Английская Википедия:African Express Airways
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African Express Airways is a Somali-owned[1] Kenyan airline with its head office at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya.[2]
Services
African Express Airways is a short-haul airline, which caters to business and leisure travellers and operates daily departures. It also has an Associate Jet Aircraft Maintenance Company located near its head offices. Jet Aircraft Maintenance Ltd is a firm specialized in jet aircraft maintenance, which ranges 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
Current destinations
As of February 2021, African Express Airways operates services to the following domestic and international scheduled destinations:[3]
- Kenya
- Somalia
- Bosaso - Bosaso Airport
- Garowe - Garowe Airport
- Kismayo - Kismayo Airport
- Mogadishu - Aden Adde International Airport
- Hargeisa - Hargeisa International Airport
Former destinations
The airline previously also served the following airports:[4]
- Comoros
- Egypt
- Kenya
- Mombasa – Moi International Airport
- Eldoret – Eldoret International Airport
- Kisumu – Kisumu International Airport
- Somalia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
Fleet
Current fleet
The African Express Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of February 2021):[5]
| Aircraft | Total | Orders | Passengers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Y | Total | |||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 2 | — | 14 | 134 | 148 |
| Douglas DC-9-30 | 2 | — | 10 | 90 | 100 |
| Bombardier CRJ200LR | 1 | — | — | 50 | 50 |
| Total | 5 | — | |||
Former fleet
Accidents and incidents
- 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.[6] 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.[7]
See also
References
External links
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ "Contact." African Express Airways. Retrieved on 6 April 2018. "Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya Embakasi – Airport North Road, JKIA P.O BOX 19202-00501 Nairobi, Kenya."
- ↑ africanexpress.net - Booking retrieved 13 February 2021
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ planespotters.net - African Express Airways Fleet Details and History retrieved 13 February 2021
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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