Emirates Airline has announced resumption of full passenger operations from Kenya starting Monday, January 10,2022.
In a statement to its customers, Emirates said all passengers travelling to Dubai must adhere to the Covid-19 travel policies which include presenting a valid negative PCR test certificate.
“All passengers must undergo Covid -19 PCR test on arrival and must remain in self quarantine until they receive the test result,” the airline said.
With the setting in of the Coronavirus pandemic, Kenya and the global aviation sector was largely affected, with passenger traffic in July 2020 recording a decline of 94 per cent in comparison to the same period in 2019 due to the pandemic.
Kenya’s tourism sector is poised for a stronger growth next year, Fitch Ratings forecasts, building on the 2021 rebound in international travel with full recovery expected by 2025.
The ratings and research firm projects a stronger growth of 47.3 per cent for 2022, as the recovery in global travel gains traction, followed by further double-digit growth through to 2025 to take international tourism arrivals to 2.2 million.
Rebound is pegged on increasing international travel after a slowdown last year, with global airlines including Kenya Airways (KQ) increasing frequencies and resumption of flights on routes that had been suspended at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, last year.
A slowdown on international travel saw Kenya’s tourism industry contract by 71.3 per cent in 2020.
Top market sources for Kenya include the US, UK, Uganda, Tanzania, China, India, Germany, Rwanda, France and South Africa.
KQ resumed flights to Mumbai in September after a four-month break that was occasioned by increased cases of Covid-19 in India.
It resumed flights to London in June after Kenya was removed from the Covid related red-list by the UK, and increased frequencies to two.
It is currently recalling some of its former employees who were affected by restructuring last year, as demand…