@the deal, take out travel insurance. If the delay goes over 8 hours (UAP Travelsure) they give you some bread......My luggage was delayed once when coming from Oliver Tambo and they paid me $100

The biggest enemy of this share is its un-reasonable staff.

If KQ's staff want to go on strike, let them... then fire them! Let them look for other jobs!

KQ should increase their Africa (excluding Kenya) hiring. There are so many countries KQ flies to... Let's have more West Africans, Central Africans, South Africans, Ugandans, etc... Then there are the Chinese & Indian crew & staff...

1) If the employees think they are underpaid, then QUIT... PLEASE QUIT...Not kesho,lakini leo...

2) I run my own biz. Nobody pays me. I work for value I create. I take jobs that either pay what I am worth OR I take for 'lesser' pay coz I am looking/thinking long-term.

3) I betcha the costs of Chinese & Indian crews & staff is lower! Both countries have huge world-class airlines with lots of experience in maintenance.

4) As for other African countries that KQ flies to... KQ needs a blend of diverse nationalities. You want AT LEAST one Ghanaian on NBO-ACC flights, one Ugandan on NBO-EBB, one Egyptian on NBO-Cairo, etc...

Why? Culture, language, 'pan-African' look...

The Kenyan Pilots Association were bitching about hiring foreign pilots! They would rather KQ hired unqualified local pilots or that it stopped expanding!!!

At some point you have to DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND... If you are dissatisfied with KQ, go start your bloody airline just as Jetlink or Fly540 or Executive have done!

@vitu-PILOTS!?! Dont go thea brother. Every pilot that gets this kq wings is qualified,wel trimd to the right facet. At the end of the day,lets rememba that we r kenyans n it wud b good to serve kq. Thru the ab initia, the liks of BA,VIRGIN etc train their people. It wud therefore be fair enough if kq does the same by considerin citizens FIRST. Al the same,whether qualified or not kq stil puts u through books again n again til u glide like an eagle.Al said,i rest my case.

KQ expansion is mostly in Africa especially Lusophone (Mozambique, Angola) & Francophone (chunks of West Africa, Burundi) countries. KQ needs staff who speak Portuguese & French.

I have heard that KQ wants to expand further into China (Beijing or Shanghai) thus there is the need to hire 'Chinese' (Han, Mandarin & Cantonese) speakers among the crew.

Instead of Naikuni placing a whole page advert on SN pleading with unionized workers not to strike he should SACK a few of them and employ new graduates who are looking for jobs.

there is more to employees than just hiring and firing. U think those will not unionise and we are back to the same prob?
I think the cost of training those graduates may be the same as back-dating as well!

We are back again to the wait and see situation....bogas staff

@the deal, I think he meant biogas staff