Kenya Airways announced flight scheduling changes
effective April 1, 2015 that are expected to boost connectivity
for passengers by 20 percent.
This coincides with a planned runway upgrade by the Kenya Airports
Authority that will see the Nairobi’s JKIA runway closed for six hours daily,
from midnight to 6 a.m. for the next year.
There will be an increase in flight frequencies in Africa and a
changed flight schedule.
Africa is the main beneficiary of the changes allowing for better
connectivity into Europe and Asia. Intra-Africa connectivity will be enhanced
by the new schedule.
In a push to grow the leisure market and boost local tourism,
flights to Malindi go up from seven to 14 per week and flights to Mombasa
from 56 to 63 per week. Frequencies into Tanzanian towns of Kilimanjaro and
Zanzibar have doubled to two flights a day.
Kenya Airways has introduced daily night flights to Lusaka, Zambia
and Lilongwe in Malawi in addition to the existing day flights.
Schedule changes will also affect Mozambique, where flights to
Maputo will increase from four to five a week and flights to Nampula
increase from three to four a week. In Zimbabwe, Harare flights go up
from 14 flights to 21 per week.
Kinshasa in the DRC will now be served by the B787 Dreamliner to
accommodate more passengers and cargo.
Flights to Yaounde and Douala increase from five times per
week to daily.
As part of its Bilateral Air Service Agreement with the
governments of Ghana and Liberia, Kenya Airways will operate a flight between
Accra and Monrovia.
The airline awaits clearance by the Kenyan Ministry of Health to
resume flights between Nairobi and Monrovia banned last year following the
Ebola outbreak.