Kenya Airways to start direct flights to Turkey next month

NAIROBI - Kenyan national carrier Kenya Airways (KA) will start twice-weekly flights to Istanbul via Cairo on June 10, the airline said on Thursday.
A statement said the new service was part of KA's strategy to boost profitability and strengthen its market share.
"The service will also give Kenya Airways access to the rest of the Caspian Sea region as well as the potentially lucrative and well developed domestic air transport in Turkey," it added.
"While most of the passengers on the route will be traders from the African sub-continent, the destination also offers us a huge potential for cargo business and tourists from Turkey to East Africa," KA's Commercial Director Hugh Fraser said in the statement.
In March, the airline said it would also launch flights to Shanghai, Bamako, Livingstone in Zambia, Dakar, Freetown and Maputo.
KA also plans to increase domestic flights to the coastal city of Mombasa and western lakeside city of Kisumu from next month to boost its domestic network, according to the statement.

05/12/2005 13:46 GMT