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MPs yesterday questioned the authorities of the Kenya Airports Authority on the late completion of a 1.9 billion shillings runway at Kisumu International Airport.
The project included the construction of a parallel traffic lane and a public parking lot. Construction Group Ltd in 2012.
KAA Chief Executive Officer Jonny Andersen and other senior officials were summoned and questioned by MPs about why the three-kilometer runway was delayed.
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The National Assembly Public Investments Committee that Kenya Airways requires an extension to accommodate heavy aircraft with only 300 meters remaining for the project be finished.
"The discussion we have with Kenya Airways is how they will contain their operations according to the" They do not want to go down in the size of their planes on the market. Martin Muthui, project director, told the team chaired by Mvita MP Shariff Nbadir that all stakeholders, including air operators and the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, were involved in the process.
"The operators have retreated from their previous agreement and the completion of the project is expected to last a month," he said.
Nbadir asked, "Does this mean that KAA is engaging in a project without prior consultation with end-users?"
M. Muthui said they would redevelop the remaining 300 meters to meet Kenya Airways' demands. "We are looking again at the issue to find a way forward," he said.
"We will have to change the design of the remaining 300 meters in terms of the construction process so that we can do it during the night and the track is available during the day."
Last year, modern automatic weather observation AWOS systems (AWOS) were installed at three international airports
Sh200 million systems were installed at international airports Jomo Kenyatta, Kisumu and Eldoret
This was one of 10 international category 1 standards required for direct flights from Kenya to the United States
Then CS Judi Wakhungu Environment says that the installation of AWOS has put Kenya on par with other destinations with international airports around the world.
She said that they were working closely with the Ministry of Transportation to ensure the entire necessary has been achieved.
Wakhungu said that the observation system must perform meteorological observation, air humidity, dew point temperature, precipitation, solar radiation and the thunderstorms.
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