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Kenya: KQ Seeking State's Help to Become Competitive
East African, 27 September 2017
Kenya Airways is asking the government - its largest shareholder - for tax breaks and protection from what it terms unfair competition from other carriers as it struggles to stay… Read more »
Kenya Airways Seeks Govt Help to Ward Off Rivals
Kenya Airways chairman, Michael Joseph, says all of Kenya Airways' "serious competitors" in Africa, all of them state-owned, are merely "marketing arms of their countries". This implies that the carriers do not have to operate on the same survival logic as KQ as they are guaranteed state support.
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Kenya: KQ Seeks State Protection to Ward Off Rivals
Nation, 23 September 2017
Kenya Airways is seeking government protection to ward off competition from African and Middle East air carriers flying into Nairobi. Read more »
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Kenya: KQ Defends Expat Hire to Help CEO Revive Airline
Capital FM, 21 September 2017
Kenya Airways Chief Executive Sebastian Mikosz has defended his decision to hire Polish expatriates as part of the airline's management team in its efforts to return to… Read more »
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The United States has given the national carrier a foreign air carrier permit "to engage in: scheduled and charter foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail from ... Read more »
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Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia says the airline now awaits other crucial licenses to see it fly directly to the United States by March 2018. Read more »
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This is the latest chapter in the airline's ongoing labour wrangles with the firm just managing to avoid a planned industrial action by its pilots in October. In the half year to ... Read more »
