As Kenya Airways pilots strike enters its fourth day, passengers continue to cancel their flights and many are left stranded. To fill the void, Bluebird Aviation has announced it is ready to help ease current flight disruptions in the country by booking stranded passengers for charter flights following a strike by Kenya airways pilots. Bluebird […]
If you’re an aviation enthusiast and follow much online, you’ll definitely know about Sam Chui. However, the KQ crew missed out on a good opportunity, struggling to stay on their feet, the loss making national airline, couldn’t recognize the influencer onboard and even at one point, the ground crew who’re generally rude and cruel, stopped […]
Kenya Airways (KQ) is eyeing a fresh bailout from the government to steady its operations despite narrowing its half-year loss by a fifth. KQ chief executive Allan Kilavuka said Thursday the national carrier was in a precarious financial position and that the recovery of revenues to pre-coronavirus levels looks set to delay up to 2024, […]
Kenya Airways Chief Executive Officer, Allan Kilavuka and Board Chairman, Michael Joseph now risk facing contempt proceedings for defying court orders preventing the airline agents from causing disturbance and executing evictions orders against renowned aviation company, 748 Air Services and African Express Airways. “Despite service of the orders KQ has refused to grant access to AFEX […]
Sky News has been forced to pull down their investigative story that had identified the KQ stowaway as Paul Manyasi. Our checks on the Sky News website earlier today have revealed that the page titled ‘Plane stowaway: Who was Kenyan man who fell from the sky‘ no longer exists. In an article published on […]
Once The Pride Of Africa and now more like the circus of Africa Kenya Airways, KQ, management has flopped salary and pilots deficiency with Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa) again. KALPA halted CBA talks with the Kenya Airways management after contrasting on how the airline should handle its pilot shortage. General-Secretary Murithi Nyagah in a […]
The association representing Kenya Airways pilots has lambasted the airline’s management for blaming the Pilots for the massive losses that KQ has experienced over the past few years. The Kenya Airlines Pilots Association (Kalpa) stated today that the loss-making KQ would still have reported losses even if pilots gave their services for free. KQ management […]
On Monday this week, Directorate of Criminal Investigations sent a formal request for pieces of information and documentation that will aide in the Probe into previous mismanagement of formerly Pride of Africa- Kenya Airways. According to Kenya Airways, popularly known as KQ, the DCI’s probe will focus on the procurement of services for the maintenance […]
In the first 15 days of August, the loss-making Kenya Airways has canceled more than 52 flights and delayed 40 percent of its trips this year alone and all the expenses are taken care of by the taxpayers. A confidential memo leaked to the media has exposed financial details of the frequent flight cancellations with, […]
The former Pride of Africa, Kenya Airways, announced its annual financial performance this week. KQs Chairman, Michael Joseph said that 2018 was a very challenging year for the loss making airline. Kenya airways posted a pretax loss of 7.59 billion Kenyan shillings an equivalent of $74.93 million. In the last annual financial report, 2017, they […]
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