Kenya Airways strengthens relations with Air France-KLM

Kenya Airways has expanded its joint venture with Air France KLM within East Africa. This new deal will allow KLM and Kenya Airways to jointly implement further commercial synergies, optimize networks and schedules to better jointly serve these markets. The expanded cooperation will be effective from January 1, 2014, and the two carriers will add four new routes to the present arrangement, increasing the total KLM – Kenya Airways joint venture flights to six routes. From next year, the four new routes will be London – Nairobi, Amsterdam –Entebbe/Kigali, Amsterdam – Lusaka and Harare and the Amsterdam-Kilimanjaro/Dar-es-Salam routes, the latter