KENYA AIRWAYS LOW COST SUBSIDIARY JAMBOJET APPLIES FOR A DOZEN FOREIGN ROUTES
(Posted 28th February 2017)
After being snubbed by the licensing committee of the Kenyan Civil Aviation authorities the the last round, when Jambojet’s applications to become a designated airline on foreign routes, is the Kenya Airways’ low cost subsidiary giving it another try.
It is understood that the airline has sought to be granted permission to fly to Entebbe and at least ten other destinations in Africa though will have to increase their fleet size to accomplish that.
Over the past festive season did the airline end up in hot water with regulators and passengers over a tsunami of flight cancellations and involuntary re routings, something last week addressed by the airline’s CEO when he published an unprecedented open letter of apology.
Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro too are on the drawing board of Jambojet, as are Blantyre and Lilongwe in Malawi, all destinations already served by Kenya Airways.
In addition has the airline also requested licences to fly to Addis Ababa, Mogadishu and destinations in the DR Congo.
On the domestic scene has Jambojet applied for rights to add more destinations such as Wajir, Garissa and notably Vipingo, where at present only Safarilink flies to from Nairobi’s Wilson Airport. The Vipingo Ridge Golf Resort has its own hard surface runway and has become a popular departure point for Nairobi from residents of the surrounding Kilifi county towns of Mtwapa and Kilifi due to the cumbersome access route to Mombasa’s Moi International Airport.
