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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