There at last seems to be some good news for the Kenyan city of Mombasa as Turkish Airlines (TK) announced today that it would commence a 5x weekly, Boeing 737-900ER operated flight routed Istanbul (Turkey) - Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) - Mombasa (Kenya) - Istanbul effective 4 December. |
| Turkish Airlines Africa Network (Updated) |
Turkish Airlines: Istanbul – Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) – Mombasa (Kenya) – Istanbul
-Effective 4 December 2012
- TK673 IST 1810 – 0155+1 JRO 0255+1 – 0355+1 MBA 0500+1 – 1045+1 IST 739 | 12467
In the last few months, Mombasa has seen the withdrawal of various international airlines from the coastal city for one reason or another, the latest being Brussels Airlines (SN) who dropped their Brussels - Nairobi - Mombasa flight before it even started.
Kilimanjaro instead, is reaping the fruits of its USD30million investment into an infrastructural upgrade that has since rendered the airport open to larger, heavier aircraft than before.