Fly 540 Africa

Doha-based Qatar Airways is set to begin direct flights into Mombasa from January. This will open up the Kenya’s coastal region to more tourists from the Middle East.

Speaking during the official opening of the sixth annual Magical Kenya Tourism Expo, Tourism Secretary Najib Balala revealed that the government would grant the State-owned airline a licence to fly directly to Mombasa.

Qatar Airways, which has been seeking the licence for more than three years, currently has direct flights to Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Kigali, Entebbe, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam as well as daily flights to Nairobi.

The State-owned airline will now join international carriers such as Ethiopian Airlines, Turkish Airlines and RwandAir which fly directly into Mombasa.