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    "id": 919589,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/919589/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "One, we found out that Kenya is losing its market in aviation. We are losing our competitiveness in Africa. What demonstrates that? What was presented to this Committee is as follows: Within the last six years, the share of traffic at JKIA in East Africa dropped from 50 per cent to 34 per cent. That is not something to celebrate. It cannot be celebrated. Bole International Airport, which is our closest neighbour in Ethiopia, grew its market share from 30 per cent to 44 per cent. If you look at the mathematics, they were actually taking our share. In policy, we were losing in aviation. Two, KQ’s market share between 2015 and 2017 dropped by 4 per cent, while the market share of Ethiopian Airline was growing by 20 per cent. We are losing in aviation. Those are the facts and facts do not lie. We went on to establish that within the last decade, can you imagine our neighbour Ethiopia, which is smaller in economy than our own country… We did not want to look at massive airlines like Qatar Airways for primary comparison. We wanted to look at what is within our local territory. Their airline tripled in terms of passengers. Just look at the figures. Within the same time, they increased their passengers to 10 million while our own KQ carried only 4.8 million. That is a country that has a smaller economy than our country. We are losing in aviation. It is even getting worse. We were given other facts. All the people who appeared before us were sharing the same conclusion that we are losing in aviation. We found out that Ethiopian Airline has gradually grown and currently, it has 153 destinations and a fleet of 100 of them. When you compare with our KQ, we have only 53 destinations and only 40 aircraft. Nothing more than that! The picture is not very good for our country. KQ was also making losses because of the model they were operating in, and it cannot be allowed to proceed in the same manner because we will lose as a people of Kenya. I said that in my introductory remarks. Currently, we only operate 45 routes in Africa. Our competitors are operating 77 routes and above. There are so many examples that I can continue to give. Members can find them in the Report. We then realised that it is true we are losing in aviation. That is a very sad state. What does that mean in simple terms for a layman? While we continue losing in aviation, KQ and our hub - which is JKIA - will collapse. When KQ is collapsing, it means airlines in other countries are growing in aviation. Countries like Ethiopia, Rwanda and Qatar will then pick us from Nairobi when going to Europe. We will pass through their countries first and then later deliver us to Europe where we will be going. That is not where Kenya wants to go. Therefore, we realised that there is a problem in aviation. That is how we approach this debate. We will help our country. When my Committee realised that, we decided to take action. That is why we came up with the recommendations which I have just mentioned to you. So, why did we go the nationalisation way? There were two reasons why we went that way."
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