African Express Airways
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| Founded | 1986 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Aden Adde International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
| Destinations | 3[1] | ||||||
| Headquarters | Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya | ||||||
| Website | flyafricanexpress | ||||||
African Express Airways is a Somali-owned[2] Kenyan airline with its head office at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya.[3]
Services
[edit]African Express Airways is a short-haul airline, which caters to business and leisure travellers and operates daily departures. It also has an associate company located near its head offices, Jet Aircraft Maintenance Ltd., which specializes in jet aircraft maintenance ranging from 'A' to 'B', 'C' and 'D' checks for most medium-range aircraft of Western manufacture. The company has a new in situ hangar equipped with all facilities, including maintenance hangar rental services for third parties who may have their own engineers and approvals.
Destinations
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Current destinations
[edit]As of July 2024, African Express Airways operates services to the following domestic and international scheduled destinations:[1]
- Kenya
- Somalia
Former destinations
[edit]The airline previously also served the following airports:[4]
- Comoros
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Kenya
- Mombasa – Moi International Airport
- Eldoret – Eldoret International Airport
- Kisumu – Kisumu International Airport
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
Fleet
[edit]Current fleet
[edit]The African Express Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of July 2024):[6]
| Aircraft | Total | Orders | Passengers | ||
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| C | Y | Total | |||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 1 | — | 14 | 134 | 148 |
| Douglas DC-9-30 | 2 | — | 10 | 90 | 100 |
| Bombardier CRJ200LR | 1 | — | — | 50 | 50 |
| Total | 4 | — | |||
Former fleet
[edit]Accidents and incidents
[edit]- 4 May 2020: An East African Express Airways Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, registration number 5Y-AXO, on an air charter flight delivering pandemic relief supplies, crashed on approach to Berdale, Somalia, killing all 2 crew and 4 non-revenue passengers on board.[8] On 10 May, a leaked African Union peacekeeping force report alleged that ground troops of the Ethiopian National Defense Force who were operating outside the peacekeeping force's authority mistakenly concluded that the aircraft was engaged in a suicide attack and shot it down; this allegation ignited controversy over Ethiopian and Kenyan military incursions into Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab militants there. The three countries have initiated a joint investigation of the accident.[9]
- 31 March 2024: A Boeing 727-200 operated by Safe Air Company scheduled to fly from Juba International Airport to Malakal Airport, South Sudan, undershot the runway after experiencing technical issues. The plane collided into a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 belonging to African Express Airways, that had crashed around two months earlier in the same airport.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b africanexpress.net - Booking retrieved 19 July 2024
- ^ "Turkish airline launches landmark Mogadishu flight" (PDF). Arab Times. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
Several Somali airlines, including Kenya-based African Express, fly into Somalia from neighbouring nations,[...]
- ^ "Contact." African Express Airways. Retrieved on 6 April 2018. "Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya Embakasi – Airport North Road, JKIA P.O BOX 19202-00501 Nairobi, Kenya."
- ^ "December Flight Schedule". Archived from the original on 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1997935887079601&set=a.811444702395398
- ^ planespotters.net - African Express Airways Fleet Details and History retrieved 19 July 2024
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20090624044115/http://www.africanexpress.co.ke/fleet.htm
- ^ "Crash: East African Express E120 at Berdale on May 4th 2020, aircraft shot down by Ethiopian troops". The Aviation Herald. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Dahir, Abdi Latif (10 May 2020). "Ethiopian Troops May Have Shot Down Aid Plane in Somalia, Report Says". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Accident McDonnell Douglas MD-82 5Y-AXL". aviation-safety.net. Archived from the original on 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
External links
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