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Afreximbank in second phase of $1.9bn Kenya Airways financing
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) said on Tuesday it was in the second phase of a $1.9 billion financing for Kenya Airways, providing funding for 10 Boeing aircraft as the national carrier ramps up its fleet.
Afreximbank said it was in the second phase of a $1.9 billion financing for Kenya Airways, providing funding for 10 Boeing aircraft as the national carrier ramps up its fleet. Photo/FILE
BY Reuters
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) said on Tuesday it was in the second phase of a $1.9 billion financing for Kenya Airways, providing funding for 10 Boeing aircraft as the national carrier ramps up its fleet.
Kenya Airways, which is 26.73 per cent owned by Air France-KLM, picked Afreximbank in May 2012 to arrange financing for the purchase of ten Embraer-190 planes, nine Boeing 787-800 Dreamliners and one Boeing 777-300ER.
READ: KQ picks Afreximbank to arrange $1.9b planes purchase
The first phase of the financing, which consists of pre-delivery payments to the aircraft manufacturers, was concluded last November with the delivery of all the Embraer jets.
The first of the Boeing Dreamliners is due to arrive next month, and the rest by July 2015. Kenya Airways will deploy the first on its Paris route as part of a strategy to expand its European routes currently being served by ageing Boeing 767s.
Among the largest carriers in Africa, Kenya Airways is ramping up its fleet as part of a 10-year strategic plan premised on ferrying passengers and cargo into and out of Africa through its Nairobi hub.
Afreximbank co-ordinates the financing which also involves Citigroup and JP Morgan Bank.
Afreximbank in second phase of $1.9bn KQ financing
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Kenya Airways gets $240 mln in loans from government, Afreximbank
Reuters Staff
(Reuters) - Kenya has provided a 4.2 billion shilling ($40 million) loan to loss-making Kenya Airways , the country's finance minister said, while African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has approved a $200 million bridging loan for the airline.
The money is needed to support Kenya's national carrier, which has not made a profit in three years because the country's tourism industry has suffered fallout from a number of Islamist militant attacks.
The airline, part-owned by Air France-KLM, also has rising debts from new plane purchases and its losses for the year to March increased to 29.7 billion shillings from a 4.86 billion shillings a year earlier.
Kenya has estimated the carrier will need a $500-600 million bailout but a precise figure will depend on a turnaround plan being prepared by McKinsey and Seabury consultants.
Finance minister Henry Rotich said Kenya's government, which holds a 29.8 percent stake, had provided the 4.2 billion shilling loan to help the airline meet its operational requirements and pay off suppliers of fuel and other services.
The company told investors in July it had sought the $200 million loan from Cairo-based Afreximbank.
"This short term facility will be received in two tranches of $100 million each," Finance minister Henry Rotich told a committee at the Kenyan senate on Tuesday.
"Once the long-term capital requirements are firmed up based on the approved turnaround plan, the government in consultation with other shareholders will review its options, including equity injection and/or loan guarantees," Rotich said.
Until its problems of the past few years, the carrier was regarded as a model of successful privatisation after its listing in 1996 turned it into a profitable company. ($1 = 104.2000 Kenyan shillings) (Reporting by Drazen Jorgic. Editing by Jane Merriman)
Kenya Airways gets $240 mln in loans from government, Afreximbank
