Kenya Airways launched another flight

Last Friday Kenya Airways launched a new aircraft and a new route that connects Gaborone and Nairobi, bringing the number of its fleet operating between the two destinations to four over four routes.

The move that is reportedly aimed at meeting the rising demand for travel between the two cities was also said to have been introduced to encourage customers and traders to take advantage of the airline’s growing route network.

“We have added a Friday flight to our schedule, which will be flying directly from Nairobi on Fridays in response to public demand to extend our services,” said Kenya Airways Sales and Station Manager, Juliet Zintambila.She told The Gazette that their business have seen gradual growth in Botswana, adding that this will improve connectivity between the two countries.The airline previously operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays.

“Our conviction that Africa is the new growth frontier is vindicated by the increasing demand for air travel on the continent. It is for this reason that we see our ambition to fly to all African capital cities by 2013 as an achievable target, and we are well on course to attaining it,” noted the Kenya Airways Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Titus Naikuni.

He added that the additional capacity is expected to take care of the surge in trader traffic and to give the airline an edge in attracting traders and their excess baggage.

Naikuni also said that the airline is well on course with the planned African route expansion program; he explained that within Southern Africa and in addition to Gaborone Kenya Airways flies to Luanda, Harare, Lilongwe, Maputo, Nampula, Johannesburg, as well as Ndola and Lusaka in Zambia.

Source: http://gazettebw.com