Daily JKIA – Lamu flights scaled back to just three per week. Read on to find out why!

JAMBOJET REDUCES LAMU FLIGHTS TO THREE A WEEK

(Posted 23rd May 2015)

Only two months after launching daily flights from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Lamu on the 28th of March this year, which are then returning via Malindi to Nairobi, have news emerged that Jambojet, Kenya Airways’ inhouse LCC, has apparently reduced the service to just three times a week.

Operated by a Bombardier Q400 will these flights now operate every Monday, Friday and Saturday, primarily serving weekend traffic to and from Nairobi.

It could not be established if this change will only apply to the present low season and if daily services will resume later in the year.

Demand for JKIA – Lamu flights, even in combination with Malindi, did according to a regular aviation source in Nairobi apparently not match the capacity of daily flights offered by Jambojet.

Kenya Airways also upped their flights from Nairobi to Malindi, using an Embraer E190 for their nonstop services, and it was therefore, according to a usually well informed source close to both airlines, just a matter of time before adjustments had to be made to the Jambojet schedule. The regular daily services out of Nairobi’s Wilson Airport by Safarilink and Air Kenya are continuing however without any changes though the aircraft type used may vary depending on the number of passengers booked.

Daily flights to Jambojet’s other new coast destination, Ukunda, in stark contrast, were on the 25th of April upped from one to two flights a day according to a media release by the airline at the time, when the airline’s CEO Willem Hondius was quoted saying: ‘As from coming Saturday (April 25), we will introduce a second daily frequency to Ukunda (Diani)’.

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