Kenya Airways announces schedule changes
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Kenya Airways has announced changes to its summer schedule. The airline has introduced a new direct flight to Dubai which will operate three times a week with late evening departures from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to capture the late connecting traffic arriving into Nairobi. This is in addition to the daily Dubai service that the airline operates. The airline will now operate 10 non-stop flights to Dubai.
As a result Kenya Airways will be flying into Accra 12 times a week and nine times a week to Lagos. Kenya Airways has also increased frequencies to Ndjamena, now flying non-stop three times a week. Flights to Dakar will now connect through Ouagadougou thus increases flights to OUA to three times a week. Bamako flights will operate via Cotonou three times a week; this is expected to ease out on the payload issues that the Bamako passengers have experienced in the past.
To Mumbai KQ has increased from daily operations to 10 flights a week and three flights weekly to Delhi. The Middle East region will benefit from the extra frequency added on the Jeddah flights to three times weekly effective July 2012.
On the domestic market, passengers to Kisumu City have more travel options with the introduction of an extra frequency over the weekends to four times daily. On specific weekdays the airline will maintain its three flights daily. The Embraer E190 will be deployed on the route especially in the mornings and evenings.
Europe has a capacity increase despite the suspension of Rome flights. Effective July 2012, flights to London Heathrow will increase to 10 flights per week on the 322 seater Boeing 777-200 this is expected to take care of the traffic demand during the Olympics. Paris flights will increase to six weekly flights during the July – August peak period and the daily Amsterdam capacity will be upgraded to Boeing 777-200.
The optimized schedule comes as the airline moves to increase frequencies on existing routes to meet changing and growing demand while opening new routes in Africa and the Middle East.