Kenya Airways adds 11 flights to Mombasa route weekly

Kenya Airways' newly acquired Boeing 777-300ER aircraft at JKIA, Nairobi. The airline has increased its weekly flights from Nairobi to Mombasa. FILE 

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.

By Nation Correspondent
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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

“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.

This story was first published in the Saturday Nation