US start direct flights from East Africa

 

The United States of America launched its direct flights between East Africa and USA in August this year. The USA flight base is in Nairobi Kenya.

The USA did this as part of its bid to review the progress of increasing their links in the aviation sector in the East African Community states of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.  The US is out to improve aviation health standards in East Africa.  The passengers and cargo between US and East Africa will have no stopovers in other countries.

The United States’ Federal Aviation Administration and Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCCA) are currently reviewing their regulations in order to allow direct flights.

The flights are expected to enable East Africa to fully benefit from the United States’ Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade agreement that allows products to access the United States under preferential terms. Exports of East African agricultural products such as flowers and tourism to the US will increase once the flights commence.

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