Kenya Airways Refuses To Suspend Flights Over Ebola

Kenya Airways has rejected pressure to suspend its flights to the Ebola-hit states of West Africa.

This is coming after the World Health Organisation, WHO – which declared a global health emergency last week – recently said that the risk of transmission of Ebola during air travel remained low, as the disease is not airborne.

This has been eliciting reactions from the media in Kenya.

Mutuma Mathiu in The Daily Nation describes the move as “reckless” while The Star says the airline is “holding on to its lucrative West African routes as if they were the only business on its portfolio”.

The Standard notes that while it makes business sense for Kenya Airways to take advantage of West African destinations, the “economic escapade could be costly.”

However, George Bodo in Kenya’s Business Daily recalls the carrier’s ailing share prices, and says that in calling on Kenya Airways to suspend nearly half of its high-margin flights, someone should, ideally, be ready with some form of compensation.

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