United Nigeria Plans Routes Expansion, Signs Agreement For 6 Aircraft With Southwest Airlines

In bid to run caller flights into approved domestic, regional, and planetary designations and assistance much passengers and cargo astatine competitory fares, United Nigeria Airlines has announced the signing of a landmark craft merchantability and acquisition statement with Southwest Airlines for the transportation of six Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

The strategical acquisition and fleet enlargement people a caller signifier successful United Nigeria Airlines’ strategical program and growth.

The Boeing 737-800, renowned for its precocious exertion and plan enhancements that amended performance, efficiency, and rider comfort, volition alteration United Nigeria to broaden its domestic, regional, and planetary operations, heighten ratio and capacity, and fortify Nigeria’s competitory borderline successful planetary aviation.

This statement represents not lone the acquisition of craft but besides a ground-breaking accidental for collaboration with Southwest Airlines, 1 of America’s astir reliable and profitable operators of the B737NG.

With awesome substance ratio owed to its precocious aerodynamics and businesslike engines, the 737-800 importantly reduces operational costs and minimises biology impact.
Its versatile scope of astir 2,935 nautical miles volition let United Nigeria Airlines to service some short-haul and medium-haul routes effectively, optimising our networks.

The spacious compartment enhances rider comfortableness with wider seats, larger overhead bins, and improved lighting. It tin accommodate up to 189 passengers successful a single-class configuration.

Speaking, the enforcement president of United Nigeria Airlines, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, said the Boeing 737-800 upgrade would let for much profitable enlargement and growth.

He said the caller fleet would alteration the hose to run flights to approved domestic, regional, and planetary destinations.

“After 4 years of coagulated and reliable operations by United Nigeria Airlines, the Boeing 737-800 upgrade volition pave the mode for a much profitable enlargement and growth,” Prof. Okonkwo said.

He continued, “The caller fleet volition alteration america to run caller flights into approved domestic, determination and planetary destinations, assistance much passengers and cargo astatine competitory fares, and supply businesslike point-to-point travels, helping Nigerians and different African travellers to destruct inefficient stopovers and prevention invaluable time. In addition, this acquisition volition make thousands of nonstop and indirect jobs and boost Nigeria’s economical improvement and maturation successful enactment with the policies of President Bola Tinubu.”

“We indispensable grounds the beardown enactment we person received from Boeing passim the full process and the committedness for continued enactment to guarantee a creaseless introduction into work and cognition of the fleet. The fantabulous attraction civilization of Southwest Airlines, which is successful enactment with United Nigeria Airlines’ culture, motivated america to marque the acquisition.

“We are looking guardant to continued collaboration with Southwest Airlines post-delivery successful antithetic areas specified as: grooming and attraction support, among different areas. Consequently, we person besides expressed involvement successful acquiring an further 4 Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft, bringing the full to ten, which volition beryllium inducted into the United Nigeria Airlines fleet betwixt the archetypal 4th of 2026 and the archetypal 4th of 2027.”

“We are pleased to invited United Nigeria Airlines to the 737 household with its archetypal 737-800,” said Anbessie Yitbarek, Boeing’s vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing for Africa, speaking during the signing ceremonial astatine the firm field of Southwest Airlines successful Dallas, USA. “The 737-800 volition supply United Nigeria Airlines with superior reliability, substance ratio and high-value returns operators necessitate successful today’s competitory market.”

This acquisition was brokered successful concern with SkyWorks Holdings, LLC. “We’re pleased to person partnered with Southwest Airlines arsenic they proceed to restructure and modernise their fleet, the main commercialized serviceman of SkyWorks Holdings, LLC, Anders Hebrand said. “With United Nigeria Airlines, these top-of-the-line 737-800s person recovered a large location successful the increasing African aviation market, wherever they volition beryllium productive for galore much years to come.”