Far East destinations and is continuing to move its flights to Nairobi’s new Terminal 1A.
After receiving its fourth 787 on Aug. 28, Kenya Airways has deployed the twinjet on its existing Nairobi-Bangkok-Guangzhou and Nairobi-Bangkok-Hong Kong services. These join its initial 787routes, which comprised Paris and Johannesburg.
Kenya Airways has nine 787-8s on order, with five still awaiting delivery. Two of these are slated to arrive in October. The 787s have been brought in to replace Kenya Airways’ 767-300ERs, which have already exited the fleet, leaving it with 37 aircraft: four 787-8s, three 777-300ERs, four 777-200ERs, five 737-800s, four 737-700s, two 737-300 freighters and 15 Embraer E-190s.
“As part of the airline’s long-term fleet and route development strategy, over the next 10 years KQ is implementing a plan geared at growing the fleet size, modernizing the aircraft equipment and simplifying it by reducing the number of aircraft types from seven to four,” the carrier said.
Kenya Airways has also migrated another 11 flights to Terminal 1A at its Jomo Kenyatta International Airport home hub. It now operates 15 flights from the new facility, which is dedicated to Kenya Airways and its SkyTeam partners.
Terminal 1A has capacity for 2.5 million passengers per year, but will only handle departures until its completion in 2015. Dar-es-Salaam, Delhi, Entebbe, Johannesburg and Luanda are already served from the new facility.
Kenya Airways has been affected by the West African Ebola outbreak, causing some cancellations and disruption to its Liberia and Sierra Leone flights.
-ATWOnline
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