NAIROBI: A strike by workers at Kenya’s main gateway — Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta Int’l Airport (JKIA) — has severely affected flight operations out of here, with some airlines including IndiGo cancelling flights on Tuesday. As a result, hundreds of Indians are among the scores of foreigners of stuck in Kenya, unable to leave the country. And those who need to fly in are also unable to do so.
India, which sent over 1.3 lakh tourists to the East African country last year and is its fifth largest source market for international tourists, has only one direct flight to the country — IndiGo’s daily flight between Mumbai and Nairobi. A majority of Indian travel via Gulf carriers like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways.
