Airkenya Express is an

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines ...

based in

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Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

. It operates domestic scheduled and charter services, as well as scheduled flights to

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. Its main base is

Wilson Airport Wilson Airport is an airport in Nairobi, Kenya. It has flights to many regional airports in Kenya while Nairobi's main airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, serves domestic and many international destinations. Location Wilson Airport ...

, Nairobi.

History

Airkenya Express was formed and started operations in 1987 from the merger of Air Kenya and Sunbird Aviation. The two companies had over 20 years of general aviation experience in East Africa. Airkenya Aviation became Airkenya Express in January 2007. The airline is wholly owned by a Kenyan-controlled consortium and has 165 employees. It carried 100,000 passengers in 2014, as against 120,000 in 2013. AirKenya has two wholly owned subsidiaries: Regional Air Services in

launched in 1997 and AeroLink in

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

launched in 2012.

Services

Airkenya Express Limited operates to the following airports (as of July 2021): Domestic scheduled destinations: *

Amboseli Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. It is in size at the core of an ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. It harbours 400 species ...

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Amboseli Airport Amboseli Airport is an airport in Kenya. Location Amboseli Airport is in Kajiado County, in Amboseli National Park, in south-central Kenya, close to the international border with the Republic of Tanzania. It is approximately , by air, south ...

) *

Lewa Downs The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (also known as Lewa Downs) is located in northern Kenya. It was formed in and is a wildlife sanctuary which together with the adjacent Ngare Ndare Forest covers over . The Conservancy is home to a wide variety of ...

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Lewa Airport Lewa Airport is an airport in Kenya. Location Lewa Airport is located in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, in Isiolo District, Eastern Province (Kenya). Its location is approximately , by air, north of Nairobi International Airport, the country's lar ...

) *

Maasai Mara Maasai Mara, sometimes also spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, th ...

(Keekorok, Kichwa, Musiara, Ngerende, Olekiombo, Serena, Shikar and Siana airstrips.) *

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( Mulika Lodge Airport) * Nairobi-Wilson *

Nanyuki Nanyuki is a market town in Laikipia County of Kenya lying northwest of Mount Kenya along the A2 road (Kenya), A2 road and at the terminus of the branch railway from Nairobi. The name is derived from Enyaanyukie Maasai word for resemblance. It ...

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Nanyuki Airport Nanyuki Airfield is an airport in Nanyuki, Kenya. Location Nanyuki Airfield, , is in Nanyuki, Laikipia County, in the Kenyan Great Rift Valley, Kenya, East Rift Valley. Located on the western foothills of Mount Kenya, it lies only , south of ...

) * Samburu (

Samburu Airport Samburu Airport is an airport in Samburu County, Kenya. Location Samburu Airport is located in Samburu National Reserve, Samburu County, Rift Valley Province, near the geographical center of the Republic of Kenya. Located , by air, north of ...

) International scheduled destinations: *

Kilimanjaro Mount Kilimanjaro () is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, at above sea level and above its plateau base. It is also the highest volcano i ...

(

Kilimanjaro International Airport Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) is in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. The airport serves the cities of Arusha and Moshi, Tanzania, Moshi. The airport handled 802,731 passengers in 2014 and serves mainly regional flights, an ...

)

Accidents and incidents

*In February 1992, Douglas DC-3C 5Y-BBN was written off at an airstrip in the

. The aircraft was scrapped ''

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'' in 1993.

Fleet

The Airkenya fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2017):

References

External links

* {{Airlines of Kenya Airlines of Kenya Airlines established in 1987 Companies based in Nairobi Kenyan companies established in 1987