Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ( IATA : NBO , ICAO : HKJK ) is a joint-based airport serving civilian cities of Nairobi ( Kenya ). Located 15 kilometers southeast of the central part of the city. The airport’s regular transport route network connects Nairobi with more than fifty cities in other countries [2] . It is the main transit hub ( hub ) of the national air carrier Kenya Airways and the low-cost airline Kenya Fly540 .
| Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | |||||||
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| IATA : NBO - ICAO : HKJK | |||||||
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| Type of | co-based | ||||||
| A country | Kenya | ||||||
| Location | Nairobi | ||||||
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| Operator | Kenya Airport Management | ||||||
| NUM height | +1624 m | ||||||
| Working hours | round the clock | ||||||
| Site | Official site | ||||||
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| Annual passenger flow | 5 803 635 people (2011) [1] | ||||||
The airport got its official name in honor of the first president and prime minister of the country, Jomo Kenyata .
In 2011, 5,803,635 people used the services of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport [1] ; in terms of passenger traffic, the port took ninth place among all commercial airports in Africa .
Content
History
The official opening of Embakashi Airport took place on March 9, 1958. The ceremony was to be led by Queen Mother Elizabeth , but at the same time she was in Australia and was unable to attend the ceremony [3] , so the last Kenyan metropolitan governor Sir Evelyn Baring [ solemnly] opened the airport. [4]
Kenya gained independence in 1964, after which the air harbor was renamed Nairobi International Airport . In 1972, the World Bank approved a loan for a program to modernize and expand airport infrastructure, including the construction of a new passenger terminal, the construction of the first cargo terminal, new taxiways, police and fire services, and the reconstruction of access roads to the terminals. The total project cost amounted to 29 million US dollars (111 818 078 dollars in terms of prices of August 2013) [5] . On March 14, 1978, the current passenger terminal was put into operation, with President Jomo Kenyata at the head of the opening ceremony [6] . On August 22, 1978, the port changed its official name in honor of the first president of Kenya.
On August 5, 2013, an air congestion formed in the airport’s main fuel line. As a result, the port was closed for the reception and departure of all aircraft; about a thousand passengers were accommodated for overnight stays in neighboring hotels. By the morning of the next day the problem was fixed and the airport started operating normally [7] .
On August 7, 2013, a severe fire broke out in the immigration area of the departure hall, quickly spreading to the arrival hall of international lines. The airport was closed, arriving in Nairobi aircraft redirected to other airports in Kenya, mainly to Mombasa [8] .
Terminal
The former passenger terminal, located on the north side of the runway , is operated by the Kenyan Air Force and is often called the "Embakashi Old Airport" [9] .
The building of the modern passenger terminal is built in the form of a semicircle and consists of three sections: the first and second sections serve international flights for departure and arrival, the third section is used for domestic flights [10] . The commissioning of the fourth section of the passenger terminal was scheduled for the end of 2013, however, due to the need to eliminate the consequences of the fire on August 7, the deadlines for the commissioning of the new facility will most likely be reviewed.
Airlines and Destinations
Passenger
| Airline | Destinations |
|---|---|
| African Express Airways | Aden , Berbera , Bosaso , Dubai , Entebbe , Galkayo , Mogadishu , Mombasa , Moroni , Sharjah |
| Air arabia | Sharjah |
| Air austral | Saint Denis La Reunion |
| Air mauritius | Mauritius |
| Air uganda | Entebbe |
| British airways | London (Heathrow) |
| Brussels airlines | Brussels |
| Condor | Frankfurt |
| Daallo airlines | Djibouti , Mogadishu |
| EgyptAir | Cairo |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Ethiopian airlines | Addis Ababa |
| Etihad airways | Abu Dhabi |
| Fly540 | Dar es Salaam , Eldoret , Juba , Kisumu , Lamu , Lodwar , Malindi , Mombasa , Zanzibar seasonal : Kitale |
| Jubba airways | Mogadishu |
| Kenya airways | Abidjan , Abu Dhabi , Kotoka , Addis Ababa , Amsterdam (Schiphol) , Antananarivo , Bamako , Bangkok (Suvannapum) , Bangui , Beira , Blantyre , Brazzaville , Bujumbura , Cairo , Kotonou , Dakar , Dar es Salaam , Dar es Salaam Indira Gandhi) , Djibouti , Douala , Dubai , Dzaoudzi , Eldoret , Entebbe , Freetown , Gaborone , Guangzhou (Baiyun) , Harare , Hong Kong , Jeddah , Johannesburg , Juba , Khartoum , Kigali , Kilimanjaro , Kinshwaegos Lum , Kis , Livingston [11] , London (Heathrow) , Luanda , Lubumbashi , Lusaka , Seychelles , Malindi , Maputo , Mombasa , Monrovia , Moroni , Mumbai , N'Djamena , Nampula , Ndola , Ouagadougou , Paris (Charles de Gaulle) , Yaounde Seasonal : Beirut |
| Klm | Amsterdam (Schiphol) |
| Korean air | Seoul (Incheon) |
| LAM Mozambique Airlines | Maputo , Pemba |
| Nasair ritrea | Asmara [12] |
| Precision air | Dar es Salaam , Kilimanjaro , Mwanza , Zanzibar |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Rwandair | Kigali |
| Saudia | Jeddah |
| South african airways | Johannesburg |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zurich |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul (Ataturk) |
| Yemenia | Sanaa |
Freight
| Airline | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air france cargo | Paris (Charles de Gaulle) [13] |
| Astral aviation | Dar es Salaam , Entebbe , Juba , Kigali , Mogadishu , Mwanza [14] |
| British Airways World Cargo | London (Stansted) [15] |
| Cargolux | Amsterdam (Schiphol) , Luxembourg , Maastricht / Aachen , Kent [16] |
| EgyptAir Cargo | Cairo [17] |
| Emirates SkyCargo | Amsterdam (Schiphol) , Dubai [18] |
| Etihad Crystal Cargo | Abu Dhabi , Amsterdam (Schiphol) [19] |
| Lufthansa Cargo | Frankfurt , Johannesburg [20] [21] |
| Martinair Cargo | Amsterdam (Schiphol) , Johannesburg [22] |
| Qatar Airways Cargo | Liege [23] |
| Saudia cargo | Amsterdam (Schiphol) , Jeddah [24] [25] |
| Singapore Airlines Cargo | Amsterdam (Schiphol) [26] |
| Turkish Airlines Cargo | Istanbul (Ataturk) , Johannesburg [27] |
Accidents
- November 20, 1974. Lufthansa's Boeing 747-130 (registration D-ABYB), following a regular flight LH540 from Frankfurt to Johannesburg with an intermediate landing in Nairobi , crashed on take-off from strip 24 of Nairobi airport due to a crew error that did not set flaps for takeoff configuration. Killed 59 people out of 157 on board. The first crash of the Boeing 747 with human casualties.
- May 17, 1989. Interrupted take-off of Boeing 707-330B of Somali Airlines . The plane rolled out over the runway and stopped at a neighboring rice field. Onboard there were 70 passengers and crew members, no injuries were reported [28] .
- December 4, 1990. Sudania Air Cargo, a Boeing 707-321C (ST-SAC registration) airline, while landing at Nairobi Airport on runway 06 hit a telegraph pole five kilometers from the end of the strip, fell to the ground and caught fire. Killed all 10 people on board the aircraft. During the crash, visibility in the airport area was 500 meters, fog, low cloud cover up to 30 meters [29] .
- June 6, 2012. During the landing of the Airbus A320 airline EgyptAir , performing a regular flight 849 from Cairo , the wheel of the main landing gear burst, as a result of which the airliner moved off the runway. The port was closed for several hours, arriving flights were redirected to other airports in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. On board the aircraft were 123 people, no injuries were reported [30] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Africa's Top 17 Busiest Airports (2011) (Link not available) . Date of treatment August 7, 2013. Archived August 10, 2013.
- ↑ Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO) flight index . Date of treatment August 7, 2013.
- ↑ Nairobi Embakasi
- ↑ Nairobi's New Airport . Date of treatment August 7, 2013.
- ↑ Nairobi Airport Project . The World Bank. Date of treatment August 7, 2013.
- ↑ ETurboNews unopened (November 15, 2012). Date of treatment August 7, 2013.
- ↑ “KENYA: Mass delays at Nairobi JKIA after pipeline fault starves airport of Jet A1”, The African Aviation Tribune , 6 August 2013
- ↑ “Kenya scrambles to limit economic fallout from massive airport fire”, Los Angeles Times , reported by Nicholas Soi and Robyn Dixon, August 7, 2013
- ↑ “The Creation of an African Aviation Epicenter”, AviationPros.com , reported by Denis Maina Gathanju, 1 May 2004
- ↑ Facts and Figures - Nairobi, Kenya Airports Authority , December 9, 2012 (unavailable link) . Date of treatment August 8, 2013. Archived on January 6, 2014.
- ↑ Kenya Airways: une nouvelle route vers la Zambie , Air Journal ( 2013-3-16.08 . 2019 ). Archived March 19, 2013.
- ↑ Nasair flight UE 202: Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi - Asmara via Juba , Flightmapper.net. Date of treatment August 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Air France (AF) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ "Astral Aviation (8V) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ "British Airways (BA) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ "Cargolux (CV) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ EgyptAir Cargo (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment August 11, 2013. Archived December 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Emirates (EK) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ Etihad Crystal Cargo Schedule (link not available) . Date of treatment August 11, 2013. Archived on April 26, 2014.
- ↑ LCAG Flight Schedule XLS, Lufthansa Cargo, August 9, 2013 (link not available) . Date of treatment August 11, 2013. Archived December 30, 2005.
- ↑ "Lufthansa (LH) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ "Martinair (MP) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ "Qatar Airways comes to Liege Airport", Air Cargo World , April 24, 2013 (link not available) . Date of treatment August 11, 2013. Archived May 16, 2013.
- ↑ 2013 Summer Freighter Schedule effective 01 Aug 13 - Africa & MENAT, Saudia Cargo, 1 August 2013
- ↑ Saudia Cargo adds Amsterdam and Nairobi to network , Air Cargo News (December 1, 2012).
- ↑ "Singapore Airlines (SQ) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ "Turkish Airlines (TK) flights from Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi (NBO)", FlightMapper.net, accessed 9 August 2013
- ↑ Accident description, Aviation Safety Network , 17 May 1989
- ↑ Accident Description . Aviation Safety Network. Date of treatment August 8, 2013.
- ↑ Kenya Reopens Nairobi Airport After EgyptAir Plane Removed Bloomberg Businessweek (June 6, 2012). Date of treatment August 7, 2013.
Links
- Kenya Airports Authority - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
- HKJK airport information from World Aero Data.
- Current weather for HKJK on NOAA / NWS
- NBO Airport Incident History at Aviation Safety Network