African Express Airways is a Somali-owned Kenyan airline with its head office at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya."Contact." African Express Airways. Retrieved on 6 April 2018. "Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya Embakasi – Airport North Road, JKIA P.O BOX 19202-00501 Nairobi, Kenya."
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 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 aircraft brands. The company has a new in site 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 July 2024, African Express Airways operates services to the following domestic and international scheduled destinations:africanexpress.net - Booking retrieved 19 July 2024
Kenya Nairobi - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport base
Somalia Mogadishu - Aden Adde International Airport Hargeisa - Hargeisa International Airport
Yemen Seiyun - Seiyun Hadhramaut Airport
Former destinations The airline previously also served the following airports:
Comoros Moroni – Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport Djibouti Djibouti - Djibouti International Airport Egypt Cairo – Cairo International Airport Kenya Mombasa – Moi International Airport Eldoret – Eldoret International Airport Kisumu – Kisumu International Airport Somalia Berbera – Berbera Airport Bosaso - Bosaso Airport Garowe - Garowe Airport Kismayo - Kismayo Airport South Sudan Juba – Juba International Airport United Arab Emirates Dubai – Dubai International Airport Sharjah – Sharjah International Airport Yemen Aden – Aden International Airport Mukalla – Riyan Mukalla Airport
Fleet Current fleet , African Express Airways operates the following aircraft:
+ African Express Airways fleetAircraftTotalOrdersPassengersCYTotalDouglas DC-9-301—1090100Total1—
Former fleet , African Express Airways operated 1 Douglas DC-9 and 1 Bombardier CRJ200.
The airline also previously operated the following aircraft: 1 further Douglas DC-9-30 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia Boeing 727-200
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. 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. 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.
See also Airlines of Africa
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