Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) has been ranked as one of the busiest airports in Africa.
The latest report by Airports Council International has ranked the Nairobi facility as the fourth busiest airport in the continent.
Johannesburg International Airport (South Africa) has been named the busiest airport in Africa, handling at least 281 passenger flights on average per day.
Cairo International Airport (Egypt) and Bole International Airport in Ethiopia are ranked second and third busiest airports in the region.
Nairobi’s JKIA and South Africa’s Cape Town International Airport close the list of top five airports with highest operations.
Airports Council International used the total number of passenger flights and direct-transit passengers to rank the facilities.
JKIA is the largest airport in Kenya and currently handles around 126 passenger flights daily, the report shows.
The national carrier, Kenya Airways is the largest airline at the airport with about 462 scheduled take-offs every week.
The airport was granted Category One status in 2017 and attained the Last Point of Departure status in 2018, allowing Kenya Airways and other airlines to fly directly to the United States.
Interesting to hear what…
Interesting to hear what Kenya haters here have to say about this.
Why is Ethiopia ahead of us?…
Why is Ethiopia ahead of us? Me believes Kenya has had the capacity to be the Japan of Africa all along. It should be the largest economy in Africa, by far. Give it to me for 10-20 years
Ethiopia is the only country…
Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that has less than 500 km of optic fiber backbone and less than 50 gigabits of international Internet bandwidth ! Kenya has got 25 000 km and 1 000 gigas and many buziness schools with well rated masters while Ethiopia has indeed no one..
On arrival at JKIA the other…
On arrival at JKIA the other day, we found four customs and passports control desks in operation. Two for non-citizen and two for citizens. On this flight there were more non citizens than citizens. So the citizens were served quickly and left. The games then began. These customs guys closed all but one desk and started asking all for bribes. Somalis know the drill so they lined up ready to pay and the rest of the people just stood there in confusion!!! I was traveling with a non citizen and I waited for almost one hour for them. Lucky for them, a Kenyan holding a foreign passport spoke up, yelling at them in Swahili and the customs guys reopened one other desk and the long line started moving. Nairobi JKIA is very strategically placed compared to the neighbouring countries and I can only hope we are not going to squander this opportunity we have in East Africa.
They started asking all for…
They started asking all for a bribe, openly?…Even the kenya police don’t do that. Next time videotape them and share with us.
I have to say there has been…
I have to say there has been major improvements in the last 5 years alone, let’s give credit where it’s due.
Kenya Airways does a good…
Kenya Airways does a good job with its Embraers towards coastal East african cities, Jo’burg and Cape Town airports are rated in this top 5 only because there is no train noor complete motirway between these two cities, i dupose that Madaraka express had cut some PAX to the airlines and the future motorway Nairobi-Mombasa will cut more air traffic.
I have some doubt about this ranking i think the busiest international lines are Paris-Casablanca, Paris-Algiers and Cairo-Jedda 2 millions PAX all of them followed by Jo’burg-London 0,5 million. I am sur that ALG and CMN are more actif than CPT, only RAM operates 150 daily depatures from CMN and the moroccan hub receives about 50 other Companies.