Nominated Senator,Hon. Miraj Abdullahi has sought a Statement from the Senate Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing regarding landing rights for scheduled international flights to Moi International Airport.

The Senator wants the Committee to;

1. State the reasons for restriction and or denial of landing rights for several scheduled international flights to Moi International Airport (MIA) in Mombasa County.

2. Inform the Senate of measures in place to mitigate the effects of the impact of the suspension of direct scheduled international flights to Mombasa and the denial of landing privileges on the tourism economy of the Coast region. 

3. Provide reasons by the Ministry of Roads and Transport for revoking Turkish Airlines' and Qatar Airways' landing licenses for direct flights to Mombasa, as well as the grounds for rejecting their reapplication. 

4. Establish the basis of the Ministry of Roads and Transport to deny the requests of Emirates, KLM, Turkish Airlines, and Qatar Airways to land at Moi International Airport. 

5. State measures by the government to return to the open sky policy in order to attract more international traffic to MIA aimed at promoting the tourism industry at the Coast.