Kenya Airways (KQ) has acquired a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the aviation world’s latest offering. The Dreamliner boasts 20 percent less fuel consumption.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the world’s first major airliner to use composite materials for most of its construction.
KQ’s latest acquisition is expected to create stiff competition in the East Africa’s aviation industry which has seen countries in the region scaleup their Aviation.
Africa is considered as the place of opportunity, with a very positive outlook by Aviation industry forecasts.
Boeing vice president Van Galliard described the 787 Dreamliner as a quantum leap in aviation technology.
KQ makes history as one of only two African airlines to have made concrete orders of the aircraft machine and the only two to have been on the Dreamliner’s world tour’s itinerary.
Wednesday over 200-plus dignitaries, including Kenyan government officials, stakeholders in the travel and aviation industry and journalists from 65 countries witnessed as the Dreamliner touched down at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
It is now only a matter of time before Kenya Airways receives the first of the nine Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes that it has ordered.
The test flight was on its second leg in Africa, coming from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where it first tasted the African airspace.
The first new plane in the 21st century is on a six-month tour of the world.
This month alone it is scheduled to make six stops in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Globally KQ flies to more than 45 destinations worldwide and the routes will soon be expanded, with the coming in of the 787 Dreamliner.
Kenya has also announced plans to increase its Boeing 737 and 777 fleets.
Boeing decision to produce more environmentally friendly fuels from oil fossil products is also in line with KQ’s green ambition.
The first new plane in the 21st century is on a six-month tour of the world. This month alone it is scheduled to make six stops in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Kenya Airways managing director Titus Naikuni, “We are moving forward as an airline. We now need the new terminal to come on stream to meet the new demands for space,” he said.
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