Delta Air Lines is to bring Nollywood to the skies with Nigerian-made movies on board its flights.

Recalled that the airline had brought on board Hollywood and Bollywood.

The genre is being rolled out across Delta’s in-flight entertainment system Delta Studio and will be completed in April.

The first films to be shown will be Bambitious and A Place Called Happy, with more titles coming later in the year.

The movies according to the airline will be available on 339 aircraft flying both internationally and on U.S. domestic routes, including Delta’s daily service between Lagos and Atlanta.

Speaking, Delta’s Commercial Director for East and West Africa, Bobby Bryan, said, “As a global airline, we listen to our international customers to shape our product and services to offer what they want. We already offer African menus and the introduction of Nollywood films shows our commitment to this region and offering local customers popular local entertainment.”

Producer and Lead Actor of “30 Days In Atlanta”, Ayo Makun, which is named in the Guinness World Records 2017 as Nollywood’s highest domestic grossing film said, “I applaud Delta for bringing Nollywood to a new global audience. Our films are already popular in Africa but I’m looking forward to more film fans becoming lifelong Nollywood fans too.”

Delta’s in-flight entertainment system, Delta Studio, more than 1,000 hours of entertainment, including up to 300 movies, 750 TV shows, 100 foreign film titles, 2,400 songs, 18 channels of live satellite TV on select aircraft and a selection of games, podcasts, and audio books. The airline said that entertainment can also be watched in the palm of your hands thanks to on-demand Wi-Fi available on all flights, enabling a selection of films to be streamed to laptops as well as mobile and tablet devices.

Delta flies to four points in Africa, Accra, Ghana, Dakar, Senegal and Johannesburg, South Africa as well as Lagos, Nigeria.

It also has sales offices in a number of additional markets, including Kenya and Uganda.