Illustration of Kenya Airways Cargo Boeing 737-300 © Kenya Airways Cargo Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta ) is to receive KES10 billion Kenyan shillings (USD91.3 million) in COVID-19 state aid less than a year after securing a KES5 billion (USD45.6 million) loan from the Treasury.
This has emerged from supplementary budget estimates of further sums required for the year ending June 30, 2021, which were tabled in the Kenyan Parliament on February 9. Business Daily Africa reported this revealed the airline was to receive KES8 billion (USD73 million) directly from the Treasury and KES2 billion (USD18.2 million) from the Transport Ministry to ease the effects of the pandemic.
“KES8 billion is for Kenya Airways to enable the airline to sustain basic operation during the COVID-19/post-COVID-19 pandemic,” Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani said. “KES2 billion (is) for (a) cash injection for Kenya Airways to cushion against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which grounded its operations.”
The Transport Ministry supplementary estimate also shows an amount of KES2.6 billion (USD24.4 million) for air transport, of which KES225 million (USD2 million) for a Kenya Aviation Modernization Project.
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Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta ) and other Kenyan airlines will, by end of March 2021, commence direct flights between Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta and Hargeisa , the capital of Somaliland, the breakaway region of Somalia seeking international recognition.
In a move that has angered Mogadishu, Kenya openly recognised the secessionist region by announcing it would open a consulate in Hargeisa by the end of March 2021, while Somaliland would simultaneously upgrade its liaison office in Nairobi.
The announcement was made in a joint statement after a two-day official visit to Kenya on December 13 and 14 by Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi at the invitation of Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta.
The move was not well received by the Somali government which cut diplomatic ties with Kenya on December 14, the day after Adbi arrived in Nairobi. In a late-night announcement on national television, Somali Minister for Information Osman Dubbe accused Kenya of constantly interfering with Somalia’s internal affairs and of violating Somalia’s sovereignty. He said Kenyan diplomats in Mogadishu had seven days to…
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta ) has moved into a market gap left my stricken South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo ) by operating direct freighter services out of SAA’s hub in Johannesburg O.R. Tambo to Southern African destinations. Previously, all Kenya Airways traffic […]
