Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is one of Kenya's large aviation facilities and the airport that serves the country with the most international flights. The airport's IATA Airport Code is NBO.
Located in Nairobi, Kenya, it is named after Kenyan leader Jomo Kenyatta, and it is the hub for Kenya Airways.
On 23 November, 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, which was on a Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Brazzaville-Lagos-Abidjan route, was hijacked after it entered Kenyan airspace. The hijackers demanded that the plane be flown to Australia, but the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in the Comoros Islands.
In 2000, a Kenya Airways plane heading to this airport crashed after take off from Côte d'Ivoire, killing 169 of the 179 passengers on board.
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- Aerotech
- African Airlines International
- African International
- Air Austral
- Air Botswana
- Air Djibouti
- Air France
- Air Gabon
- Air India
- Air Madagascar
- Air Malawi
- Air Mauritius
- Air Seychelles
- Air Tanzania
- Air Zambia
- Air Zimbabwe
- Alliance Air
- British Airways
- Cameroon Airlines
- Eagle Airways
- Egyptair
- El Al
- Emirates
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Gulf Air
- Iran Air
- KLM
- Kenya Airways
- Lufthansa
- Lufthansa CityLine
- Martinair
- Olympic Airways
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Royal Swazi National
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- South African Airways
- Sudan Airways
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Uganda Airlines
- Yemenia