GERMANY’S CONDOR ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF MUNICH TO MOMBASA FLIGHTS
(Posted 01st July 2015)
Condor, one of Germany’s main holiday charter airlines, has indicated that they will resume nonstop flights between Munich and Mombasa in July, over and above their existing flights from Frankfurt to Mombasa.
As the main German school summer vacations are now going underway is demand for travel expected to peak over the coming months. Kenya remained popular with German visitors while many other nationalities saw their market share drop. In particular did Britain halt charter flights last year in the wake of sharpish UK anti-travel advisories, something the German government did not copy, leaving Condor free to continue with their, albeit reduced flights.
Condor has a long history of flights to Mombasa, in the old days of the 1970’s using a Boeing B727 with several fuel stops enroute but also operating their Boeing B707’s, Boeing B747’s, McDonald Douglas DC10’s and more recently the Boeing B767’s.
Condor has over the past few years operated charter flights to Mombasa in conjunction with Zanzibar and it remains to be seen which of their services will continue to combine the two destinations and which will offer a straight nonstop turnaround flights to Mombasa.
Apart from charter flights from key European airports is Mombasa served by Turkish Airlines and Ethiopian, connecting from their respective hub airports in Istanbul and Addis Ababa, while from the region it is RwandAir which flies from Kigali three times a week to the Kenyan coast in conjunction with their daily services to Dubai.
From Nairobi it is Kenya Airways, their LCC subsidiary Jambojet and one or two other airlines offering domestic flights to the coast’s main airport.
