Saturday, November 10, 2012

Kenya Airways signs deal for Vietnam flights

KENYA Airways has partnered with Vietnam Airlines to to boost its services in the Far East region after its market share in Europe greatly dropped.
 

KQ passengers on the Europe route dropped to 134,214 between July and September 2012 compared to 158,247 over the period last year.

This is in contrast to passenger traffic to East Asia which stood at 155,940 an improvement of 16.5 per cent from the same period last year. On Tuesday KQ announced a Sh4.8 billion net loss attributing it to low passenger numbers, cost of operations and a strong shilling.

The KQ code sharing deal with Vietnam Airlines will see both airlines market seats on each others flights. “Under the agreement with Vietnam Airlines, Kenya Airways passengers will be able to travel via Bangkok on to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam and vice versa daily,” KQ said in a statement issued yesterday.

“Vietnam Airlines will code share on daily Kenya Airways service between Bangkok and Nairobi,” said the statement. KQ CEO Titus Naikuni said the partnership would enable its customers to access more destinations in Asia, while also giving an opportunity to Vietnamese passengers to access the 47 destinations flown by the airline in Africa.

Airlines that are members of the SkyTeam Alliance sometimes enter into such code share agreements to facilitate route network expansion without having to actually set up base or commit all its equipment and aircrafts to all destinations.


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