Kenya Airways (KQ) hired 598 additional employees in the year ended December 2023, marking the second straight year of increasing its headcount and effectively restoring the jobs it had cut when Covid-19 pandemic grounded planes and forced it into retrenchment and hiring freeze.
The airline’s latest disclosures show the new hiring saw it close December 2023 with 4,828 employees, overtaking the 4,775 workers it had in 2019 before mid-February 2020 when Covid-19 pandemic disruptions triggered massive job cuts.
