KENYA AIRWAYS BAGS ANOTHER CARGO AWARD
(Posted 12th May 2015)
Air Cargo News, the prestigious publication dedicated to air cargo services since 1983, has just awarded Kenya Airways their ‘African Air Cargo Airline of the Year 2015 Award’ for the third year running. This comes soon after Kenya Airways also bagged the STAT Trade Times ‘Best African Cargo Airline Award’ handed to them at the third biannual Air Cargo Africa event in Johannesburg in March.
It was the readers of the Air Cargo News magazine and web edition who voted for Kenya Airways, in other words an award earned by KQ as a result of delivering superior services to their clients across three continents, present served by Kenya Airways freighters and cargo services. More than 20.000 readers annual cast their votes for the winners and the event has been dubbed as the Oscars of the Air Cargo business.
This latest award was handed to Kenya Airways’ Katrina Hanson during a gala dinner last weekend at the Lancaster Hotel in London. Mr. Dick Murianki, General Manager of Kenya Airways Cargo, had this to say to this correspondent when breaking the news: ‘This award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone at KQ Cargo. We are delighted and honoured that we have been voted the best in Africa by our customers for the third year running. We aim to support the growing demand for air cargo business in Africa with enhanced levels of connectivity, flexibility, reliability as well as providing quality innovation solutions with a relentless focus on improving service to our customers’.
Africa remains at the centre of Kenya Airways’ air cargo operations and two converted Boeing B737-300 aircraft are now distributing and collecting cargo from the entire Eastern African region and many countries across the continent where the airline does not operate wide bodies aircraft with underbelly cargo uplift capacity. The airline also pointed out that their new route, as the first ever African airline to Hanoi, is expected to generate much additional cargo traffic from and to the Far East where partner airline Vietnam Airlines is providing the connections into China and as far as Japan.
