Forty-one buildings illegally piercing Wilson Airport’s protected airspace. A regulator whose officers were threatened at gunpoint. A city planning chief now facing criminal charges. And a government so captured by developer interests that it would rather reroute aircraft over a national park than flatten a single illegal floor. This is not an aviation story. It is a corruption story. And the crash it is building towards will be Kenya’s fault.
Rotorjet Aviation, affiliated with President William Ruto’s Kwae Island Development Limited, took delivery on May 12, 2026, of the 1,000th Airbus H130 ever built. The acquisition drops into a political petri dish of breathtaking proportions: a sitting head of state expanding a helicopter fleet that has previously been chartered to government agencies he now commands, as his own Finance Bill proposes sweeping tax exemptions for aviation parts.
Authority launches public consultation process for master plans to enhance Kenya’s key aviation hubs The Kenya Airports Authority has unveiled ambitious plans to transform the country’s two most critical aviation facilities through comprehensive master planning initiatives that will reshape Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and Wilson Airport for decades to come. The authority announced the launch […]
Regional airline, Bluebird Aviation has today said Air Charter business travel has been drastically impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic as many customers opt to work from home and most business transactions moved online. Air Charter simply means, ‘Air Taxi’ where an airline takes you to a destination, waits for you to transact your business and […]
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