This archive report was first published on 7 December 2021.
Published on December 7, 2021, Kenya Airways is still struggling to pay its pilots full salaries, according to the airline's chief executive officer Allan Kilavuka.
Only employees earning a maximum of Sh. 80,000 per month are being paid their full salaries, while those earning above this amount are currently on a 30% pay cut.
"It depends on the cash available not on the increase because you could go to 60 per cent and it is low quality yield," Kilavuka explained. "So, what we are doing is modeled how much money we need in terms of cash so that we can get closer to 100 percent."
Despite the financial challenges, Kilavuka pointed out that the company is doing better than before, with domestic flights operating at 90% capacity and international flights at 52% of its projected capacity.
"I would like us to go to 100 percent, but we also have to continue operating so that the improvement I am talking about can continue increasing," Kilavuka said.
The Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa) has written to the airline's chief people officer Evelyne Munyoki, urging the airline to pay its pilots full salaries, citing the carrier's improved performance in business in the last few months.
