Call Centre: +254 20 6000 777NEW LINK FROM MASAI MARA TO MIGORI RETURN
Safarilink is pleased to announce yet another destination to our network of services. The long awaited native link from Masai Mara to the northern circuit in Tanzania will now be accessible via Migori near the border point of Isebania. Commencing 1st July 2010 the daily Masai Mara to Migori service will operate as follows: Masai Mara to Migori Dep. 1130 Arr.1200 while Migori to Masai Mara Dep.1215 Arr.1245
Please note that agents and operators must ensure vehicles are at Migori strip to meet or passengers as lounge or waiting facilities are not available and the aircraft and pilot cannot delay departure for clients who are not met. Please contact our marketing department for any clarifications.
NEW LINK TO TSAVO EAST AND AMBOSELI AFTERNOON SERVICE.
Safarilink is pleased to announce another destination to our expanding network! Commencing 1st July, 2010, Safarilink will operate a daily afternoon service to Amboseli and Chyulus (Ol Donyo Wuas), extending to Voi (KWS airstrip in the park). Passengers off our Laikipia to Wilson and Mara to Wilson flights will be able to connect to this service. The Voi strip will service several camps and lodges in Tsavo East as well as the Taita/Salt Lick areas. All stops will be subject to minimum 2 passengers being booked. This service will initially operate during the high seasons only, and our current morning schedules to Amboseli and Tsavo West will also continue to operate. In the low seasons, only the morning services will operate to Amboseli and Tsavo West.
Timings WILSON TO AMBOSELI Dep.1400 Arr.1440, AMBOSELI TO OL DONYO WUAS Dep.1445 Arr. 1505OL DONYO WUAS TO VOI Dep.1510 Arr.1535, VOI TO AMBOSELI Dep.1540 Arr.1625, AMBOSELI TO WILSON Dep.1630 Arr.1710 . All timings are approximate as the service could operate into all or only one strip depending on passenger loads. Due to the distance between Amboseli and Voi, there could be a significant difference in timings of up to one hour if Voi is not a stop on a particular day. As a consequence, we strongly recommend you alert your clients of a possible time change on this service and that you re-confirm actual timings with our operations 24 hours before the flight. When booking this service, please indicate the lodge they will be staying at, especially for passengers going into Voi strip. We trust this service will enable you to offer more diverse safaris or an extension to current itineraries. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any clarifications.
SafariLink Helps Protect Diani's Primates.
As part of its ongoing corporate social responsibility programme, SafariLink, Kenya's premier safari airline, has announced that it will donate $2 to the Diani Beach based Colobus Trust for each passenger it flies into or out of the Diani airstrip. In addition it has sponsored the purchase of a 'tuk-tuk' which will be used by the Trust to collect tourists from their hotels and take them to their headquarters where they will be able to learn about the Coast ecosystem and the work of the Trust. The airline, which commenced daily flights to Diani on the 1st July 2009, has taken the decision to assist the Trust which runs the primate conservation and rescue centre on the south coast of Kenya.
The Colobus Trust was founded in Diani in 1997, initially to come up with a way to prevent the high number of monkey 'road kills' on Diani Road. Today, the Trust has expanded to become a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre, focusing on primates, with both Kenyan staff and international volunteers. The Colobus Trust also helps to educate local schoolchildren, gives guided eco-tours and provides a rehabilitation programme for monkeys that have been kept illegally as pets.
"The rapid growth in tourism infrastructure and growing human population in the area has had a significant negative impact on the remnants of a once large and rich coastal forest ecosystem and hence a decline in the primate population," said John Buckley, Managing Director, SafariLink Aviation. "For more than ten years the Colobus Trust has been dedicated to the conservation and welfare of primates living in the Diani area. SafariLink, as a socially responsible company, is therefore happy to help the Trust in order to help safeguard the environment for the remaining primates and hopefully thereby stop the decline in their numbers."
In support of the donation, Raymond Matiba, Chairman of The Colobus Trust said, 75 % of the Trusts core revenue comes from tourism. But sadly the Kenya Coast has suffered a decline in tourists in recent years and hence our income from visitors to the Trust has decreased. We are therefore particularly delighted that SafariLink have made this very generous donation to the Trust and their pledge of long term financial support will help us plan for the future."
"In addition, the introduction of the SafariLink daily flights to Diani is in itself a very positive move which we believe will result in an increase in tourists as well as being beneficial to the residents in the area," added Matiba.
