Lenders at loss on how to fly stricken KQ to profitability

Kenya Airways 787 Dreamliner taking off photo:courtesy

The most dazzling and frightening view above the clouds is probably the tiny beeping console screens and the dozens of buttons in an airplane’s cockpit, if you have no idea how the whole contraption is flown.

Now, 11 banks are finding themselves in the cockpit of Kenya Airway’s fleet of Dreamliners clutching at the joysticks with completely no idea of how to steer it to profitability - or the consolation of flight hours of experience required for the decade-long turnaround plan.