By Nation Correspondent
In Summary
- KQ increases its weekly flights from Nairobi to Mombasa to 88 as the festive season demand shoots up.
- The airline has also increased its weekly flights from Nairobi to Malindi to eight in effort to cash in on holidaymakers.
Kenya Airways has increased its weekly flights from Nairobi to Mombasa to 88 as the festive season demand shoots up.
The new schedule, which also affects 10 other
destinations, has 11 more flights than the national carrier’s normal
operations.
Weekly frequency to Malindi has also been increased to eight from seven as the carrier looks to cash in on holidaymakers.
Regionally, the airline will increase flights to
Kilimanjaro from the current five to seven weekly and to Juba South
Sudan from the current 12 to 19 every week.
Kenya Airways’ chief operating officer Mbuvi
Ngunze said that the increased frequency is meant to meet heightened
demand during the festive season.
Flight frequency
Flight frequency
“This is the reason we are boosting our
frequencies on these routes so that our guests can travel whenever they
want to,” Mr Ngunze added.
Flight frequency to Botswana has also been
increased to five from three every week while flights to Antananarivo,
Madagascar, has been increased to seven times weekly from four.
Frequency to Seychelles has been raised to four times a week from the
current three.
The airline will also begin flying a wide body
Boeing 767 aircraft to Accra, Ghana through either South Africa’s
Freetown four times weekly or through Liberia’s Monrovia three times a
week.
The frequency of flights to Paris, France has also
been increased to six every week, up from five. At the same time, the
airline announced that it will be commencing flights between its Nairobi
hub and Delhi.
Kenya Airways will fly four times a week to Delhi
from Nairobi at 0220 hours local time, to arrive in Delhi at 1220 hours
local time. The return flight will leave Delhi at 1405 hours local time
to arrive in Nairobi at 1855 hours local time.
Double-digit growth
Earlier in the month, the airline released its
quarter two performance results for the three months to September this
year which showed an increase in domestic passenger numbers.
The domestic market was the only one to mark
double-digit growth with 232,960 passengers, while all other markets –
Europe, Africa, Middle East and Far East – recorded a marginal drop.
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