Air Peace, West Africa’s largest carrier, has taken a major step toward becoming a true global airline after Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) cleared it to operate scheduled services to and from Brazil.
The approval accelerates the carrier’s international expansion and shortens travel time between Lagos and São Paulo to about seven hours.
The Brazilian clearance arrives as Air Peace pushes ahead with multiple international ambitions. The airline has applied to Canadian and U.S. authorities for landing rights into Toronto and New York and is putting the final touches on plans to resume flights to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and to Guangzhou, China.
In Europe, the carrier plans three weekly flights to Manchester while continuing to broaden its network across Africa, Europe, North America, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and South America.
These developments mark a notable phase in Air Peace’s strategy to expand long-haul connectivity from West Africa, bringing new passenger and cargo links between the region and major global markets.
Recall that Air Peace recently announced the launch of services to Libreville, Gabon; Conakry, Guinea; Bamako, Mali; and Douala, Cameroon, scheduled to commence on August 1, further strengthening its position as Nigeria’s leading international carrier.
The Brazillian approval contained in ANAC Ordinance No. 19.449/2026, authorizes Air Peace to operate regular passenger, cargo, and mail services between Brazil and destinations within its network, paving the way for direct air connectivity between Nigeria and Brazil by a Nigerian airline.
The airline’s expanding international network already includes London, United Kingdom; Barbados in the Caribbean; and major West African destinations such as Accra, Ghana; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Dakar, Senegal; Banjul, The Gambia; Monrovia, Liberia; and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
A direct Nigeria-Brazil service promises to transform travel, trade, and cultural exchanges between both countries. Like the airline’s Barbados route, the Brazil service is expected to reduce travel time from nearly two days, often involving multiple stopovers, to about seven hours on a direct flight, creating fresh opportunities for tourism, investment, business and people-to-people connections.
Beyond passenger transportation, the authorization is expected to boost cargo operations and deepen economic cooperation between Nigeria, Brazil, and the wider South American region, a press statement issued by the airline’s management explains.
Given the longstanding historical, cultural, and commercial ties between the two countries, direct air connectivity has long been regarded as a missing link in bilateral relations.
With Brazil now added to its growing portfolio of international destinations and several strategic routes on the horizon, Air Peace has taken another major step towards its vision of becoming Africa’s preferred airline and a respected global aviation brand.
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