Kenya Airways posted flat growth in passenger numbers for the period ended June 2016.
KQ flew 894,240 passengers during the period, representing a growth of 0.6 per cent from the year before as its two Boeing B777 planes dropped off the fleet after their sale to a US airline.
“Despite the reduced capacity the airline increased the seats flown during the period by 1.6 per cent to 1.58 million due to efficient use of aircrafts,” KQ said in a statement.
Passenger numbers in West Africa increased 28 per cent to 85,079 while in Central Africa and North Africa there was an increase of 20 per cent and two per cent to 44,887 and 48,628 respectively due to higher frequencies and capacity.
It reduced capacity to Middle East and India 28 per cent by replacing the wide body B77s and B878s with B737s which have narrower bodies.
Capacity on Europe also declined 17 per cent with the replacement of the B777s with the more fuel efficient B787s and change of operations on the London route where it sold it landing slot at Heathrow airport.
