Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) flight to Abuja which used to be one hour 20 minutes was reduced to an average of 55 minutes while the new area radar control has cut it further to an average of 45 minutes.

NAMA said the procedure kicked off on May 29,2013 and has successfully deployed its surveillance facility for area radar control from its two area control centres in Lagos and Kano to allow for optimal flight operations by pilots within the airspace.

Eighteen flights operated by some foreign ailines like AirFrance, British Airways, Lufthansa, Air Portugal, Turkey Airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Saudi Air took advantage of the new air traffic service that commenced midnight -00hr UTC as they were vectored on radar within the Kano flight information region.