Original Story Published by: Denis Gathanju for Avionics International
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(Above) Mount Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa.
Kenya today boasts one of the most developed air-travel systems on the African continent. The country has some of the best developed aviation infrastructure and operates one of the largest airlines on the continent.
Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is the de facto regional aviation and logistics hub for both passenger and cargo movement in the region.
This is further underlined by the launch of the first direct flights between the east coast of Africa and the east coast of mainland United States thanks to the newly launched direct flights by Kenya Airways now flying daily from Nairobi’s JKIA to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The aviation industry in Kenya has, over the past few years, undergone serious audits from both the FAA, in view of the launch of Kenya Airways’ direct flights to New York, and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). According to Capt. Gilbert Kibe, director general of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), the audits from both the FAA and ICAO had more than 1,300 protocol questions combined. The questions probed everything from aviation regulations to air crash investigations.
“This underscores the rigorous security and safety checks that we had to undergo to ensure that our airspace met global air safety standards,” he said. “Out of this audit, Kenya ranked at third position after Togo and South Africa on the continent.”
The KCAA is a government agency mandated under the Kenya Civil Aviation Act to regulate and oversee aviation safety and security within the Kenyan airspace.
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