If thats how you want to look at it then why is JPM trying to revive ATCL when the likes of ET, KQ,Emiratess, Qatar,KLM sufficiently serve the TZ market withough GoT having to incure any exenses,,, Wouldnt the money used to buy the new ATCL planes have been better used to solve Nutritional problems wich Tz is number 3 in Africa interns of stunted growth!!!
If KQ didnt exists would the other airlines have employed the 5000 direct employees employed by KQ ... eg engineers, pilots, flight attendants??? Without KQ, Nairobi wouldnt have been made the MRO center authorized to do repaires and maintenance for all the embrae e-jets in sub sahara Africa thus loosing such a luctrative business..
mbraer, Kenya Airways to Establish Authorized E-Jet MRO Service Center
By Darren Shannon, Aviation Daily | Nov. 28, 2012
Embraer has started negotiations with Kenya Airways to open the airframer's second authorized service center for commercial aircraft in Africa.
The talks are ongoing and are expected to be concluded mid-2013, an Embraer spokeswoman tells Aviation Week. The center will specialize in E-Jets, she adds.
No other details were provided, although the center is likely to be based in Nairobi.
If successful, Kenya Airways will join Egyptair as the second African carrier to be selected as an E-Jet authorized service center in Africa.
Kenya currently operates two of the 10 Embraer 190s it has on order, while Egyptair has its full complement of 12 E-170s.
Embraer, Kenya Airways to Establish Authorized E-Jet MRO Service Center
KQ flies 1 million tonnes of flowers out of Kenya, if the airline did not exist, it would have meant loosing foreign exchange everytime a cargo plane leaves Kenya to Europe,
Nairobi would also not be the MRO center for Boeing 737, 767, 777 in sub sahara Africa outside SA
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All these Airlines would hav had to fly their planes to Europe for Servicing including all the other local Kenyan airlines, they would all be contributing to devaluing the Kenyan currency by moving money elsewhere
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We have not even begun talking about the benefit of having KQ as a tool for diplomacy... How many countries especially in Africa, has Kenya been able to get on its good side just by connecting the citizens of that country to the rest of Africa and the world through KQ..... How many africans know Kenya because of Kenya airways...... Would JKIA be earning so much revenue for transit persengers were it not for KQ conncting them though ts Nairobi hub???? Remember how Sierra-Leone threatened to cut diplomatic ties with Kenya during the Ebola crisis if KQ suspended flights to the capital..
When KQ started direct flights to Livingstone island in Zimbabwe thus ensuring tourists wishing to see the Victoria falls on the island could travel directly to the island, The Zimbabwean govt was more than grateful for that, they even sent govt officials to come and personally thank GoK (Even though it was purely a KQ's decision)