Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (IATA: NBO, ICAO: HKJK) is an international airport in Nairobi, the capital of and largest city in Kenya. Located in the Embakasi suburb 15 kilometers (9 mi) southeast of Nairobi’s central business district, the airport has scheduled flights to destinations in over 50 countries.The airport is named after Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president and prime minister. The airport served over 7 million passengers in 2016.
Plans for the airport were drawn up in 1953, work started in January 1954, and by mid-1957 it was found possible to bring the operational date forward to mid-March 1958. The task was by no means straightforward, and many problems — largely of a civil engineering nature — had to be overcome before the runway could be built. The site chosen, on a great lava plain, is a pilot’s and a controller’s dream: eleven miles from the center of Nairobi (the city’s two other airports, Eastleigh and Nairobi West, are closer), its approaches are free from any obstruction for at least 17 miles in any direction
Airlines operating on Nairobi Airport
Ethiopian Airline
Kenya Airways
Oman Air
Qatar Airways