This archive report was first published on 14 May 2020.
Published on May 14, 2020, Kenya Airways has nearly doubled air ticket prices for repatriating Kenyans stranded in Britain.
Passengers will now pay £771 (approximately Sh101,000) to fly back to Nairobi from London, a significant increase from the £430 (Sh53,495) charged on May 4.
This makes it the most costly chartered services of all the repatriation missions that KQ has offered to Kenyans scrambling to return in the wake of coronavirus.
For comparison, passengers from Mumbai and Guangzhou paid Sh46,005 ($430) and Sh80,242 ($750) for one-way tickets a week ago.
According to Kenya Airways, the price difference is due to the fact that the May 4 flight was ferrying cargo to and from the United Kingdom, allowing the airline to balance out operating costs between cargo and passenger services.
