Kenya Airways cancels most flights due to pilots’ strike
Kenya Airways announced the cancellation of most of its scheduled flights on Monday, on the third day of a strike by the airline’s pilots who are demanding better working conditions and payment of unpaid wages during the pandemic.
The government threatened Sunday to take disciplinary action against employees who continue with the strike, which began Saturday at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, despite a court order to the contrary.
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“Due to the ongoing illegal industrial action by the Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa), most of our flights have been cancelled,” Kenya Airways (KA) said in a statement Monday.
The strike compounds the difficulties faced by Kenya’s national airline, which has been making losses for years despite regular injections of millions of dollars by the state, AFP reported.
Kenya Airways, owned by the Kenyan government and the Air France-KLM group, is one of Africa’s largest airlines, linking several countries with Europe and Asia.
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