Nigerian airline, Air Peace, has responded to a letter by the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates to Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over its operation in the Arabian country.

Air Peace said that contrary to the claim of the GCAA that it had been given a slot in Dubai, the airline had never flown to the Dubai International Airport.

UAE's Minister of Economy, who also doubles as Chairman of the GCAA, Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, had in the letter to Sirika described the reduction of Emirates’ flights to one from 21 by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority as unjust and sought the intervention of the Minister of Aviation.

Al Marri said the issue that led to the withdrawal of Emirates’ schedule was an operational one between Air Peace and Sharjah Airport and had nothing to do with Emirates.

But in a counter letter to Sirika, Air Peace described the position of the UAE minister as “misinformed".

The letter signed by the Chief Operating Officer of the airline, Oluwatoyin Olajide, read in part, "We take very serious exception to that letter. We believe that the minister and Chairman of the Board of the GCAA may have been misinformed of the true position of the issues in discourse as no one in such an exalted position and office would deliberately push out such untrue statement.

“He has our respect, but his letter has misinformed the public about the real facts against us. We do not see what wrong Air Peace has done in this whole saga. We are the ones...

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