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    "id": 1341545,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1341545/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Article 50(a) of this Convention increases the membership from 36 to 40, while Article 56 also increases the membership. The Chicago Convention has several rights. It talks about issues on flying over airspaces of different countries, the freedom of those flights to fly over there and to land without even disembarking of the passengers in another country. It also talks about flying back from a foreign country to your country and disease control matters from one country to another. These are issues that are critical in civil aviation. When Chicago Convention was adopted initially, it had four Articles. Subsequently, they have increased to nine. I will now go to the local aviation industry. When Members are contributing about our pride of Africa, which is the Kenya Airways, they feel that it should be a real pride of Africa in terms of making profit. It should be a profit-making organisation. When they are flying from our country to another country and the various destinations, following this Chicago Protocol, they should look at profit-making destinations, but not loss-making ones. When many of the Members fly all over, they use Kenya Airways. They fly to countries where other airlines go to. Ethiopian Airline makes profits. How come Kenya Airways does not make profits? This Convention also talks about the State-owned aircrafts in the civil aviation industry. I remember in the last Parliament, there were some amendments on nationalising the Kenya Airways. It is high time we considered that. When you compare Kenya Airways with our neighbour’s, the Ethiopian Airline, which is a national carrier makes a lot of profits. Kenya Airways is also a national carrier. What is wrong with our national carrier that it is not able to make profit and compete effectively in the various destinations with other flights? Those are issues that the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure should look into The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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