Real price of keeping Kenya in the skies

Kenya Airways planes at JKIA

KQ planes on the taxi bay at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. 

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

When you see the Kenya Airways (KQ) red tail in a foreign airport or listen to its jingle after many weeks away from home, it sends a certain warm and indescribable feeling to anyone.

Few stop to think about what it takes to keep a national airline in the air. For KQ, the reality is a high-stakes balancing act of capital investment, global regulation, and operational complexity.

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