Kenya Airways pilots extended their strike into a second day Sunday, forcing further flight cancellations as the company warned of disciplinary
Kenya Airline Pilots Association secretary general Murithi Nyagah, gestures during a media brief, amid strike by Kenya Airways pilots organised by-KALPA, at their offices next to Jomo Kenyatta International airport in Nairobi on November 5, 2022. – Kenya Airways flights were disrupted on November 5, 2022, as a strike by its pilots demanding better working conditions grounded over a dozen planes, affecting thousands of passengers, the country’s transport minister said.
On Saturday, the airline’s managing director and CEO, Allan Kilavuka, urged the protesting pilots, who make up 10 percent of the workforce, to return to work by 10:30 am on Sunday.The airline, part owned by the government and Air France-KLM, is one of the biggest in Africa, connecting multiple countries to Europe and Asia, but it is facing turbulent times, including years of losses.
But the KAA insisted late Saturday that “staff have reported on duty and operations at all our airports are normal.”The pilots’ strike has thrown over 9,000 passengers’ plans into disarray, according to the airline, with travellers turning up to the Nairobi airport on Sunday, only to find out that their flights were cancelled.
On Monday, the airline won a court injunction stopping the strike, but an official at KALPA, which has 400 members, told AFP the pilots “were acting within the provisions of the law” and that they were yet to be served with a court order.
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