Tycoons have begun clearing their planes currently placed on auction at various airports in the country after Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) declared them a safety risk.
The Aviation Authority said some of the aircraft have been cleared while others are still lying at the airports.
The KAA gave the aircraft’s owners 30 days starting August 14 to claim them or sell them through public auction.
The 101 planes include those owned by politicians and aircraft that belong to commercial air operators such as Silverstone, 748 Air Services, and Jetlink.
Planes owned by State agencies such as Moi University, Kenya Police, and Somalia Air force also risk being auctioned should their owners fail to collect them before the closing of the grace period.
The auctioning plan comes at a time when flight firms struggle with low travel after Kenya resumed air travel in July.
“KAA says they are still within the 30 days of the auction. The exercise is not yet over. Some plane owners have come to clear their aircraft while others have not. It’s work in progress,” said KCAA director-general Gilbert Kibe in an interview Friday.
Some of the abandoned planes are at Moi Internationa Airport in Mombasa, Wilson Airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), and Lokichoggio Airport.
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Wilson Airport has 64 of the targetted planes, with five of them linked to the Kenya Police Air Wing, Skylink, Silverstone, and Moi University.
JKIA had 17 abandoned planes including Jetlink’s Sh2 billion Bombardier plane, two old Boeing planes registered under Jubba Airways, and two Soviet-built passenger planes owned by Somali Airforce.
