KENYA AIRWAYS EXPANDS SOUTH AFRICAN DESTINATIONS THROUGH CODE SHARE DEAL WITH KULULA
(Posted 10th April 2014)
Aimed to open up South Africa for travelers arriving in Johannesburg with Kenya Airways, has the airline now signed a wide ranging code share agreement with South Africa’s innovative low cost carrier kulula, renowned for their often quirky commercials.
Kenya Airways’ will with immediate effect place their KQ code on all of kulula’s domestic destinations, which apart from Johannesburg include such destinations like Cape Town, Durban, George and East London, while the kulula code will now appear alongside Kenya Airways’ flight numbers from Johannesburg to Nairobi, giving them the added range to sell tickets all the way to East Africa.
Gerard Clarke, Kenya Airways’ Commercial Director, commented: ‘We are confident that our respective customers will benefit from the partnership by providing them with more convenient booking and travel options within South Africa. We are excited to be working with kulula and look forward to further expanding the relationship to include more travel options in the future’ while kulula’s Stuart Cochrane responded: ‘The code share agreement with Kenya Airways is an extension of the interline agreement we entered into in 2013 and is in line with kulula’s medium-to-long term strategy to grow our distribution footprint in Africa in a sustainable manner whilst at the same time providing more choice for our customers’.
Main beneficiaries will be passengers, from both South Africa and Kenya, which will see the range of destination suddenly leap forward, opening up multiple additional airports which can now be reached.
For more details visit www.kenya-airways.com and www.kulula.com
kulula (A Zulu word meaning ‘easily’) is South Africa’s only privately owned low cost airline and is operated by Comair Limited. This highly recognized brand, now flying for over 13 years, has since inception stirred up air travel in South Africa by making flying both easier and a lot more affordable to customers. kulula is IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) compliant, the global safety benchmark that ensures that a high standard of safety is upheld. kulula has since 2010 been upgrading their fleet to Boeing B737-800NG’s configured with 189 all economy seats fleet and presently operates more than 400 flights a week across 14 domestic routes, all of which can now be reached in conjunction with a Kenya Airways ticket.
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