Commercial flights to and from Garissa that were suspended in mid-January this year have resumed.
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority suspended the freedom airlines from operating alleging security concerns and cracks on the tarmac runway barely a week after it had been launched.
This raised an uproar from the freedom airline company and a section of residents who termed the move as a bit ‘punitive’.
But a delighted Shallow Abukar, who is the airline’s manager, while addressing the press at the Garissa airstrip on Sunday, said that whatever happened in the past is now water under the bridge.
“All the issues raised by KAA and other stakeholders then had been resolved. That was a minor setback that we have since overcome,” said Abukar.
He added: “We are now looking forward to doing business with not only the people of Garissa but the entire northeastern region.”
He said that with time they plan to increase the flights depending on the demand saying that for now, they were operating one flight to and from Nairobi on Mondays and Fridays.
Northeastern regional commissioner Mohamud Saleh who was on board the flight from Nairobi said that commercial flights to major towns in the region were a testament that security had normalised.