Monday,20th July 2009……Kenya Airways has today announced extensive enhancements to its Mombasa flight schedule,including increasing its weekly flights from the current 27 to 58 flights per week,beginning this month.

The carrier has also introduced a special price offer to Mombasa of Shs 5,500 return and Shs 2,750 one way exclusive of taxes.

The airline will fly the larger Boeing 767-300ER which can accommodate up to 250 passengers to serve the high frequency Mombasa route on Wednesdays and weekends,depending on demand.

Kenya Airways Chief Operating Officer,Bram Steller said the new enhancements are in response to increased demand from business and tourist travelers.

“We are fully committed to offering a superior,value driven product that gives travelers a reason to choose us over the competition,” Steller said.
“We’ve already seen stronger customer response to our more aggressive pricing strategy and continued focus on customer service excellence,resulting in record bookings over the past month. With today’s announcement,we offer great service and customer-friendly schedules to all the towns we serve from our JKIA hub.”

Today’s announcement is part of a series of product and service enhancements focusing on customer value and convenience that Africa’s leading carrier is launching throughout 2009.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

@VVS

I insist there is something like a right to proper compensation. Offcourse proper compensation is relative to different people and subjective to companies.

That KQ is one of the better payers in Kenya is expected as it is one of the top companies,you can't go back and compare it to KBS or City Council. There comparative employers should be Emirates,SAA,Virgin and other airlines and big businesses like BAT,EABL and Safaricom among others.

That Kenya's unemployment rate is at 50% has nothing to do with KQ employees




I've noticed the youth in particular coming in to a workplace with a completely outsized notion of their own value and importance... just a thinly-veiled arrogance. May be the credit crunch induced recession is whats needed to remind us all about the value of hard work.... By Anonymous

it's obvious that VVS doesn't know anything about KQ as an employer.

Some mentioned something like comparing KQ as an employer with other airlines in the region or blue chip companies in the Kenya in the same league as KQ. KQ's flight attendants are paid 1/4 or what their SA,QR,EK and Virgin equals are paid. Talk about commercial,finance,technical..... name them staff who are not in management are paid around 1/3 their equals in QR,EK and Virgin.

KQ's pilots,most of them form four leavers,are paid more than EK and QR pilots. Junior managers in KQ story yao hata I don't know where to start!!!

Safcom,EABL,BBK,Equity,Microsoft E. Africa,NGO's,UN,EK,QR among others are actively fishing from KQ,reason...... well trained but poorly paid staff.

Apparently,what is fuelling alll these problems is the pilots salos plus utilities... and before you start shooting me,know that KQ has a lot of cash.

Disclaimer: I don't work for KQ,I just happen to know stuff about KQ.

@Jaymiggy



So what if pilots are 'form 4 leavers' as you describe them?What's important is to obtain valuable post-secondary training and experience and that doesn't necessarily mean obtaining a degree. What would you rather get: pilot training that costs millions and therefore gives you leverage with employers ama a degree that's so common that employers quote 15k a month take it or leave it?



Pilots need to be paid well so that they can recover the colossal cost of their training. While rich parents can sponsor their kids for jet flying school without going into debt,middle class parents have to drown in debt. So pilots with the latter need to inherit that colossal debt otherwise their parents won't be able to retire or pay medical bills.

You said:

'I insist there is something like a right to proper compensation. Offcourse proper compensation is relative to different people and subjective to companies.

That KQ is one of the better payers in Kenya is expected as it is one of the top companies,you can't go back and compare it to KBS or City Council. There comparative employers should be Emirates,SAA,Virgin and other airlines and big businesses like BAT,EABL and Safaricom among others.'

So if you can't compare KQ to KBS or NCC (Kenyan firms) then WHY would you compare KQ to non-Kenyan firms like SAA,EK?

'That Kenya's unemployment rate is at 50% has nothing to do with KQ employees'

Erm,who said that? Please keep your misquoting to yourself... What I said was that since Kenya's unemployment rate is 50% so... there are many choices/recruits for those janitorial,baggage handling jobs...

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

*Reasonable wage increase? YES. Lakini with conditions that means increased productivity (pay for performance).
_____** No blanket increase but within the existing contract framework. ____*** And if you still want to quit,then go ahead. I would try to keep the 'important' folks like engineers lakini staff I can replace in 3-4 weeks... I would let them go. Ask them to run like the wind.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

@ VVS,your so so off on this one..

The thicker the thigh the sweeter the pie.

@ VVS,from your points,you see no value in KQ's customer service team.

The thicker the thigh the sweeter the pie.

What will follow after the strike.

Most of the profits come from long haul.This is not happening as travelling has been reduced to neccessity and fares are cheap compared to other years.(Planes are flying empty). Domestic flights shall we say is like 'pocket money'.

So strike on the 11th Aug 2009,then pay cut just after the increase( then another strike,i guess) then job cuts. But if in 'utopbia' those who are said to be overpaid,agree to a pay cut to increase the less paid,then maybe.

Wrong time to go on strike,look for a second job or leave.









You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin & joins the energy that created the world.

150% pay rise is un realistic. funny how people complain but are not ready to move to those that can pay them well. May be some of the guys here will retire in KQ. A reasonable increase is wellcome but over 100% not at this critical era!

'Build your own dreams,
or someone else will hire you to build their's!'