Air Peace has landed in the OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg and is set to evacuate 320 Nigerians.
The flight which landed Wednesday morning, is scheduled to leave the airport for Nigerian in a couple of hours, BuisnessDay’s findings show.
Yesterday, the flight billed to airlift Nigerians from South Africa was delayed for 24 hours because authorities at the OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg did not give permit to the airline for the flight in time.
Allen Onyema, The Chairman and CEO, who confirmed this said, “We did not take off by 1:00am as scheduled because South African authorities are yet to give us landing permit. We are hopeful that they will give us the permit. Our crew waited till 3:00 am but when the permit did not come, they went back to the hotel. Once we get the permit we will set off to South Africa. We don’t want to speculate but we are hopeful they will give the permit,” Onyema said.
Air Peace is expected to evacuate second batch of returnees, numbering 320 Nigerians as a result of the xenophobic attacks on Africans by South African indigenes.
