Kenya Airways launched a daily nonstop flight between New York and Nairobi in late October (I reviewed the inaugural flight from New York to Nairobi). This was an airline that was on the verge of liquidation just over a year ago, so this was certainly a point of pride for the airline. Inexplicably, the airline…
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The fascination with JFK is something that I cannot understand. I recently stumbled upon an article which talks about Biman Bangladesh and Pakistan Airlines wanting to restart direct flights to JFK. At the same time Air India now flies 10x weekly to JFK. Where is the market?
Interesting video clip and the other news stories were a bonus little peek into what is going on in Kenya. I hope the route stays.
I booked two RT business class tickets using Korean Air miles for a June/July 2019 safari. Unfortunately, my outbound to NBO is on a Thursday. Do you know what my options are? Do you recommend proactively switching given the high sunk costs on lodging, etc? Thanks!
Safari season in Masai Mara starts around June and last till September/ October depending on migration pattern which changes yearly due to weather. That’s when Americans go to Kenya in hoards. It makes a lot more sense for KA to do three times a week until June then go daily over summer/ early fall. Doesn’t take a brain to figure that out. Hope they stick around for awhile. I can see myself taking KA from NYC to Nairobi when I go to Safari again instead of routing through Heathrow although BA F is more comfortable than KA J.
Not surprising at all. The market is limited at best, even to NYC, and Kenya Airways is an airline that seems in chronic crisis.
It would be interesting to hear if/where those connecting on from that flight head to... does JFK offer connectivity on partners/Delta? Although not as glamorous and “game changing”, would a flight to Atlanta do better for one stop connections on Delta?
@Lucky
As I have already said before, CEO Kenya Airways Mr Mikosz is a guy from Poland and he used to be (twice!) CEO of Polish Airlines LOT, from where he was fired a couple years ago. You presented a video with his interview, criticising his opinions and views, but it must be something else in this matter. He is quite smart guy, he knows this business quite well. He is a very good friend of Richard Quest from CNN. Do you think that its possible that he plays such foolish businessman role instead of his Kenyan colleagues? Or even their goverment? Or he does everything to get more money for himself and he will return to Poland quickly when Kenya Airways will collapsed quickly?
Luck please stop with the Monday night quarterback analyst of airline management. You are starting to sound like Gary at (AVFTW). neither of you have any airline experience other than riding in the back of a plane, and that does NOT make you an expert on all things airline related. Let the bloggers who specialize in that area to that (like Cranky).
Stick to your strengths, which is reviewing the overall experience.
@Rob, ditto that. Not only Lucky has no aviation industry experience, he has no corporate experience all together. When a CEO talks like this, it only mean one thing, he is saying I was right and they were wrong. If he made all of those decisions himself, he would have a complete different tone.
Paul- good evaluation . Sacked from LOT airlines , perhaps he will be sacked from Kenya Airways as well ?
Sebastian Mikosz pretends he knows aviation but in fact he does not. He is the most stupid and incompetent CEO I have met in my entire career. Everyone at LOT Polish airlines knows Sebastian Mikosz is rude, arrogant and make tons of wrong decision. He is the worst guy you can find in this world. He never turn around LOT in 2014 but simply used the compensation from Boeing and treated it as operating profit. LOT lost as staggering as US$70M in 2015 and Sebastian Mikosz used a stupid excuse to resign knowing he would be kicked out by the Polish government anyway. The board of Kenya Airways must be blind to offer the job to this fat pig from Poland. Anyway, I do not think Sebastian Mikosz will be able to keep his job at Kenya Airways. He will be fired again as like at LOT