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News
✈ Kenya Airways now flies
non-stop to Mauritius.
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Expansion
More Regional Flights
To improve connections to and
from Europe, the US, Africa,
Asia Pacific, the Middle East
and India, Kenya Airways has
increased flight frequencies to
key regional destinations.
The coastal city of Mombasa will see
an increase in daily flights from 2 to 12,
with passengers travelling to Kilimanjaro
enjoying an additional flight, bringing
the total flights there to two daily.
The Juba, Zanzibar and Kigali routes
will each see an additional flight with
four flights to Juba (on Mondays,
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays);
five flights to Zanzibar (on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and
Sundays); and daily flights to Kigali.
Kenya Airways will also increase
passenger seating capacity for leisure
destinations by operating the Boeing
737-800 to Livingstone, Victoria Falls
and Cape Town, with a similar aircraft
flying to Mauritius on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
“The additional frequencies will ensure
that we serve our customers better,
more efficiently and in a timely manner.
This will also play an important role
in growing our business in addition to
supporting the tourism industry,” said
Chief Commercial Officer Kenya
Airways Ursula Silling.
The key routes and additional frequencies
are part of Kenya Airways’ network
expansion strategy, which is essential to
the ongoing financial turnaround. As
part of its five-year plan, Kenya Airways
will continue to invest in its network,
which will include an increase in capacity
for both long- and short-haul flights.
The most recent developments on this
front are the direct routes to Rome,
Geneva, Mauritius, New York,
Libreville, Mogadishu and Malindi.
In addition to this, Kenya Airways has
also increased the flight frequency to
Amsterdam, Paris, Bujumbura and
Cape Town.
“One of our priority areas is the financial
turnaround of the organisation
with a key focus on network expansion,
customer excellence and prudential
financial management,” added Silling.
In the last financial year, Kenya Airways
served an average of 13,258 passengers
daily, an increase from 12,484 in 2017.
Passenger revenues in 2018 grew to
US$1.1 billion, which was largely driven
by a growth in higher yielding traffic to
and from Kenya, an increase in premium
business-class traffic and commercial
efficiencies.