Wilson Airport, Nairobi
Destinations
AirKenya links the great safari destinations of East Africa, flying from its private terminal at Wilson Airport into Kenya and Tanzania on a single network.
Five connections
Each route is flown by light aircraft into the airstrip closest to the lodge, so the journey on the ground is measured in minutes rather than hours.
Kenya · MRE
AirKenya was the first airline to fly into the Maasai Mara, and it remains the shortest way in. The service lands at the airstrip nearest your camp, so the drive that follows is measured in minutes rather than hours.
Kenya · ASV
Amboseli sits in the shadow of Africa’s highest mountain. The park is famous for its elephants, and for the photographs of them crossing open dust pans with Kilimanjaro filling the horizon behind.
Kenya · UAS
Samburu and Meru lie north of the Equator, in country that looks nothing like the Mara: dry riverbeds, doum palms and the Samburu Special Five. Fewer aircraft land here, which is exactly the appeal.
Tanzania · ARK
A scheduled link across the border to Arusha, the gateway to a safari between Kenya and Tanzania: it connects on to Lake Manyara, Seronera and Lobo with Regional Air Services.
Tanzania · SEU
One of the great safari flights: across the entirety of the Serengeti plains, linking the Maasai Mara with the Seronera airstrip. It is the most direct way to follow the migration as it moves between the two ecosystems.
The network
Scheduled services depart from Wilson Airport (WIL) in Nairobi. Cross-border connections are operated with the airline’s sister carrier, Regional Air Services in Tanzania.
How our services workFlight times are the ones AirKenya publishes: Maasai Mara 45 minutes, Amboseli 35 minutes, Northern Kenya 55 minutes, Arusha 55 minutes. The airline publishes no route distances, so none are shown — and a place missing from this plate is one the airline names without a position we can stand behind.
The plate plots 5 scheduled connections from Wilson Airport (WIL) in Nairobi to Maasai Mara, Amboseli, Northern Kenya, Arusha and Mara — Serengeti, across 2 countries. Positions are the airstrips’ own coordinates; the arcs are drawn between them.
Plan the flying
Tell reservations your lodge or camp and they will match it to the right service — or arrange a charter if there is no scheduled flight.