Kenya Airways diverts select JKIA flights over fog

Kenya Airways (KQ) announced on Thursday it had diverted some of its flights scheduled to land at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) due to poor visibility.

Heavy fog engulfed most of the capital in the morning, and KQ said some of the flights to East Africa’s busiest airport were redirected to Mombasa and Kilimanjaro.

“As a result, we expect some delays today for certain flight departures and arrivals,” the airline said in a customer update some minutes past 10 a.m.

JKIA is the main gateway into Kenya, handling 8.8 million passengers and 380,000 tonnes of cargo in 2022-23.

It is the hub of KQ, which it serves alongside other airlines such as Emirates, Turkish Airways, British Airways and Ethiopian Airlines.