I fail to understand why one would want the national carrier dead, someone once said “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
it’s understandable that sustaining national carrier is no walk in the park -the airline industry is fraught with difficulties eg Governments restricting competition, case in point being that it took the total collapse of Air Malawi for Kenya Airways to be allowed to operate flights between Malawi, High cost etc. http://www.afdb.org/en/b...african-airlines-12723/

Look at the brighter side! Africa’s air transport industry is dominated by three large national flag carriers, South African Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways. There is an intangible warm feeling for many customers in boarding an aircraft that represent elements of their own national culture and possibly with the national flag on the tail and many countries provide generous subsidies to their national “flag” carriers.

Govt is doing its best. http://www.businessdaily...4/-/l14yi5/-/index.html

KQ has always been profitable. If I could I would buy the entire airline and make it tick. Rapid expansion and the attendant corrupted environment did us in.. However, at the moment we are on track to profits in less than 9months. The audits have also strengthened control. PJT are yet to show the silver bullet, which would turn fortunes.. Let's wait and see

the name KQ alone is worth about 112 billion. your ideas sound fine but in utopian state

COO interviews done...I believe they have gotten a proper replacement for Guibert.

KQ is a global trademark. Even Msafiri alone could be worth KK which is a regional thing that struggles for market share in its home territory unlike KQ which is a dominant player at home and beyond. Hizi profit zitakuja, just wait and learn

Sealed.

@nzalela, It seems you have some privileged information regarding KQ, what about the flaws in fuel procurement? Have they been addressed? What is bedeviling KQ is what we have said here - internal bleeding and competing interest from many players including employees and the political elite through proxies.

The proposal by @VVS is practical and it depends on which angle you look at. The goodwill that KQ have from suppliers, passengers, employees and other stakeholders is very huge and I understand. It will take a tall order to get rid of the management totally and the many conflicting interests surrounding it. With respect to AOC, It can be done especially if it has the backing of the government, transfer of assets can be done gradually. If KQ management was serious enough, Jambojet should be having it's own AOC. They never anticipated that Fastjet will be given a go ahead to fly to Nairobi. You remember they had filed an objection but when the new director general of KCAA took over and the matter came before him, he granted them. Fastjet will also get an AOC very soon as they recently got the ASL and they will start domestic flights in Kenya. It is about leadership. The pilots even raised the issue of Jambojet AOC with KQ management when they were in a tug of war with leasing of the Q400 with pilots (wet lease). Ideally, an airline without an AOC cannot enter into a wet lease agreement.

There are some bottle necks that will arise in respect to what @VVS is proposing. The anticipated full clean up of contracts wont be realised in full. The loans used to acquire majority of the new aircrafts are guaranteed by shell companies and it is only when the repayments are done in full that the title of ownership is transferred to KQ. From the latter, the new outfit 'phoenix' as @VVS calls it will still assume these contrasts unless a huge capital injection to the new outfit is done to pay off these loans.Many other issues to be dealt with will arise e.g. employees who will be declared redundant. If they move to court, the new outfit may not escape liability although it will be a different corporate entity from the old KQ.

Everyone but the shareholders make money off KQ.

@Nzalela @maka @Obiero

1) If you believe in KQ, do you have most of your net worth in KQ?
2) Does Mbuvi have shares in KQ? How many?

@Obiero talks the talk but has very little invested in KQ.

@Obiero - Do you get perks/upgrades/paid by KQ or any of the PR folks?

@obiero you mean to assert that KK is a new, abnormal zombie at the exchange?