Kenya Airways flies to Cape Town, South Africa via Livingstone

KENYA Airways has added a new destination to its network and will now
fly to Cape Town South Africa with the three weekly flights between
Nairobi and Cape Town beginning July 2016.
The new route will be Kenya Airways second City in South Africa after
Johannesburg and will be linked to Livingstone in Zambia, the gateway
to Victoria Falls.
Kenya Airways’ Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mbuvi Ngunze says Kenya Airways flight will depart Nairobi at 7.20am,
arriving in Livingstone at 9.30am, departing Livingstone 10.20am to
arrive Cape Town at 1.25pm. Return flight will take off from Cape Town
International Airport at 2.15pm, arrive Livingstone at 5.10pm and
depart Livingstone at 6pm and touchdown Nairobi 10pm.
He says the service will operate on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
“Kenya Airways will be the only carrier to offer a direct service
between Livingstone and Capetown and the route will offer excellent
connections to the Kenya Airways network. The route will be operated
by Embraer E190 with a configuration of 12 business class seats and 84
economy class seats,” he says.
Mr Ngunze says “We are excited to add a new destination to our
network. We continue to connect Africa to the world and the world to
Africa. Cape Town via Livingstone will offer our guests two holiday
destination on one route”.
Kenya Airways in March announced several flight scheduling changes
that are expected to boost connectivity for passengers in Africa by at
least 20 percent.
He says Kenya Airways will now operate more hours of the day following
the opening of the runway last month, thereby ensuring efficient use
of its aircraft and crew.
Through this, Mr Ngunze says there is room for an increase in flight
frequencies to some cities in its network, especially in Africa and
that there will be more flights during the day make for more options
to connect between destinations.
He says the rationale behind this is to augment operations as the
company seeks to return to profitability in the next two years.
“In the last two years we have improved fleet utilization by 30 pays
by re-looking at our schedule and enhancing it to suit our customer
needs,” says Ngunze.