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Why KQ has defied pressure to abandon West Africa route
Kenya Airways CEO Titus Naikuni (left) addressing the Press at JKIA August 14, 2014 where he announced that the airline would not cancel flights to West Africa. He was flanked by Health secretary James Macharia (centre). PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI | NATION
National carrier Kenya Airways Thursday resisted heavy pressure to stop flying to key West African markets in the wake of a deadly Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in the past six weeks.
The airline instead announced that it would continue flying to Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria — the epicentre of the epidemic that has been abandoned by some of the world’s major airlines including British Airways and Lufthansa — but would enhance its surveillance of the passengers.
