{"id":227821,"date":"2026-05-10T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/227821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:56:14","slug":"kenya-airways-diverts-two-flights-after-fog-disrupts-visibility-at-jkia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/227821\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Airways diverts two flights after fog disrupts visibility at JKIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/24cadb10-f046-44d8-be19-c083685437d5.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>KQ plane\/ FILE<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Airways has confirmed that two&#13;<br \/>\nof its regional flights were temporarily diverted on Sunday morning due to&#13;<br \/>\nreduced visibility caused by fog at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the airline said&#13;<br \/>\nFlight KQ739 from Lilongwe and Flight KQ709 from Harare were redirected to Kilimanjaro&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Airport as a safety precaution after poor visibility affected&#13;<br \/>\nlanding operations at JKIA.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said both aircraft later&#13;<br \/>\nsafely returned and landed in Nairobi after weather conditions improved.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Airways noted that the&#13;<br \/>\ndiversions caused a number of delays affecting regional routes, adding that&#13;<br \/>\nefforts were underway to minimise disruptions to passengers\u2019 travel plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following improvement in weather conditions and visibility in Nairobi,&#13;<br \/>\nboth flights safely returned and landed at JKIA.\u00a0The diversions have resulted in a few delays only affecting our&#13;<br \/>\nregional routes.\u00a0We are actively working to minimise&#13;<br \/>\ndisruption to our schedule and support affected guests through regular&#13;<br \/>\ncommunication updates and alternative travel arrangements where applicable,\u201d&#13;<br \/>\nthe airline said.<\/p>\n<p>The national carrier apologised to&#13;<br \/>\npassengers for the inconvenience caused and reiterated that the safety of&#13;<br \/>\nguests and crew remained its highest priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KQ plane\/ FILE Kenya Airways has confirmed that two&#13; of its regional flights were temporarily diverted on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[116046,89041,116044,14178,18193,80,18834,351,387,116045,352,98,100,36736,353,101,350,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-227821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-aviation-news-kenya","9":"tag-flight-diversion","10":"tag-fog-disruption","11":"tag-jkia","12":"tag-jomo-kenyatta-international-airport","13":"tag-kenya","14":"tag-kenya-airways","15":"tag-kenya-news","16":"tag-nairobi","17":"tag-regional-flights","18":"tag-star","19":"tag-star-news","20":"tag-star-news-kenya","21":"tag-star-newspaper","22":"tag-star-newspaper-kenya","23":"tag-the-star","24":"tag-the-star-kenya","25":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116550394576600213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}