If you asked me to give you the main reason Kenya Airways has remained in financial doldrums for a whole seven years, I will answer without thinking: inability by the main shareholder — namely, the government — to face up to the scale of the company’s problems and unwillingness to take hard decisions.
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, airlines world over have been busy rightsizing their businesses by reducing fleet sizes, grounding planes, cutting unprofitable routes and executing massive staff lay-off.
