KQ should treat all passengers with dignity

After a tedious two-hour drive from town, I arrived at the airport at 7.30pm last Thursday evening, just in time to check in for the 8.40pm flight KQ624 to Mombasa. I was joined in the airline lounge by several members of the National Assembly and the Senate, plus the speakers of the two Houses, booked on the same flight.

 As you would invariably expect, the flight was delayed to shortly after 9 pm. As we went through the boarding gate, the airline staff asked for identity documents. The Senator for Bungoma, Moses Wetang’ula, did not have an ID card but nonetheless was given back his boarding pass and we proceeded to board the aircraft.