Looks like we don't need state owned airlines in Africa...Air Namibia is an embarrassment to my country...we are killing it off by 2020...

Your guys are more sensible than ours!

This is huge. Could this be the nail in the coffin for KQ?

The airport will be more than twice bigger than Greenfield airport that was shelved

No way. Greenfield terminal was going to be much bigger and would handle double the amount of pax as Kigali's new airport. We really should have never cancelled that contract. By the time they decide to do it watch the contract cost go above $1 billion sigh

Btw @maka what was a KQ 787 doing at LAX jana?

Something to do with livery....

I think they will. Look at the Map



They are literally the hub of the continent. They have the vision, they have the leadership and they are executing on it.

Kenya is most radar less country in East Africa except maybe for Burundi. We are only ahead of the other countries because of better investment by colonialists during their 60 year settlement. We have barely improved on what the British did.

Our neighbors are waking up. In Magufulis Tanzania they have had 10 fold increase in production of Tanzanite, 6 fold increase in production of Gold all in 4 years after tackling corruption. State corporations have increased their contribution to the budget 6 fold in 4 years. They are building a better all electric SGR with internally generated revenue, building a new hydroelectric dam themselves, building massive bridges in Mwanza by themselves, adding 400km of tarmac road every year etc.

Uganda produces food items at a fraction of Kenyas production costs, everything from sugar to eggs to maize. Uganda production of coffee is almost ten times that of Kenya.

Rwanda has branded its coffee and is getting better prices, they have a booming conference tourism package. They are building their tourism with better paying products and good marketing.

Thank you my friend for spelling-it-out to all who have ears to hear.

I sometimes laugh when the disgraced so called wazua elders(who lost credibility long ago) post guesswork on this forum on what may be ailing the Kenyan economy. I feel like crying when the usual suspects copy-paste sensational poorly written and shallow newspaper articles from business daily reporting sijui retrechment, sijui factories closing down etc.


One major thing that Kenyans conveniently choose to ignore/forget is that over the years Kenya economy has been overly reliant in exporting kawaida goods to Uganda and Tanzania.However, over the same same years, Tanzania and Uganda manufacturing sector has grown exponentially. They(UG, TZ and Rwanda) no longer import cooking oil,detergents,biscuits,diapers,cement,juice, mabati, assembled cars and other kawaida goods that they used to import from Kenya. If you doubt me, look at latest Kenya trade statistics. Long gone are the days where almost all FMCG's found in supermarket shelves and village shops/dukas in TZ and UG were labelled "made in Kenya". Tanzanians for example no longer drink Bidco cooking oil as they used to.They now have Said Salim Awadh Bakhresa to manufacture such goods for them locally and export excess to Kenya. Jubilee government through the KRA/KPA allowing importation of washing detergents e.g., Fasclean, pampers(e.g., Moflix diapers), cooking oil etc from China,turkey etc has not helped matters. This nonsense cannot be tolerated in TZ for instance.

Our main export is tea to Pakistan and UK and this too under sieke from Rwanda as you correctly put it. Tourism is another area that is also under immense pressure. Just recently we saw data that the over-exploited/overated Maasai Mara is no longer number one. Wazungus now prefer the less crowded Serengeti on the other side of the river.

In my opinion Tanzania is the economic powerhouse of East Africa and soon Uganda might trash KE once their oil starts flowing to China. Rwandair is also seeking to get a license to fly direct to USA and this coupled with a new airport might spell doom to Kenyan aviation industry as a whole which Mikoz and MJ tried to salvage but failed.

Kenya needs to re-invent itself quick but in the meanwhile waKenya tukule jeuri yetu kimya kimya.

Allan Kilavuka, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Kenya Airways’ subsidiary Jambojet Limited, has been appointed as acting KQ Plc CEO effective January 1, 2020, until a substantive holder of the position is recruited. He will remain Jambojet CEO too during the period.