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KQ former B777-300ER Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has formally unveiled plans to make its United States debut, using its own metal, in April 2018. In its application to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for exemption authority and a Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP), the Skyteam member carrier says that prior to the launch of said service, it plans to serve the United States via a codeshare agreement with what it termed, "a duly authorized and properly supervised U.S. or foreign air carrier". As such, the Kenyan national carrier has sought permission to engage in scheduled and charter foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail from any point or points behind Kenya, via any point or points in Kenya and any intermediate points, to any point or points in the United States and beyond. The application was made possible after Kenya secured a Category 1 rating under the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) International Aviatio

Jambo Jet Dash 8-Q400 Jambojet (JM, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has signed a lease agreement with the Ilyushin Finance Co. for two Dash 8-400s. The aircraft are sourced directly from the Russian lessor's Bombardier (BBA, Montréal Trudeau) order book. The first is due for delivery in May 2017 with the other due later in the year. The budget unit of Kenya Airways specializes in scheduled passenger flights throughout Kenya with service connecting Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta with each of Eldoret, Kisumu, Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, and Ukunda. Its fleet currently consists of two B737-300s and three Q400s (two of which are wet-leased from DAC East Africa (JX, Nairobi Wilson)). Prior to securing its own Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) in November last year, Jambojet operated as a division of Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) using its AOC. Source: https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/55527-kenyas-jambojet-to-lease-two-q400s-from-ifc

Air Peace B737 Allen Onyema, the chairman of Nigerian carrier Air Peace (P4, Lagos), has berated the governments of neighbouring West African states for their unwillingness to grant Nigerian airlines access to their markets. Speaking in Lagos this week, The Daily Trust newspaper says Onyema called on the Nigerian government to protect the country's airlines as it was in the national interest to assist them in branching into new markets. “Nigeria gave us right to fly into many African countries but we are only doing Ghana presently," he said. "Those other countries never wanted to answer our emails. We had to send people there. We went there pleading, they see Air Peace as a threat." Among the countries where Air Peace has encountered resistance to its services are the Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Togo. In the Ivory Coast, the chairman said that while his carrier had secured traffic rights, the fact that there is only one ground handling service at Abidjan