Delta Air has announced, it will start commercial flights from the United States to Kenya on June 3.
Delta Air will start flights to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport via Dakar, Senegal.
The flights to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will ease travel between Kenya and United States and help increase Kenyan exports and tourists from US.
Delta’s commercial manager for West and East Africa, Bobby Bryan, said the new flights would ease connections between the two countries and between Nairobi and Senegal.
"The launch of new flights to Nairobi is very important to Delta, as it continues its African expansion," he said at a news conference in Nairobi, yesterday.
The new four-time weekly flights — using a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft with up to 216 seats — would be the only direct service to the US from Kenya.
Delta operates flights from Cairo, Accra, Dakar, Cape Town, Johannesburg and cheap Lagos flights. Confirmation of the commencement of the flight coincided with an announcement by local aviation authorities that US had certified the quality of its operations.
