Kenya Airways pilots seek IMF audience in turn around plan msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
KQ partners beef up fleet as national carrier struggles by MARTIN MWITA Image: Douglas Okiddy
•KQ is also facing stiff competition from neighbouring Ethiopian Airlines, the largest carrier in Africa with nearly 130 aircraft in its fleet.
•Rwanda s RwandAir is also eyeing a pie of the regional and international routes, buoyed by investment from Middle Eastern giant Qatar Airways.
Longtime Kenya Airways partner–Air France-KLM Group has made one of the biggest aircraft orders in the aviation industry, at a time when its relations with the struggling carrier remains frosty.
This is in the wake of a spirited push to nationalise the loss-making carrier which will see KLM, which once had a stake of over 26 per cent, bought out of its current 7.8 per cent stake.
Kenya Airways Hits Another Wall With Covid-stricken India
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Kenya’s National Carrier may be headed for another trouble as India- one of its lucrative destinations imposes extra restrictions on KQ flights as part of a fight against Covid-19 pandemic.
In August 2020, Kenya airways resumed flights to India when a ban on international flights was lifted. The resumption of flights was under a special arrangement, normally referred to as ‘air bubble’ in aviation parlance.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic started ravaging the world last year, Kenya airways would carry an unlimited number of passengers to India.
However, with the resumption of the cross-border flights last year and countries being cautious over new strains of Covid-19, India limited the number of passengers to only 400 a week.
KQ releases frozen pilots pay amid salary cuts tiff
Monday April 05 2021
By BONFACE OTIENO
Summary
The Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa) which represents about 414 KQ pilots told the Business Daily Sunday that the airline paid pilots 70 percent of their March pay.
The national carrier had withheld the March pay, which is normally paid before 25th of every month, after the pilots demanded a smaller salary cut.
Kenya Airways #ticker:KQ (KQ) has released frozen pilot pay, shrugging off a row over the flyers demand for reduced salary cut in the wake of business disruptions caused by Covid-19.
The Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa) which represents about 414 KQ pilots told the Business Daily Sunday that the airline paid pilots 70 percent of their March pay on April 2 and promised to clear the balance when the carrier returns to growth.
Kenya Airways Is Reportedly Withholding Pay In Pilot Wage Row simpleflying.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from simpleflying.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.