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.
This story was first published in the Saturday Nation
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