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Location ICAO IATA Airport name Civil airports Amboseli: HKAM: ASV: Amboseli Airport: Angama Mara ANA: Angama Mara Airport: Bamburi BMQ: Bamburi Airport
Originally named Embakasi Airport, the airport's name was changed in 1978 to honour Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president and Prime Minister. The airport served over 7 million passengers in 2016, [4] making it the seventh busiest airport in passenger traffic on the continent. [5] The postal code for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA ...
The airport was established as Nairobi West Aerodrome in 1929 by Florence Kerr Wilson, a wealthy widow.Built at a cost of £50,000 (£3.2 million in 2020), Mrs Wilson hired pilot Tom Campbell Black to run the airport.
Tourism Promotion Services, doing business as Serena Hotels, is a hotel chain that operates hotels in East Africa, Southern Africa, and South Asia. The company is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE), where it trades under the symbol TPS .
Mara Serena Airport is a small civilian airport, serving Maasai Mara and the neighbouring communities. Situated at 1,707 metres (5,600 ft) above sea level, the airport has one unpaved runway measuring 3,445 feet (1,050 m) in length. [3]
Giraffe Manor is a small hotel in the Lang'ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya which, together with its associated Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to a number of endangered Rothschild's giraffes, and operates a breeding programme to reintroduce breeding pairs back into the wild to secure the future of the subspecies.
In 1978, the hotel was purchased by the Sarova Group from Abraham Block and family. [10] In 1998, a US$20 million renovation took place, and the Sarova Group restored the hotel's original name, "The Stanley Hotel". [10] The hotel was the first place to sell Kenya's Tusker Beer in 1922.
Eastleigh Airport (Moi Air Base) is located in the northern part of Eastleigh. The base was the site of the British Royal Air Force base known as RAF Eastleigh. The dual-use facility was also the main civilian international airport in Nairobi for the period 1943–1958 before the opening of the new airport at Embakasi (since named Jomo Kenyatta International Airport).