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| Founded | 1986 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Aden Adde International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
| Destinations | 3 [1] | ||||||
| Headquarters | Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya | ||||||
| Website | flyafricanexpress | ||||||
African Express Airways is a Somali-owned [2] Kenyan airline with its head office at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya. [3]
African Express Airways is a short-haul airline, which caters to business and leisure travellers and operates daily departures. It also has an associate company located near its head offices, Jet Aircraft Maintenance Ltd., which specializes in jet aircraft maintenance ranging 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.
. This aircraft crashed after being shot down.
As of July 2024, African Express Airways operates services to the following domestic and international scheduled destinations: [1]
The airline previously also served the following airports: [4]
The African Express Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of July 2024): [6]
| Aircraft | Total | Orders | Passengers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Y | Total | |||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 1 | — | 14 | 134 | 148 |
| Douglas DC-9-30 | 2 | — | 10 | 90 | 100 |
| Bombardier CRJ200LR | 1 | — | — | 50 | 50 |
| Total | 4 | — | |||
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