United Nigeria Airlines Commences Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt Routes
Barely two months after its inaugural flight, United Nigeria Airlines is spreading its wings further with the commencement of Lagos-Port Harcourt and Abuja-Port Harcourt daily flights.
A statement by Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu, Head, Corporate Communications, United Nigeria said that the direct flight, which would depart from the Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2), Lagos would commence on Thursday, April 22, 2021.
The statement hinted that the inaugural flight to Port Harcourt would depart from the private terminal at 1.30pm.
Besides, he said regular flights from Port Harcourt to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja would depart at 3:00pm daily, while flights from Abuja to Port Harcourt would depart at 4:30pm daily.
He added that the airline would also operate regular flights from Port Harcourt to Lagos daily at 6:00pm.
He said: “The above will remain a regular schedule of United Nigeria Airlines on the Port Harcourt route,” the statement said.
Besides, Mazi Osita Okonkwo, the Chief Operating Officer (COO), United Nigeria Airlines has said its operations, customer service and destinations had been organised to ensure excellence and pursue integrity as a goal.
Okonkwo in an interview with aviation journalists said the airline was very deep-rooted into learning and into knowing their limitations and growing into their experiences, adding that gradually, it was creating the necessary systems, processes institutions and organs that would help the management achieve the target they have set for themselves.
He stated that for an organization to be rated excellent in performance, it must identify all the weaknesses and the strength and be able to develop a widow of opportunity and manage the threats.
He said: “Both micro and macro, micro in the sense that when you come to us, you have the promise that we will unite you to your destination, to family, to your friends, to your associates, the culture you are going to meet and from there we move to unite cultures, different cities in Nigeria, different cultures in Nigeria, different associations and others.
“The unity we are talking about is an experience we want everybody that flies with us to experience to enjoy and to be part of. And we have started in a micro aspect of it, the way we have organized our customer service, the way we have organized our destinations and the way we are expanding into different parts of Nigeria, that is the plan and strategy we have.”
