- Passengers will require a Covid-19 free certificate.
- Kenya international flights will resume on Aug 1
Kenya’s Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development ministry has cleared eleven countries to resume international flights to on Saturday.
“These countries have mild or limited community transmission or declining incidences,” Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said.
The eleven are:
- China,
- South Korea,
- Japan,
- Canada,
- Zimbabwe,
- Ethiopia,
- France,
- Rwanda,
- Uganda,
- Namibia and
- Morroco
On Friday, Macharia updated the list to include the US (except for California, Florida and Texas), the United Kingdom, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Qatar, UAE, and Italy.
“Review of countries from which travellers will not be required to be quarantined upon arrival will be undertaken by the Ministry of Health on day to day basis,” Macharia said.
“Passengers arriving with flights after the curfew with a valid air ticket and boarding pass shall be allowed to their hotels or residences, drivers of those passengers should have evidence that they came to drop or pick up passengers,” said Macharia.
As part of COVID-19 regulations, passengers will be required to present PCR COVID-19 test attestations.
International carriers that have announced their intention to resume passenger services through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in August include British Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Qatar Airways and Air France.
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Kenya Airways, the country’s carrier will also resume international flights next month to 30 destinations.
They include flights along the Nairobi to London, Addis, Dar, Abidjan, Dakar, Douala, Dubai, Kigali, Lusaka, Harare routes.
Other flight destinations are to Accra, Amsterdam, Freetown, Juba, Zanzibar, Paris, Mumbai, Monrovia, Dzaoudzi, Johannesburg, Victoria Falls, and Cape Town.
According to KQ’s chief executive Allan Kilavuka, the Airline plans to start operations to the USA, China, and Thailand from October.
”We have been monitoring the adherence to the protocols that we have in place to ensure the health and safety of our customers and staff, and I am pleased that they are being enforced and followed strictly,” Kilavuka said.
On July 6, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the resumption of domestic flights starting July 15 under strict guidelines by the Ministry of Health and Transport.-
“This will be in strict conformity with all protocols from the Ministry of Health, local as well as international civil aviation authorities and any additional requirements applicable at the ports of departure arrival or transit,” the President said while lifting travel restrictions in Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera counties.
Updated July 31.
