African Express Airways is a Somali-owned Kenyan airline with its head office at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya. Services African Express Airways is a short-haul airline, which caters to business and leisure travellers and operates daily departures. It also has an Associate Jet Aircraft Maintenance Company located near its head offices. Jet Aircraft Maintenance Ltd is a firm specialized in jet aircraft maintenance, which ranges from 'A' to 'B', 'C' and 'D' checks for most medium-range aircraft of Western manufacture. The company has a new in situ hangar equipped with all facilities, including maintenance hangar rental services for third parties who may have their own engineers and approvals. Destinations Current destinations As of February 2021, African Express Airways operates services to the following domestic and international scheduled destinations: Kenya Nairobi - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport base Somalia Bosaso - Bosaso Airport Garowe - Garowe Airport Kismayo - Kismayo Airport Mogadishu - Aden Adde International Airport Hargeisa - Hargeisa International Airport Former destinations The airline previously also served the following airports: Comoros Moroni – Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport Egypt Cairo – Cairo International Airport Kenya Mombasa – Moi International Airport Eldoret – Eldoret International Airport Kisumu – Kisumu International Airport Somalia Galkaiyo – Abdullahi Yusuf International Airport Berbera – Berbera Airport United Arab Emirates Dubai – Dubai International Airport Sharjah – Sharjah International Airport Yemen Aden – Aden International Airport Mukalla – Riyan Mukalla Airport Seiyun – Seiyun Airport Fleet Current fleet The African Express Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of February 2021): Former fleet Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia Accidents and incidents 4 May 2020: An East African Express Airways Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, registration number 5Y-AXO, on an air charter flight delivering pandemic relief supplies, crashed on approach to Berdale, Somalia, killing all 2 crew and 4 non-revenue passengers on board. On 10 May, a leaked African Union peacekeeping force report alleged that ground troops of the Ethiopian National Defense Force who were operating outside the peacekeeping force's authority mistakenly concluded that the aircraft was engaged in a suicide attack and shot it down; this allegation ignited controversy over Ethiopian and Kenyan military incursions into Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab militants there. The three countries have initiated a joint investigation of the accident. See also Airlines of Africa References External links Airlines of Kenya Airlines established in 1999 Kenyan companies established in 1999