Jambojet an airline which is an offshoot of the Kenya Airways, plans to triple its fleet and launch longer routes, including new destinations in West and Southern Africa.
In Tanzania, the Jambojet planes fly only to Zanzibar from Nairobi.
Now the plan to increase flights and frequency apparently, is for the next five years, according to the businessman and newly appointed board chairman Ayisi Makatiani.
Jambojet is a subsidiary of Kenya Airways. The airline started operations in 2014 and flies to eight domestic and one international destination using a fleet of eight Dash 8-Q400 aircraft.
Makatiani revealed recently that the country’s budget carrier, will acquire two more aircraft in the course of the year 2026, using leasing options to grow sustainably, while improving efficiency and customer experience.
However, the details about the aircraft to be leased were not disclosed.
But the official said that the airline’s annual revenue had topped 13 billion Kenyan shillings, equivalent to USD10 million, with strong demand on domestic and short regional routes, particularly between Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta and Kisumu, and Nairobi and Mombasa.
The Airline’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Karanja Ndegwa previously said Jambojet expected to grow its fleet to 11 aircraft by early 2026 and to expand that to16 by 2029.
Karanja has just told ch-aviation that the airline planned to lease three additional Q400s in 2025 to meet rising demand and grow passenger numbers by 12 percent annually over the next five years.
According to ch-aviation and ADS-B data, the airline’s current fleet comprises nine leased DHC-8-Q400s. Ndegwa said the tenth and eleventh Q400s would arrive from lessors in the coming months.
From Nairobi, the airline operates domestic flights to Eldoret, Kisumu, Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, and Ukunda; and regional services to the Zanzibar Island of Tanzania.