KQ to launch low budget flight by year-end
Passengers alight from a Kenya Airways plane at Kisumu Airport. Photo/JACOB OWITI
What you need to know:
- Jambo Jet will operate air services for passengers and cargo within Kenya and other African countries
- Jambo Jet will operate six routes within Kenya and 16 routes in African
Kenya Airways has received a route license for its low cost carrier, Jambo Jet, as it prepares to launch the service before the end of the year.
The license granted by Kenya Civil Aviation Authority approves Jambo Jet to operate air services for passengers and cargo within Kenya and other African countries.
KQ is betting on the low budget subsidiary to contain the competition from other airlines including, Jet Link, Fly540 (which will operate across the continent under FastJet) and Air Kenya.
Jambo Jet will operate six routes within Kenya and 16 routes in African.
KQ will ply the routes using the B737 aircrafts, just eight years after it absorbed Flamingo Airlines, its then low-cost carrier in 2004.
The airline is to ply Wajir, Eldoret, Kisumu, Mombasa, Lamu and Malindi on the domestic front.
The 16 international routes include, Dar-es-salaam, Mwanza and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Entebbe (Uganda), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Zanzibar, Pemba, Antananarivo (Madagascar), Bujumbura (Burundi), Kigali (Rwanda), Hargeisa (Somaliland), Juba (South Sudan), Goma and Kisangani (Democratic Republic of Congo), Moroni and Dzaoudzi (Comoros Island).
