Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is a beloved part of Kenya’s heritage, and carries one of Kenya’s most recognizable acronyms – JKIA. It has facilitated transport of Kenyan citizens, products, and leaders, both dead and alive. Its strategic placement along the popular Mombasa Road (A104), and right next to the famous Nairobi National Park has…

An airplane covered in blue and white, much like what you get when you view the flat snow-covered top of Mt Kilimanjaro against a cloudless sky background. They call it “The Wings of Kilimanjaro”. That’s Air Tanzania, popularly referred to locally as Kampuni ya Ndege ya Tanzania! To understand how Air Tanzania actually exists, we…

Uganda Airlines is the plane with a crane on its tail, hence its callsign “Crested“. It operates from its company headquarters at Entebbe International Airport (ICAO: HUEN, IATA: EBB), right on the shores of Lake Victoria. It is a very colourful company as evidenced by its livery, which mirrors the colours of the national flag…

Kenya Airways Flight KQ784 suffered a tyre burst incident upon landing at South Africa’s Cape Town International Airport (ICAO: FACT, IATA: CPT) Runway 19 on the afternoon of 4th August 2026. In an update released by the airline’s Corporate Communications Department, it confirmed that the aircraft had departed Nairobi on a scheduled service and landed…