KQ to boost operations with new flight schedule

Kenya Airways will now operate more hours of the day to ensure efficient use of its aircraft and crew. This will ensure there is room for an increase in flight frequencies to some cities in its network, especially in Africa.

More flights during the day make for more options to connect between destinations. Kenya Airways’ Chief Executive Officer Mbuvi Ngunze said the rationale behind this hub redesign programme is to augment operations as the company seeks to return to profitability in the next two years.

East Africa remains one of the key focus areas for KQ, with five daily flights to Entebbe as well as to Dar es Salaam and up to three flights per day to Arusha, Bujumbura, Kigali and Juba. In the domestic market, Malindi is served two times per day, Kisumu four times per day and Mombasa eight times per day.

Kenya Airways has introduced another flight to Johannesburg, making it four flights daily to the South African capital. There are now night flights to Antananarivo in Madagascar, increasing doubling the daily frequency to two.

Kenya Airways will offer additional flights to Addis Ababa, making a total of three flights every day to the Ethiopian capital. Kenya Airways will change its flight schedule on the Nairobi–London routes effective March 27, 2016 to ensure efficiency.

In the new schedule the flight will depart Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at 09h10 to arrive into London at 16h15. Then depart from London for Nairobi the same evening arriving in Nairobi the next morning.

Currently the flight departs Nairobi in the evening arriving in London the next morning.

The airline will also introduce six extra weekend flights in its schedule for flights between Amsterdam and Nairobi from August 5 until 21 August 2016 as part of its summer schedule.