KQ Salary Rates: The troubles that have bedeviled national carrier Kenya Airways are far from over. The carrier has now come out to confess that it is struggling and unable to pay its pilots and workers full salaries.
This comes barely two months after the national carrier resumed payment of salaries in full. According to KC chief executive officer Allan Kivaluka, KQ workers will get pay cuts in their upcoming pay. Kivaluka said that workers salaries will reflect cuts that were there in the November 2021 payslips.
“We are still constrained financially and in the interest of prioritizing staff salaries, the February 2022 salaries will be paid in percentages similar to the percentage paid in November 2021. We will owe the percentage not paid which the company will pay when we receive the funding from the government,” said Kilavuka in a recent memo to KQ staff.
“As I advised, we are yet to receive the disbursement of funds intended to support the company to strengthen its cash flow, support operations and speed up the reforms in the airline.”
Kilavuka added that the government has failed to disburse the Sh. 20 billion bailout package to Kenya Airways was allocated in the supplementary budget by the Treasury for the financial year 2021/22.
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This has prolonged the financial troubles the carrier is experiencing including the ability to pay pilots full salaries. Apart from the salaries, the national carrier had also asked for funds to settle utility bills such as security, maintenance of grounded planes, electricity and parking as well ease the effects of the virus that has obliterated global travel.
