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Kenya Airways (KQ), the flag carrier airline, is focusing on its new business unit. Launched in July 2021, Kenya Airways’ Fahari Innovation Hub is a platform that brings together entrepreneurs and innovators to help accelerate the development of the aviation industry and tackle some of its current and future challenges. Fahari Innovation Hub also known […]
Nigeria is the second-largest sub-Saharan country in February, with only South Africa having more seats. However, Nigeria slips down the table if flights on offer and available seat miles are considered instead. While the country’s domination varies, Air Peace is the largest of the nation’s relatively small airlines, no matter how it is measured. This […]
Kenya Airways planes at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on July 31, 2020. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG Kenya Airways will start direct flights from Milan to Nairobi on June 8 as demand for booking picks up ahead of summer. KQ, as the airline is known by its international code, will operate on Wednesday […]
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aviation Summaries for this week are some of the topical aviation-related stories between January 30 and February 5, 2022, which are of relevance to Ghanaian travellers and readers at large. PassionAir Introduces Special February Packages for Customers PassionAir has introduced two special packages for its customers to celebrate February as the month of love. For […]
The recently launched Kenyan Airways (KQ) air cargo service from the Kisumu International Airport in the West of that country has local growers excited. They are now, through this new service, able to sell and get their produce to interested markets such as Germany and the Netherlands much quicker. In this way they can send […]
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) has halted trading of shares of New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited, a company whose majority shareholder is the government of Uganda. In a letter signed by the Uganda Securities Exchange Chief Executive Officer Paul Bwiso, the suspension takes effect today, February 11. […]
PAN African music streaming service, Mdundo, has announced a 22 percent growth in its user base in the last quarter of 2021. The platform recorded 20 million users at the end of further quarter, up from 16.3m/-, in the third quarter and that is driven by strong demand for an easy-to-use music service coupled with […]
South African Airlines and Kenya Airways have drawn up plans to set up a joint pan-African airline in 2023. Africa has 357 airlines , the top 10 of which carried more than 60% of traffic. This reflects the fact that many airlines on the continent are very small: some have as few as two aircraft. […]
The bulk of Kenya Airways’ aircraft are 96-seat Embraer 190s, which has pushed the carrier’s seats to just 123 per flight in February-August 2022. That compares to 177 with Ethiopian Airlines, 169 with EgyptAir, and 153 with Royal Air Maroc. Kenya Airways’ 36-strong fleet The Kenya flag carrier has 36 aircraft, comprising 34 in passenger […]
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