Several flights that were scheduled to land at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) today Friday 17th September 2021 have been diverted to Mombasa.
According to Peter Wafula; the Mombasa International Airport Manager, the flights have been diverted due to bad weather being experienced at the JKIA area.
A quick check on flight radar indicates that five planes that were bound for Nairobi have been diverted to Mombasa.
The five include; a local Jambo Jet plane that was on route to Nairobi from Mombasa, 2 Kenya Airways planes from Lagos and Accra and an Egypt Air plane from Dar es Salam, Tanzania.
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According to Wafula, if the bad weather persists at JKIA, more planes will be diverted to Mombasa in the course of the day.
The diversion comes a week after a similar incident at Wilson airport in Nairobi, where all planes were diverted to JKIA owing to bad weather.
Wilson Airport majorly serves small and medium-sized aircrafts that operate locally and within the East African region.
The diversion mostly affected choppers, private planes, and small passenger and cargo aircrafts.
