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    "content": "Committee was relating for us the other day how he was looking for a ticket just to go to Johannesburg and the cost of the ticket was more expensive than going to New York and back. On KQ -- you can get an economy class ticket to Guangzhou and back on Emirates at Kshs60,000; but for KQ, from here to Kigali, it is over Kshs60,000. If this airline has to survive, it has to change tactics; even calling itself a dominant African Airline is fallacious. Innovative thinking management like Ethiopian Airlines, has a subsidiary in West Africa that simply flies Cotonou, Lagos, Bamako, Dakar, Free Town and then offloads the rest of passengers to Etihad to fly to Ethiopia and elsewhere. These days, KQ--- even their routes to West Africa, let us not be told that Ebola affected the airline; it did not. Ebola came the other day when the Airline was already on its knees. If Ebola did, why did it not affect Ethiopian Airlines or Emirates that also flies to West Africa? Today, if you take a flight from Nairobi to Accra, Ghana, you will be lucky if you have one third loads on the flight. Why? Because we are overpriced, our services are poor, the flights are delayed, and above all, even the configuration of our cabins. You are given a ticket and you are told that you are going to sit in business cabin. The difference between business and the rest of the airline is a little funny looking curtain separating the front of about five rows and the rest of the airline and nothing else. You cannot run an airline like that. If you go to airlines like Emirates, a First Class is truly first class, a business class is truly a business class, it is not defined by a funny looking curtain that separates one area of the cabin from another. I urge the House to adopt the Report. However, adopting the Report is not enough. The Committee on implementation must follow the adopted Report to the logical conclusion to see that we save this Airline as a carrier and bearer of our national image and name. Get proper people to manage the Airline and hold those who have brought the airline to where it is accountable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support."
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