Managing an airline in Africa is like getting lost in the wilderness. This is why within a few weeks and after camping in KQ to discuss the underlying issues, he came to a conclusion that someone with the necessary aviation experience should take over immediately.

KQ has never had real competition in Kenya.. Even the losses have always been manufactured

it didn't take MJ more than a month to figure out you need a manager with sugnificant airline experience at the helm of KQ. We have said it here for so many years yet the ownership took such a poor gamble of putting an engineer and manufacturer and they wonder what hit em.

To lead a competitive firm you will now need good grounding in that industry as a bare minimum. Same mistake with Uchumi before and possibly now.

No competition yet airlines do do badly.

Ideally the Concorde should have raked in Billions in profits yet it folded shamefully after swallowing Billions in French and British taxpayers' money.

The Concorde was an aircraft [like 787] so not comparable. I think the only operators were BA and Air France as their governments funded the program. The Tupolev also died and not sure if anyone but Aeroflot operated them.

Lakini @Obiero - one of my best decisions was taking the loss on KQ. That money was deployed to KK and KenRe. The moment I realized the management of KQ were crooks and board was nothing but incompetent... I tried to warn folks.

That's why when someone "accuses" a management/board of incompetence/thievery, I take notice. Where there is smoke, there is a chance of a fire. Of course, it may just be hot air but it is MY money at risk.

IMHO, 70% of firms on the NSE are "non-investable" ... [KQ, Olympia, Mumias, Kurwitu, Marshalls, etc]

Of the remainder, some are over-priced [but good firms eg EABL & BAT] while others are for those who can sit and wait eg Unga and KenRe. Some eg FTGH are still too new. Some eg ARM need time before we can assess where they are headed.

If flying is profitable, supersonic flying should be super profitable and the airlines operating supersonic flights hyper profitable... Get the drift.

Air France and BA both retired their Concorde fleets. Think about that... the only airlines running supersonic passenger flights dropped, rather than added more.

Why, how does GoK benefit from frauds at KQ?

Concorde was killed by the US. Please read the literature and understand.

a colleague was asking me< KQ planes are almost full almost all of the time on all the routes they operate on the fares are not exactly cheap, though service on board is top quality, then WHY is the airline in trouble? and what was the foolishness of selling the Heathrow spot.