{"id":189392,"date":"2025-01-23T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/nigeria-15-years-later-air-sierra-leone-resumes-lagos-freetown-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:43:50","slug":"nigeria-15-years-later-air-sierra-leone-resumes-lagos-freetown-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/nigeria-15-years-later-air-sierra-leone-resumes-lagos-freetown-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 15 Years Later, Air Sierra Leone Resumes Lagos-Freetown Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><strong>Air Sierra Leone has resumed its operations after over 15 years of inactivity, even as it partnered with a Nigerian private airline, XEJet to commence scheduled flights between Lagos and Freetown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The Lagos- Freetown flights will operate three times a week; on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking at the inaugural flight with 36 passengers on board which arrived at Muritala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, the airline&#8217;s General Manager, Edgard Lacle described it as a means to foster regional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230078.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Sierra Leone has resumed its operations after over 15 years of inactivity, even as it partnered with a Nigerian private airline, XEJet to commence scheduled flights between Lagos and Freetown. The Lagos- Freetown flights will operate three times a week; on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Speaking at the inaugural flight with 36 passengers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7832,6969,50453,6572,257,4687,7542,6571,1135,254,5114],"class_list":["post-189392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-flights","tag-lagosfreetown","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-resumes","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}