Kenya Airways Adds Capacity to Seychelles

Posted 12/07/2011

Kenya Airways has this week added a third weekly flight to the Seychelles from its hub at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.  The airline already offers two flights per week to the island archipelago, a popular tourism destination, but has now added a third weekly rotation. 

Kenya Airways is currently the only mainland African flag carrier to offer non-stop flights to the Seychelles, a market it carried an estimated 11,000 O&D passengers in the past year.  However, it carried a further 5,000 passengers to or from the Seychelles that were beginning or ending their journeys away from the Kenyan capital.

“Kenya Airways has worked with the Seychelles Tourism Board to keep the doors of Africa open for Seychelles and for the door to Seychelles opened for all those linking Africa and Seychelles.  They have never been shy to get Africa to work with Africa so that Africa can continue to get stronger and stronger,” said Alain St.Ange, Chief Executive Officer, Seychelles Tourism Board.

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