Friday 10 July 2015

Kenya: African Express Airways



African Express Airways is an airline based at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. It is a short-haul airline, which caters to business and leisure travellers and operates daily departures.

Destinations
African Express Airways operates services to the following domestic and international scheduled destinations:

Kenya
Nairobi - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (hub)
Wajir - Wajir Airport

Somalia
Berbera - Berbera Airport
Bosaso - Bender Qassim International Airport
Galkayo - Abdullahi Yusuf International Airport
Hargeisa - Hargeisa International Airport
Mogadishu - Aden Abdulle International Airport

United Arab Emirates
Dubai - Dubai International Airport
Sharjah - Sharjah International Airport

Yemen
Aden - Aden International Airport

African Express Airways has an Associate Jet Aircraft Maintenance Company located near its head offices. Jet Aircraft Maintenance Ltd is a firm specialized in jet aircraft maintenance, which ranges from 'A' to 'B', 'C' and 'D' checks for most medium-range aircraft of Western manufacture. The company has a new in situ hangar equipped with all facilities, including maintenance hangar rental services for third parties who may have their own engineers and approvals.

Ethnicity
At 96.55% of the local population, the region is predominantly inhabited by the Tigrinya speaking Tigray people. The Tigrinya langugae is classified as belonging to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Most other residents hail from other Afro-Asiatic speaking communities, including the Amhara, Irob, Afar, Agaw and Oromo. There are also a minority of Nilo-Saharan-speaking Kunama Nilotes.

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