Air Peace and Travelport Forge Strategic Alliance to Boost West African Aviation Connectivity
In a significant development for West Africa’s aviation sector, Travelport, a global leader in multi-source travel content, has secured a multi-year content distribution agreement with Air Peace Limited, Nigeria’s largest airline and a dominant force across West Africa. This partnership promises to elevate Air Peace’s presence on the international stage while empowering travel professionals with enhanced access to the airline’s comprehensive offerings.
Air Peace operates an extensive network, servicing domestic routes within Nigeria, regional destinations across West Africa, and key international markets including the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. By leveraging Travelport’s advanced distribution capabilities and its sophisticated retailing platform, Travelport+, Air Peace intends to broaden its market reach and enhance the visibility of its products and brand globally.
The collaboration comes at a time when airlines in emerging markets are increasingly seeking to adopt modern retailing and distribution technologies. These innovations enable carriers to connect seamlessly with a vast ecosystem of travel agencies, ensuring their services are discoverable and bookable with greater ease and efficiency. For Air Peace, this means tapping into Travelport’s expansive network of hundreds of thousands of travel agencies worldwide via Travelport+, which offers enriched content, branding, and a next-generation marketplace experience.
Damian Hickey, Global Vice President and Head of Travel Partners at Travelport, expressed optimism about the partnership: “Air Peace is a strategically important airline in West and Central Africa. This agreement not only strengthens our content portfolio in these vital markets but also enables Air Peace to extend its global presence and deliver enhanced, branded content to travel agencies globally.”
On the other side, Nowel Ngala, Chief Commercial Officer of Air Peace Limited, highlighted the strategic importance of this alliance: “This partnership with Travelport marks a pivotal milestone in Air Peace’s growth and international expansion strategy. As Nigeria’s and West Africa’s largest airline, we are committed to ensuring our services are easily accessible to travel agencies worldwide. Travelport’s extensive reach and cutting-edge technology platform will be instrumental in helping us grow sales, enhance the customer experience, and strengthen our footprint in key international markets.”
This agreement reinforces Travelport’s expanding influence across Africa, where airlines increasingly value distribution platforms that combine broad agency connectivity with innovative retailing standards. For West Africa’s travel industry, the partnership signals improved booking efficiencies, richer content access, and greater opportunities to promote regional carriers on a global scale.
As Air Peace continues to grow its network and embrace technological advancements, this collaboration with Travelport is poised to accelerate the airline’s international ambitions while supporting Africa’s broader aviation development goals. The expanded content availability on Travelport+ will also empower travel intermediaries across sub-Saharan Africa to offer their clients more seamless and diverse flight options, further integrating the region into the global travel market.
