MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Kenya Airways is expected to resume its flights to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in forthcoming days after the carrier secured permits.
In a statement, Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz said the airline had entered an agreement with ALS, a Kenyan company that provides insurance and air leasing services to other airlines to start flying Mogadishu route.
“This arrangement covers the hire of an aircraft including the provision of a flight crew, maintenance, and insurance,” he said in a statement.
“Kenya Airways has previously worked with ALS in a similar arrangement flying from Nairobi to Lokichogio.”
The daily nonstop flights will be leaving JKIA at 1:00 pm to arrive in Mogadishu at 1:45 pm local time. It is then expected to depart Aden Adde International Airport, Mogadishu at 3:50 pm to come back in Nairobi at 5:35 pm.
According to Daily Nation, the airline will fly Embraer 145 plane which has a capacity of 50 passengers.
The development comes barely a day Qatar Airways announced its bid to restart its operations in Somalia after Somali Prime minister visited Doha last week.
Akbar Al Baker, the CEO of Qatar Airways said the airlines would resume its flights 1st July 2019.
Ethiopian Airlines plane landed in Mogadishu last month for the first time in four decades.
Somalia and Ethiopia halted all flights halted in the 1970s after the two countries engaged in a deadly war over a border dispute.
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