L- R: Global Safety & Regulatory Affairs. Middle East & Africa, Harrison Debrah; Senior Organizational Consultant and Program Manager, Boeing Global Learning Institute, Harry Magui; Chairman/CEO, Air Peace Limited, Dr. Allen Onyema and Lecturer, Organisational Resilience and Change, Cranfield School of Management, Dr. Fabian Steinmann when The Boeing Group paid a courtesy visit on Air Peace in Lagos recently.
The Boeing Company, a leading global aerospace company in the US, has restated its unalloyed support to Air Peace, Nigeria’s premier airline and West Africa’s largest carrier. This is a testament to the critical role Air Peace plays in the development of aviation industry in Nigeria.
Harry Magui, Senior Organisational Consultant and Programme Manager, Boeing Global Learning Institute made the disclosure when a delegation from The Boeing Company and Cranfield University, a specialist postgraduate university in the UK with world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships that creates leaders in technology and management globally visited Air Peace to conduct a five-day in-person classroom training, to fortify safety culture and operational excellence at Air Peace Limited.
“Air Peace have been phenomenal in advancing the Aviation Industry in Nigeria, so we are here to support them to harness more opportunities in the future with the Advanced Leadership in Safety Excellence Training for all its top leadership within the organization. We recognise your achievement and are proud of Air Peace.” He explained that “all airlines know, even more so Air Peace, that safety is the number one metric within this industry. Without safety, there can be no business in Aviation and also, it is a very important metric not just for the airline but also for regulators, but also for the passengers.” He assured that the leading global aerospace company will continue to collaborate with Air Peace in critical areas such as psychological safety, change management processes, safety leadership, crisis management and just culture.
Speaking in the same vein, Harrison Debrah, Global Safety & Regulatory Affairs, The Boeing Company acknowledged the giant stride Air Peace has made in a very short time. He revealed that Air Peace will continue to be at the centre of Boeing Group’s vision for Nigeria and commended the Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, Dr. Allen Onyema for his resilience, tenacity and passion.
For Dr. Fabian Steinmann, Lecturer, Organisational Resilience and Change at Cranfield School of Management: “We’re now here in Lagos, Nigeria together with Boeing delivering a course for Air Peace. Air Peace just celebrated their 10th Anniversary, so we are excited to engage wisdom and learn more about their operation because at Cranfield, we really care about the safety of the system, making it robust but also making it flexible to adapt to the ever-changing environment.’
He explained that just like Air Peace, safety is at the heart of everything they do at Cranfield adding that they are privileged to travel around the world, pick up the good practices, learn more about the culture and the operation in various countries. “So we’re here to facilitate that
exchange with Nigeria and Air Peace to see how we share some of the good practices and lessons learned from all around the world and translate them into the operation.”
Responding, Dr. Onyema thanked them for their kind words and noted that the management of Air Peace was looking forward to the Advanced Leadership in Safety Excellence training by The Boeing Company. “In Air Peace, safety is at the core of everything we do. We have a system of checks and balances in the system”. He revealed that he has never used any other airline apart from Air Peace because of his trust in the safety and maintenance culture at Air Peace. The Air Peace Chairman explained that the airline encourages the non-punitive report, an indication that the Air Peace has adopted the Just Culture in the organisation.
