Its peak season for the flower industry with today 14th February being the culmination of the surge in demand as the world celebrates Valentine’s day
Kenya has had to grant foreign airlines permission to lift more cargo as it faces capacity constraints to deliver on demand. With a capacity of 3,200 tons, meeting the 5,200 tons of weekly capacity needed this season has been a huge challenge according to Bloomberg news
Ethiopian Airlines and Qatar airways, 2 Cargo giants in their own right have been the beneficiaries of Kenya’s efforts to ease its capacity constraints and meet the demands of flower producers who make most of their money from exports this time of year
Bloomberg reports that Ethiopian Airlines was granted 24 flights and the Qatar Airways five “extra ad-hoc flights” between the end of January and mid-February.
Meanwhile, Nairobi based Astral Aviation one of Africa’s biggest and fastest growing Cargo airlines also added more cargo flights out of its hub, doubling its outbound flights to Europe and increasing frequencies to the Gulf
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