Kenya Airways has announced an additional 26 weekly flight frequencies between its hub at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and destinations across Africa and Europe for the 2018 summer season, compared to the winter season schedule.
In the months of July and August, the airline will have two additional night flights to Amsterdam, per week and two other extra day flights to Paris, France.
To cater for increasing demand, the airline will further introduce four weekly flights to Mauritius effective 7 June, 2018 and three non-stop weekly flights to Cape Town effective 6 June, this is in addition to the existing seven weekly flights connecting via Victoria Falls and Livingston.
There will be three additional night flights to Accra, Ghana and Freetown, Sierra Leone effective August this year. Other destinations that will have additional frequencies include Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Maputo and Entebbe.
Last year, Kenya received about 1.3 million international tourist arrivals which was a 17 percent increase compared to the previous year. All the destinations worldwide received a total of 1.1 billion international tourist arrivals.