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. In 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. 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. , Kenya Airways served 54 destinations, 44 of them in Africa.
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, .
CountryCityAirportNotesRefsAngolaLuandaQuatro de Fevereiro Airport BeninCotonouCadjehoun AirportBotswanaGaboroneSir Seretse Khama International AirportBurkina FasoOuagadougouThomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou BurundiBujumburaBujumbura International Airport CameroonDoualaDouala International AirportYaoundéYaoundé Nsimalen International Airport Central African RepublicBanguiBangui M'Poko International AirportChadN'DjamenaN'Djamena International AirportChinaBeijingBeijing Capital International AirportGuangzhouGuangzhou Baiyun International Airport ComorosMoroniPrince Said Ibrahim International Airport Democratic Republic of the CongoKinshasaN'djili Airport KisanganiKisangani Bangoka International Airport LubumbashiLubumbashi International Airport DenmarkCopenhagenCopenhagen AirportDjiboutiDjibouti CityDjibouti–Ambouli International Airport EgyptCairoCairo International Airport Equatorial GuineaMalaboMalabo International Airport EthiopiaAddis AbabaAddis Ababa Bole International Airport FranceParisCharles de Gaulle Airport Orly AirportGabonLibrevilleLéon-Mba International AirportGermanyFrankfurtFrankfurt AirportGhanaAccraAccra International Airport GreeceAthensEllinikon International AirportHong KongHong KongHong Kong International AirportIndiaDelhiIndira Gandhi International AirportMumbaiChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport ItalyMilanMilan Malpensa Airport RomeLeonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport Ivory CoastAbidjanFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport KenyaEldoretEldoret International AirportKisumuKisumu Airport LokichogioLokichogio AirportMalindiMalindi Airport MombasaMoi International Airport MumiasMumias AirportNairobiJomo Kenyatta International AirportLiberiaMonroviaRoberts International Airport MadagascarAntananarivoIvato International Airport MalawiBlantyreChileka International Airport LilongweKamuzu International Airport MaliBamakoBamako–Sénou International Airport MauritiusPort LouisSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport MayotteDzaoudziDzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport MozambiqueMaputoMaputo International Airport NampulaNampula Airport NetherlandsAmsterdamAmsterdam Airport Schiphol NigeriaAbujaNnamdi Azikiwe International AirportLagosMurtala Muhammed International Airport OmanMuscatMuscat International AirportPakistanKarachiJinnah International AirportRepublic of the CongoBrazzavilleMaya-Maya Airport RwandaKigaliKigali International Airport Saudi ArabiaJeddahKing Abdulaziz International AirportSenegalDakarBlaise Diagne International Airport Léopold Sédar Senghor International AirportSeychellesMahéSeychelles International Airport Sierra LeoneFreetownLungi International Airport SomaliaMogadishuAden Adde International Airport South AfricaCape TownCape Town International Airport JohannesburgO. R. Tambo International Airport South SudanJubaJuba International Airport SudanKhartoumKhartoum International Airport SwedenStockholmStockholm Arlanda AirportSwitzerlandGenevaGeneva Airport ZürichZurich AirportTanzaniaDar es SalaamJulius Nyerere International Airport KilimanjaroKilimanjaro International Airport ZanzibarAbeid Amani Karume International Airport ThailandBangkokSuvarnabhumi Airport TurkeyIstanbulAtatürk AirportUgandaEntebbeEntebbe International Airport United Arab EmiratesAbu DhabiAbu Dhabi International Airport DubaiDubai International Airport United KingdomBristolBristol AirportLondonGatwick Airport Heathrow Airport United StatesNew York CityJohn F. Kennedy International Airport VietnamHanoiNoi Bai International AirportZambiaLivingstoneHarry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport LusakaKenneth Kaunda International Airport NdolaNdola Airport ZimbabweHarareRobert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport Victoria FallsVictoria Falls Airport
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