[quote=VituVingiSana]Qatar Airways to start direct Mombasa flights in December
https://www.businessdail...53244-v361sw/index.html[/quote]

The clueless Uhuruto and Macharia signed off a strategic destination for the national carrier.

Even a very corrupt Amos Kimunya and a senile Mwai Kibaki refused totally to grant Qatar Government the rights to land in Mombasa.

Cost - People were being trained then they leave for greener pastures - actually Emirates & Qatar were poaching them.

It was like KQ subsidising them - Initial capital outlay being paid by KQ instead of being used to buy aircrafts.

They will have to start again but a training school must be set up in Kenya. Sending people to South Africa and Ethiopia is too costly.

KQ must take charge of JKIA if it is to regain a hold of its destiny

this has been the stated wisdom (shortage of pilots), but on the ground, you hear of pilots getting furloughed all the time. I stalk some pilot forums and they are rife with stories of poor pay, harsh working conditions and a very tough life for the pilots and families. There was a video on youtube documenting the miserable lives led by pilot crews from some of US feeder airlines, sleeping in bunkbeds in small, high school dorm-like rooms...all these are pointers to a surplus in pilots, and these fellows have been reduced to a rat race because they are swappable like toilet paper. What shortage I ask? If there was a shortage airlines would treat existing pilots with deep respect, they would invest in training some more, not charge 200,000 dollars to train one. Doesn't add up.
I stand corrected.

Blahablah is not your home town block kid. U just got sucked up. Too much manch blahablah here, it will leave u sick holed, blahblah. Captains giving last rites is not for the faint hearted @arerested.
So many moving parts to know how many u just did actually have lost. Babbage is not quantam yet. But almost there miss Intel.