Kenya Airways Chief Executive Allan Kilavuka. [David Njaaga, Standard] Kenya Airways (KQ) Chief Executive Allan Kilavuka says reinstating full salaries for employees will depend on sustained revenue recovery and renegotiating debts with creditors. He says the airline has seen an improvement in revenues but not enough to lift the current 30 per cent pay cuts […]

Kenya’s national carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) announced it had kicked off direct flights from South Sudan Capital Juba to Khartoum. KQ said in a statement that 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. KQ will […]

Rhetoric on the need for cooperation between airlines in Africa has never been in short supply, but action had been less forthcoming. In the current aviation landscape, filled by the emergence of new markets, two of Africa’s biggest airlines, Kenya Airways and South African Airways, are looking to re-double their efforts to remain competitive. On […]

Kenya Airways (KQ) will resume flying to Khartoum nearly two years after suspending flights to Sudan. Last Friday, KQ launched 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 Kenya’s capital […]

Kennedy Wafula, a laboratory technologist at Aga Khan University Hospital, obtains a swab sample during a free Covid-19 PCR testing Travellers from 11 countries will have to undergo a mandatory rapid antigen test before entering the country, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has directed. The countries include South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, […]

Kenya’s Finance Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani presents the Government Budget for the 2021/22 fiscal year inside the Parliament buildings in Nairobi, Kenya June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi NAIROBI, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Kenya aims to replace a nominal public debt ceiling with a debt anchor as a percentage of gross domestic product by the end […]

A container of live fish before being loaded in Kenya Airways plane at Moi International Airport. The government has dropped plans to nationalise Kenya Airways (KQ). The National Treasury will instead roll out a $1.3 billion (Sh147 billion) multi-year restructuring programme that includes taking over debts. The change of plan is contained in the latest […]

Widerøe Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions SkyWest and Republic Airways Holdings , the parent companies of US regional capacity providers SkyWest Airlines and Republic Airways , have signed tentative orders for 100 and 200 electric vertical take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufactured by Eve Air Mobility, a subsidiary of Embraer . Both Memoranda of Understanding are non-binding […]

Tourists get a medical screening upon arrival at Teminal 3 at Dubai airport, in the United Arab Emirates, on July 8, 2020, as the Gulf emirate reopens to tourists after a long shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. PHOTO | AFP Under the new measures by Dubai, travellers from Africa will now be required to […]