Kenya Airways has revealed the routes that the carrier will fly after re-opening in August and direct flights to the United States and China have been dropped.
Cutting the routes it serves by half, KQ will only fly 27 routes down from 56 while also reducing the frequency of flights to some destinations as the airline awaits passenger demand to get back to normal in the next 18 months.
“We plan to resume flights to 27 destinations in August. This represents close to 50 percent of our routes pre-Covid,” KQ chief executive officer Allan Kilavuka told the Business Daily.
The direct flights to the United States were just recently launched barely 2 years ago, for passengers to ply the Kenya-US route, they will have to use the older routes that mean they must now change planes in Europe or the Gulf on a journey that can take 20 hours or more.
Domestic commercial and passenger flights resumed July 1 after restrictions that had been put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus were lifted while international travel will resume from August 1.
The move was aimed at ffering a boost to Kenya Airways, which had lost an estimated Sh10.6 billion in revenues in the six months to June and revive the dwindling Kenyan economy.
The carrier will fly twice daily to Addis Ababa, Kigali and Dar es Salaam, and three times weekly to Zanzibar. It will also operate three weekly flights to London and Mumbai and five weekly flights to Dubai, while flying at reduced frequencies to Amsterdam, Paris, and London.
Kenyan Business Feed is the top Kenyan Business Blog. We share news from Kenya and across the region. To contact us with any alert, please email us to [email protected]