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Shame of stranded travellers and why it could have been avoided

Passengers stranded at JKIA.

Yesterday’s flight disruptions at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) caused great inconvenience to hundreds of passengers, among them tourists and patients caught unawares by a strike called to protest the proposed takeover of the airport by struggling national airline Kenya Airways (KQ).

More than 30 flights – most of them international- were affected by the long delays and the long queues at departure and arrival bays.

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