{"id":41030,"date":"2020-03-18T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jambojet-temporarily-suspends-flights-to-kigali\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:30:02","slug":"jambojet-temporarily-suspends-flights-to-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jambojet-temporarily-suspends-flights-to-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Jambojet temporarily suspends flights to Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision follows a drastic slump in air travel demand globally after governments closed borders, companies banned lucrative business travel and conferences and events were canceled in response to coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Jambojet started flying to Kigali in November 2019 and recently bought two De Havilland aircraft, flying from Jomo Kenyatta Airport to Kigali International airport once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The airline announced it was suspending flights to Kigali via Twitter in an announcement that reads: &#8220;Over the past few weeks, there has been a global spread of the COVID-19 which resulted in a decrease of airline passengers, especially on the international routes. As a result, Jambojet has decided to suspend its services to Kigali, Rwanda, and Entebbe, Uganda with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jambojet will keep operating its flights to Malindi, Ukunda, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret in Kenya. The airline cancels Kigali and Entebbe flights at a time when major airlines in the world are struggling to keep afloat. Since its establishment in 2014, Jambojet has transported more than 3 million passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Flights from Kigali to Nairobi cost Rwf 102,000. Jambojet obtained a flight permit from Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority (RCAA) on November 19th, 2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35244 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jambojet_yamaze_guhagarika_ibikorwa_byayo_mu_rwanda-fd1f2.jpg\" alt=\"Jambojet will keep operating its flights to Malindi, Ukunda, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret in Kenya.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jambojet, a Kenyan airline, has temporarily suspended flights to Rwanda and Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}