direct flights from Lagos to Johannesburg Arik Air

Arik Air has introduced daily direct flights from Lagos to Johannesburg south africa

Flights will depart Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport each evening at 21.35 local time and arrive into Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport at 04.50 the following morning. The return flight will depart Johannesburg every afternoon at 13.45 local time, arriving back into Lagos at 19.00 local time on the same day.

“With such an attractive on-board product, Arik Air is very proud to be able to offer now, our awarding-winning service to customers wishing to travel between Lagos and Johannesburg,” said Mike McTighe. “Guests in Premier Class will enjoy luxurious leather-upholstered seats that convert into fully flat 75-inch long beds, a state-of-the-art personal video- and audio-on-demand entertainment system and a wide 17-inch personal TV screen. Guests will also have their own in-flight bar area in which to relax,” he stated.
Arik Air also offers a complete Nigerian on-board experience with a blend of colloquial Nigerian food serving traditional dishes such as hot pepper soup as well as international cuisine.
The A330-200 is a two class configuration providing 24 Premium Business Class seats, with an impressive 62 inch seat pitch and seat width of 21 inches, and 259 Economy Class seats with extra wide seat width of 19 inches, each with individual seat back 9 inch screens offering the very best in-flight facilities, providing guests with maximum comfort and style.

The Premium Business Class product has a complementary offering designed to meet the discerning business traveller’s needs including an angled lie flat seat, a personal 10.6 inch armrest monitor, a USB port for charging personal devices and the very latest in-flight entertainment technology installed.



Guests will also continue to be afforded the most generous baggage allowance in the industry –

three 30kgs bags in Premier Class and two 30kgs in Economy Class.

“We’re very excited to welcome this addition to the Arik fleet. The aircraft has passed all regulatory requirements and is in pristine condition. I am confident that it will be received as our A340-500 aircraft operating to London Heathrow and New York JFK.”

Arik Air is Nigeria’s leading commercial airline. It now operates a fleet of 26 state-of-the art regional, medium haul and long haul aircraft. The airline currently serves 22 airports across Nigeria as well as Accra (Ghana), Banjul (Gambia), Cotonou (Benin), Dakar (Senegal), Freetown (Sierra Leone), London Heathrow (UK), Johannesburg (South Africa) and New York JFK (USA).

The airline currently operates over 120 flights daily from its hubs in Lagos and Abuja.