Lake Baringo Airport is an airport located on the western shores of

Lake Baringo Lake Baringo is, after Lake Turkana, the most northern of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, with a surface area of and an elevation of . The lake is fed by several rivers: the Molo, Perkerra and Ol Arabel. It has no obvious outlet; the waters ar ...

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. It received its first commercial flights in January 2016.

History

In January 2016, Fly-SAX began flights to Lake Baringo from Nairobi–Wilson, thereby inaugurating commercial service at the airport. Flights operate twice a week using

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aircraft. The new service has given a boost to the

Baringo County Baringo County is one of the 47 counties in Kenya. It is located in the former Rift Valley Province. Its headquarters and largest town is Kabarnet. The county is home to Lake Baringo. Geographical location Baringo bounded by Turkana County and ...

tourism industry."Airline To Start Scheduled Flights to Lake Baringo"
''Baringo County-News''. 29 November 2015. Archived at the

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on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

Lake Baringo Airport at the Great Circle Mapper
{{authority control Baringo County Airports in Rift Valley Province

History

Airlines and destinations

See also

References

External links