Nairobi, 2015-1-12 — /Travel PR News/ — Kenya Airways has today flown 170 health volunteers in two chartered flights to Freetown, Sierra Leone and Monrovia, Liberia. The two flights chartered by the African Union will fly via Accra, Ghana.
Speaking after a visit to State House, Nairobi, with the health officials, Kenya Airways’ Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Mbuvi Ngunze said it was a privilege to be chartered by the AU to fly the Kenyan health officials to the Ebola hit countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia.
“We are incredibly honored by the AU who is our corporate client. We won the bid to fly the health officials who are on a mission to assist our brothers through the crisis”.
He added, “This mission in West Africa is an important example of African fighting spirit. It is about Africans finding solutions for Africa. It is important us as Kenya Airways, as we are keen on sustainability of Africa”.
Mbuvi acknowledged that this mission may facilitate Kenya Airways re-entry into the two markets, whose flights were suspended by Kenya Government in August following the breakout of Ebola in West Africa.
Two flights, KQ 1510 and KQ5100 on B737 aircraft left Kenya at 12.30pm and will arrive in Monrovia and Freetown at 6.30pm this evening.
About Kenya Airways
Kenya Airways, a member of the Sky Team Alliance, is a leading African airline flying to 51 destinations worldwide, 42 of which are in Africa and carries over three million passengers annually. It continues to modernize its fleet with its 41 aircraft being some of the youngest in Africa. This includes its flagship B787 Dreamliner aircrafts. The on-board service is renowned and the lie-flat business class seat on the wide-body aircraft is consistently voted among the world’s top 10. Most recently it has scooped top awards at the Africa Investor (Ai) Tourism Investor Awards and was declared the Business Airline of the Year in Africa. Kenya Airways takes pride for being in the forefront of connecting Africa to the World and the World to Africa through its hub at the new ultra-modern Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. For more information, please visit www.kenya-airways.com.