List of Kenya Airways destinations explained

Kenya Airways was established by the Government of Kenya on 22 January 1977, following the collapse of the East African Union and the consequent folding of East African Airways. It first flew on 4 February 1977 servicing the London–Nairobi route with a Boeing 707–321 leased from British Midland Airways. A year later, the airline network comprised five domestic and 16 international destinations. At July 1980, the airline's international network consisted of Addis Ababa, Athens, Bombay, Cairo, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Jeddah, Kampala, Karachi, Khartoum, London, Lusaka, Mauritius, Mogadishu, Rome, Salisbury, Seychelles and Zürich; four Kenyan cities (Kisumu, Malindi, Mombasa and Mumias) were also served.

In, the carrier announced the suspension of services to Rome and Muscat as part of cost-cutting measures following a 50% fall in profit for FY2011/12.^[1] Abuja was added to the network in . Delhi was terminated in . In July 2016, the route to Livingstone, Zambia was extended to Cape Town, South Africa.^[2], Kenya Airways served 54 destinations, 44 of them in Africa.^[3]

In October 2018, Kenya Airways became the fifth African airline to serve the US market when a route to New York–JFK was inaugurated.

List

The following are current and former Kenya Airways' scheduled destinations, .^[4]

Country	City	Airport	Notes	Refs
Angola	Luanda	Quatro de Fevereiro Airport
Benin	Cotonou	Cadjehoun Airport		^[5]
Botswana	Gaborone	Sir Seretse Khama International Airport		^[6]
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou		^[7]
Burundi	Bujumbura	Bujumbura International Airport
Cameroon	Douala	Douala International Airport
	Yaoundé	Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
Central African Republic	Bangui	Bangui M'Poko International Airport		^[8]
Chad	N'Djamena	N'Djamena International Airport		^[9]
China	Guangzhou	Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport		^[10]
Comoros	Moroni	Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	N'djili Airport
	Kisangani	Kisangani Bangoka International Airport
	Lubumbashi	Lubumbashi International Airport
Denmark	Copenhagen	Copenhagen Airport		^[11]
Djibouti	Djibouti City	Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport
Egypt	Cairo	Cairo International Airport
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	Malabo International Airport
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
France	Paris	Charles de Gaulle Airport
		Orly Airport
Gabon	Libreville	Léon-Mba International Airport		^[12]
Germany	Frankfurt	Frankfurt Airport
Ghana	Accra	Kotoka International Airport
Greece	Athens	Ellinikon International Airport		^[13]
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Hong Kong International Airport		^[14]
India	Delhi	Indira Gandhi International Airport
	Mumbai	Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
Italy	Milan	Milan Malpensa Airport		^[15]
	Rome	Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport		^[16] ^[17]
Ivory Coast	Abidjan	Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport
Kenya	Eldoret	Eldoret International Airport		^[18] ^[19]
	Kisumu	Kisumu Airport
	Lokichogio	Lokichogio Airport
	Malindi	Malindi Airport		^[20] ^[21]
	Mombasa	Moi International Airport
	Mumias	Mumias Airport
	Nairobi	Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Liberia	Monrovia	Roberts International Airport
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Ivato International Airport
Malawi	Blantyre	Chileka International Airport
	Lilongwe	Kamuzu International Airport
Mali	Bamako	Bamako–Sénou International Airport
Mauritius	Port Louis	Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport		^[22]
Mayotte	Dzaoudzi	Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport
Mozambique	Maputo	Maputo International Airport
	Nampula	Nampula Airport
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Nigeria	Abuja	Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
	Lagos	Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Oman	Muscat	Muscat International Airport
Pakistan	Karachi	Jinnah International Airport
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	Maya-Maya Airport
Rwanda	Kigali	Kigali International Airport
Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	King Abdulaziz International Airport		^[23]
Senegal	Dakar	Blaise Diagne International Airport
		Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
Seychelles	Mahé	Seychelles International Airport
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Lungi International Airport
Somalia	Mogadishu	Aden Adde International Airport		^[24]
South Africa	Cape Town	Cape Town International Airport
	Johannesburg	O. R. Tambo International Airport
South Sudan	Juba	Juba International Airport
Sudan	Khartoum	Khartoum International Airport
Sweden	Stockholm	Stockholm Arlanda Airport		^[25]
Switzerland	Geneva	Geneva Airport
	Zürich	Zurich Airport
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Julius Nyerere International Airport
	Kilimanjaro	Kilimanjaro International Airport
	Zanzibar	Abeid Amani Karume International Airport		^[26]
Thailand	Bangkok	Suvarnabhumi Airport		^[27]
Turkey	Istanbul	Atatürk Airport		^[28]
Uganda	Entebbe	Entebbe International Airport
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi International Airport		^[29]
	Dubai	Dubai International Airport
United Kingdom	Bristol	Bristol Airport
	London	Heathrow Airport		^[30]
United States	New York City	John F. Kennedy International Airport		^[31] ^[32] ^[33]
Vietnam	Hanoi	Noi Bai International Airport
Zambia	Livingstone	Livingstone Airport
	Lusaka	Kenneth Kaunda International Airport
	Ndola	Ndola Airport
Zimbabwe	Harare	Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
	Victoria Falls	Victoria Falls Airport		^[34]

Footnotes

References

External links

• • Web site: Route Map . Kenya Airways . https://web.archive.org/web/20130622225747/http://www.kenya-airways.com/Home/Plan_and_Book/Destination_Guide/Route_Map/Route_Map/ . 22 June 2013 . dead .

Notes and References

1. News: Kenya amends flight schedules to optimize capacity . Anne . Paylor . 18 June 2012 . Air Transport World . https://web.archive.org/web/20130723095615/http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/news/kenya-amends-flight-schedules-optimize-capacity-0618 . 23 July 2013 . 19 June 2012 . dead .
2. Web site: Kenya Airways Adds Cape Town Flights from July 2016 . Routesonline . 21 April 2016 . 28 April 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160710140555/http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/254366/kenya-airways-adds-cape-town-flights-from-july-2016/ . 10 July 2016 .  
3. Web site: Kenya Airways and JamboJet sign Codeshare Agreement . 11 October 2016 . Kenya Airways.
4. Web site: Flight Timetable. Kenya Airways. 19 January 2014.
5. Web site: Kenya Airways discontinues Douala / Cotonou service in mid-Oct 2019. Routesonline.
6. Web site: Kenya Airways ends Abuja / Gaborone service from Nov 2016.
7. Kenya Airways commences flights to Ouagadougou . 15 July 2011 . Kenya Airways . https://web.archive.org/web/20120713011305/http://www.kenya-airways.com/Home/Corporate_Information/Press_Releases/Current_Press_Releases/Kenya_Airways_commences_flights_to_Ouagadougou/?dis=y . 13 July 2012 . 29 June 2012 . dead .
8. Web site: AeroRoutes. 24 July 2024. Kenya Airways discontinues Bangui; Douala service changes from Aug 2024.
9. Kenya Airways . 21 June 2011 . Kenya Airways Inaugural Flight to Ndjamena Takes off . https://web.archive.org/web/20120713005611/http://www.kenya-airways.com/Home/Corporate_Information/Press_Releases/Current_Press_Releases/Kenya_Airways_Inaugural_Flight_to_Ndjamena_Takes_off/?dis=y . 13 July 2012 . 29 June 2012 . dead .
10. News: Duclos . François . Kenya Airways en direct entre Nairobi et Guangzhou . French . Kenya Airways direct flight between Nairobi and Guangzhou . Air Journal . 1 October 2013 . https://archive.today/20131004004512/http://www.air-journal.fr/2013-10-01-kenya-airways-en-direct-entre-nairobi-et-guangzhou-585643.html . 4 October 2013 . dead .
11. World Airline Directory – Kenya Airways [KQ] (KQA). Flight International. 90. 4–10 April 2000. 27 March 2011.
12. Web site: 2019-09-19. Kenya Airways cuts Libreville and Cotonou.
13. World Airline Directory – Kenya Airways. Flight International. 99. 14–20 March 1990. 27 March 2011.
14. Web site: Kenya Airways says farewell to Hong Kong and Hanoi. Business Traveller.
15. Web site: Kenya Airways debutta a Malpensa. Voli Milano-Nairobi. 21 May 2021.
16. Kenya Airways Announces Schedule Changes . Kenya Airways . 12 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121115021902/http://kenya-airways.com/Home/Corporate_Information/Press_Releases/Current_Press_Releases/Kenya_Airways_Announces_Schedule_Changes/?dis=y . 15 November 2012 . 19 June 2012 . dead .
17. Web site: Kenya Airways resumes Rome / Geneva service in June 2019. Routesonline.
18. Kenya Airways . 30 May 2012 . Kenya Airways strengthens regional presence with new flights to Kilimanjaro and Eldoret . https://web.archive.org/web/20120610003034/http://www.kenya-airways.com/Home/Corporate_Information/Press_Releases/Current_Press_Releases/Kenya_Airways_strengthens_regional_presence_with_new_flights_to_Kilimanjaro___Eldoret/?dis=y . 10 June 2012 . dead .
19. Kenya Airways to cease its operations to/from Nairobi (NBO) Eldoret (EDL) . . 6 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212357/http://www.kenya-airways.com/uploadedFiles/operations%20nairobi%20eldoret.pdf . 12 March 2014 . dead.
20. Web site: Kenya Airways cedes Malindi route to subsidiary Jambojet - Travel News - eTurboNews. 29 July 2016.
21. Web site: Kenya Airways resumes Malindi service from June 2019. Routesonline.
22. Web site: Kenya Airways launches four weekly direct lights to Mauritius. The Star.
23. Web site: Kenya Airways halts flights to Jeddah . 17 July 2018 . Tourism Update.
24. Web site: Kenya Airways resumes Mogadishu service from Feb 2024. 23 November 2023. aeroroutes.com.
25. World Airline Directory – Kenya Airways. Flight International. 1–7 April 1998. 70. PDF. 12 June 2011.
26. News: Airline Routes . . 24 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140627162152/http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/airline-routes-24 . 27 June 2014 . Kenya Airways has reintroduced 5X-weekly Nairobi-Zanzibar service and will go to daily service next month. . dead .
27. Web site: 4 August 2023. Kenya Airways resumes Bangkok service from late Nov-2023. aeroroutes.com.
28. Web site: Corporate Information – History . Kenya Airways . https://web.archive.org/web/20120613230105/http://www.kenya-airways.com/Home/Corporate_Information/About_Kenya_Airways/History/ . 13 June 2012 . 29 June 2012 . dead .
29. Web site: Kenya Airways Ends Abu Dhabi Service from mid-Feb 2014 . Airline Route . 18 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140218123655/http://airlineroute.net/2014/02/18/kq-auh-feb14cxld/ . 18 February 2014 .  
30. Web site: Kenya Airways NW23 London Service Expansion .
31. Web site: Wanjohi. John. 2020-07-23. Kenyans in the US, Canada Lament as KQ Cancels Direct Flights to New York. 2021-06-27. Mwakilishi.com.
32. Web site: Kenya Airways Nov 2020 International Operations as of 19OCT20. Airlineroute. 20 October 2020. 20 October 2020.
33. Web site: Theuri. Peter. 2020-11-30. Kenya Airways resumes direct flights to New York. 2021-06-27. The Standard.
34. Web site: Kenya Airways moves Vic Fals launch . www.newzimbabwe.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170422033908/http://www.newzimbabwe.com/business-36798-Kenya+Airways+moves+Vic+Fals+launch/business.aspx . 2017-04-22.