{"id":226314,"date":"2026-03-08T00:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-heavy-rains-disrupt-flights-at-jkia\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:36:56","slug":"kenya-heavy-rains-disrupt-flights-at-jkia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-heavy-rains-disrupt-flights-at-jkia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Heavy Rains Disrupt Flights At JKIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nairobi \u2014 Heavy overnight rains in parts of Nairobi have disrupted several flights operated by Kenya Airways, with some aircraft diverted to Mombasa due to adverse weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a customer update issued Saturday, the airline said the downpour affected scheduled operations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, causing delays and changes to flight schedules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;The heavy overnight downpour in parts of Nairobi and its environs caused disruption to some of our scheduled flights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Due to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603070101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Heavy overnight rains in parts of Nairobi have disrupted several flights operated by Kenya Airways, with some aircraft diverted to Mombasa due to adverse weather conditions. In a customer update issued Saturday, the airline said the downpour affected scheduled operations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, causing delays and changes to flight schedules. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591872:ef80a8fd6c1ff35db086a987e315b871:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,23872,6969,8130,16673,4688,430,257,15767,254],"class_list":["post-226314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disrupt","tag-flights","tag-heavy","tag-jkia","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591872:ef80a8fd6c1ff35db086a987e315b871:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}