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Flight disruptions persist as airport workers strike impact lingers
Travellers are stranded at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on August 31, 2026 as flight operations were disrupted when Kenya Aviation Workers Union members went on strike over the failure by the Government to honour the terms of their memorandum.
Several airlines continued to face flight delays on Tuesday as they struggled to clear the backlog created by a two-day aviation workers’ strike that brought operations at Kenya’s major airports to a near standstill.
The strike, which began on Sunday and was called off on Tuesday morning, forced airlines to cancel and delay flights, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at airports, including the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.
