You can now fly to Nairobi from Entebbe at just Shs400,000. Sounds enticing by all means. Until you realise that it is just a one-way ticket and a return ticket would leave your wallet about Shs800,000 short. Is USD225 for the low-cost Jambojet flight to and from Nairobi any better than USD311 for conventional regional airlines like KQ and RwandAir?
On Thursday, February15, 2018, Kenya’s ‘budget airline, Jambojet, a subsidiary of Kenya Airways, made its maiden trip to Uganda and officially started plying the Entebbe-Nairobi route with one-way tickets going for as low as about Shs420,000 (USD116).
“Jambojet will operate double daily flights with departures from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at 09.10hrs and 17.30hrs. The flight will depart Entebbe International Airport for Nairobi at 11.00 hrs and 19.20hrs daily,