When will they ever notice that their customer care service is sick to the core????????? The reason why people choose the other airlines is coz of that. And the fuel story is not making sense why not hedge well...nkt

Isn't it idiosyncrasy to attempt to solve balooning costs of accommodating delayed passengers by building a hotel. Is the assumption that costs of running this hotel will evaporate into the air, sounds a very daft statement coming from the board really. Something is awfully awfully wrong with this company. GoK threw money they would have used to build a hospital or equip Kenyatta Hospital to decent standards and save lives away by investing in KQ. So KQ is tired of running an airline and want to join the property 'boom' that's touted by insurance companies?????very very sick of them.

A case of a cyclical company in its low cycle together with the herd. Factor in the rights issue into 2011/2012 books and you will see the stock is selling at a discount

Then buy yourself some shares

http://www.facebook.com/...posts/10150902982648800

Dont quote me but am almost sure the suckers were about to takeoff witthout fuel!!!!!!!!!This is the way they are playing with the shareholder money

DAMN!!! Not a single positive comment. Retail investors sentiments on this counter are loud and clear

Kenya scareways..

@hunderwear. What you are suggesting is IMPOSSIBLE. Too many checks and balances, too many people involved here for this to happen. There isn't even a remote chance of this happening.
A. The pilots are very particular about this
B. there is an engineer whose job is mainly to dispatch an aircraft with fuel.
C. There is a ground staff assigned tO ensure that refuelling is comPlete in good time.
D. Load controller who does the weight and balance provides weights based on actual fuel on aircraft.
E. the airplane has its own warning systems which tell u even before u start engines that there is something wrong ie not enough fuel to destination.

U have to understand that the policy is to take enough fuel to destination + alternate plus other fuel legally required(plus KQ policy fuel which is higher than legal reqmts). So unlike a car, we don't JAZA as that extra fuel is just dead weight ie ur burning fuel to carry this extra fuel. So we just take minimum fuel reqd for the journey. However, if a turnback is done for whatever reason, like was on the case on that MBA, you have burnt the some fuel, depending on the aircraft between 16-35 kgs per minute on ground and since u have taken minimum fuel required and u have burnt close to 100-200kgs during start,taxi out and then back in, u need a top up.

@VVS. THE NBO-ACC route, the unscheduled stop in DLA can again happen for various reasons.
A. That route is mainly flown over the equator/over the DRC which is known area for severe thunderstorms even at high altitude. Note that the weather forecasts don't accurately predict severe weather and deviations u have to make off track which chews up your fuel enroute. Sometimes u are off track avoiding lightening and thunderstorms by over 80nm(almost 148kms) north or south of your planned fuel efficient track. Also weather forecasts in these areas are not the most accurate.
B. going to the West, winds forecasted might have been headwinds but in flight, several times I have noticed that the actual winds are completely opposite and in some cases, you just have to make a tech stop as the winds are actually unfavourably extreme.
C. Air traffic - you make be planned on the flight plan to fly 38000 feet. However, due to traffic on that level, turbulence etc you are told by ATC to maintain 34000. The lower you are to ur optimum altitude, the more fuel u burn. this scenario is very possible in Kinshasa airspace.

Apparently, foreigners paying for their rights boosted the Kenya Shilling
http://www.businessdaily.../-/4msc6vz/-/index.html

I always thought there was something suspicous about the counter.
The market rallied heavily on huge foreign demand but the counter never moved. Now atleast we know why.