{"id":44211,"date":"2026-08-31T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44211"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:40:57","slug":"kenya-airport-staff-strike-delays-thousands-of-passengers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-airport-staff-strike-delays-thousands-of-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya airport staff strike delays thousands of passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Flight delays at Kenya&#8217;s main international airport on Monday affected thousands of travellers as airport workers&#8217; go-slow strike action continued into its second day, with \u200bthe main union saying negotiations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Kenya Aviation Workers&#8217; Union (KAWU) said \u200cthe strike at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport was due to a range of grievances, including the inability to conclude a collective bargaining agreement with the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and lack of \u200bcooperation from the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and Kenya Airways subsidiary Jambojet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">KAA on \u200bSunday said some flights were experiencing delays without disclosing reasons for the \u2060delays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It did not respond to a request for comment on Monday. The \u200bKenya Civil Aviation Authority and Jambojet did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Rwanda&#8217;s national carrier \u200bRwandAir said in an X post on Sunday that it had cancelled two flights as a result of what it said were air traffic control challenges at the airport in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Passengers told <i>Reuters<\/i> \u200bthey had spent hours at the airport waiting for news about their flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They told me that the flight&#8217;s been cancelled,&#8221; said rabbi Mendel Goldman, who is travelling to a wedding in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;The earliest flight \u200bthey can get \u200bus is only tomorrow \u2060night, so we&#8217;ve got to wait,&#8221; Goldman said on Monday. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to try and make most of it, but in the \u200bmeantime, I&#8217;ve been here for 12 hours now, waiting in the \u200bairport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">KAWU Secretary \u2060General Moss Ndiema said the union and government officials met on Sunday to resolve issues but without success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;We have agreed to proceed with the engagements tomorrow, as from 11 \u2060o&#8217;clock in \u200bthe morning. In the meantime, the strike action \u200bis still on,&#8221; he said in comments broadcast on\u00a0<i>KTN Television\u00a0<\/i>on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23814,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-44211","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Flight delays at Kenya's main international airport","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44212,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44211\/revisions\/44212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}