Kisumu — Farmers across the fourteen counties forming the Lake Region Economic bloc (LREB) have been urged to seize export opportunities as the inaugural flight carrying cargo from Kisumu International Airport departed on Saturday evening. Fresh green chili weighing 1.8 tonnes was loaded into the plane as the first consignment with the airline targeting 6,000 […]
Former Dubai Bank chairman Hassan Zubeidi. PHOTO | PAUL WAWERU | NMG Former Dubai Bank chairman Hassan Ahmed Zubeidi and former senior managers at Kenya Airways were on Tuesday charged with stealing Sh521.9 million from the national carrier. Mr Zubeidi was charged together with former managers at KQ, Elijah Itegi Githinji, Grace Wamuyu Mathenge, Jane […]
Photo: Shutterstock.com Plans to tie two struggling African airlines together are reportedly moving forward. South African Airways and Kenya Airways are preparing to enter a formal partnership that will see the creation of a Pan-African airline. According to One Mile At A Time , Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, confirmed the plans during his […]
COB: Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o. Image: COURTESY Loss making state owned enterprises could be headed for radical restructuring if the state implements a recommendation by controller of budget Margaret Nyakang’o. The country’s budget boss wants the loss making enterprises, among others restructured – including collapsing and merging some – and having others privatized in […]
Minority shareholders of Kenya Airways are trapped in the company whose shares have been suspended from trading for another year, with no clear path to how investors will be able to exit the troubled airline. The company’s share price was first banned from trading in July last year as the government, which owns a controlling […]
Kenya Airways planes at JKIA. Loss-making national carrier, Kenya Airways has received a major financial boost after the exchequer pledged to take over $827 million (Sh93.5 billion) of its debt. The National Treasury further plans to pump in $473 million (Sh53.5 billion) in direct budget support in the fiscal year that ends in June 2022 […]
Several countries have imposed tight travel restrictions on air services with multiple African nations over the Omicron spread. Dubai: Even as more African destinations are added to the no-fly list, air fares between the UAE to other countries on the Continent are recording sharp escalations. A one-stop flight from Johannesburg , South Africa’s largest city, […]
Kenya Airways is still reeling from the impact of Covid-19 that keeps evolving, with the degree of recovery that the aviation industry has made in 2021 now threatened by the Omicron variant . [File, Standard] Kenya Airways ’ pilots are pushing for an overhaul of the carrier’s management and board of directors, arguing that the […]
Kenya Airways (KQ) has started direct flights from South Sudan capital Juba to Khartoum in Sudan as it eyes Africa expansion. The national carrier said the new flight will originate from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi flying to Khartoum via Juba and back to Nairobi every Wednesday and Sunday. The airline will […]
Photo: Shutterstock.com Plans to tie two struggling African airlines together are reportedly moving forward. South African Airways and Kenya Airways are preparing to enter a formal partnership that will see the creation of a Pan-African airline. According to One Mile At A Time , Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, confirmed the plans during his […]
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