A thunderbolt just struck me after reading about KQ losses in another thread. The usual annual KQ losses report.
Why exactly did Uhuru construct a very slow SGR whereas customers could be air lifting cargo from Mombasa to Nairobi and elsewhere?!
Why not boost KQ by investing in efficient affordable cargo planes and also expand Mombasa road to 6 or even 7 lane dual carriageway?
Reli zinaisha fashion lakini wewe unajenga a very expensive reli, ilhali you have a very huge airport and a very BROKE airline in need of work and money!!!
Recently someone here wrote of how the American railway line has diminished in size and use due to competition from air and road transport. And he was absolutely right, it’s all about speed & efficiency now and not that much about the size of what you can pull. Size is very important of course but people want it now! Today! This very minute! Eggs from Naivasha, milk from wherever,make it happen, now please!
It’s all about DHL and Fedex now… President Uhuru, rail and sea are dying, people are looking for someone who can ship their product direct from Singapore or China right to Nairobi in one day!
Sio ichukue a whole week by sea then a whole day by SGR! We are competing with other fast growing economies, and air is very efficient. How many times have I seen people on ktalk asking whether there is a way to get stuff from amazon, Alibaba and other websites… yes there is a way and it’s called Kenya Airways Cargo, lakini wamelalia maskio. Instead people talk of freight services from Somalia. Somalia!!
KQ is always talking about restructuring sijui new CEO… what you KQ mofos need is new business!
Mmewachwa na wengine kabisa. Singapore airlines was born in 1947.
Kenya Airways was born in 1946 as East Africa airways. Kenya airways at the time had even much more growth potential than Singapore because it had been created to serve 3 nations and very vast interests.
Yet today, wacha tu. Singapore airlines is highly profitable, very diversified and they are cushioned perfectly to survive financial strains in the aviation sector. They even have contracts to overhaul engines and construct new components in state of the art facilities. What does KQ their agemate have? A parasitic, one sided marriage with KLM, bloated redundant staff and services, zero diversification…
Most workers at KQ and KAA I think are cleaners na waliwekwa hapo na mtu wao. No research facilities. Not even just one flight academy or aviation business school since 1947! Shule moja tu?!! A school that could train pilots, caulinary experts, aviation business executives etc and at the same time rake in a few millions per year. You still send pilots to very expensive schools in S.A. and elsewhere.
Not even a renowned taxi and bus shuttle service to rake in a few more cents. Angalau just one executive hotel to shore up profits. Nada… zilch… zero! Na ati you’re the same age as Singapore Airlines. KQ should’ve already financed and constructed light rail services from the airport to surrounding towns years ago from its own kityy.Singapore Airlines holding company Temasek Holdings is actually a govt. sovereign fund. Yaani Singapore Airlines is so well run, it’s like the equivalent of oil to the Singapore people. Zile pesa bakshish za kujenga mashule na hospitali na for future generations. And its absolutely independent of govt. inteference unlike here in Kenya where KQ is a personal ATM for people in power and a place to reward larkies with jobs.
Singapore airlines saw the future. In 1992 (very
recently) they invested in air cargo proper. And in those few and very short years, they are world leaders in air cargo. A small fleet size in the cargo division yet they move millions of tonnes through their cargo super hubs. And they fly all manner of distant destinations ferrying all manner of goods.
KQ meanwhile only does cut flowers and michiri to one or two destinations. A paltry 65,000 tonnes a year. Thats like 2000 containers a year. That’s the same amount of containers Meria mata transports in 2 or 3 years of hard work. One man vs a whole airport!!
Oh, and they even rewarded themselves for such paltry figures. And the worst part is, most of that 65000 tonne cargo isn’t even ours ni chakula ya U.N. na vitu za wazungu. A whole airport!
Trailer zimelemewa kwa barabara na mvua na jam, Mombasa road being so narrow… East Africa’s gateway yet, next to that road is thousands of unused acres of airport land with very underworked aircraft and very jobless pilots just chilling at home and sending applications every other day to Wilson to look for a chance to transport miraa to war torn countries and yet somebody just poured several billion dollars into a new and very slow railway line and he now wants to force people to use said railway line…
Only in Africa do you get that kind of thinking. Americans are abandoning rail and going the Fedex, DHL, Amazon drone route… nyinyi mnaenda the exact opposite: the slowest mode of transport. Si afadhali hata kupanua Mombasa Road to 6 lanes of dual carriage-way both ways Meria Mata akitaka kuendesha 2 trucks at the same time side by side anafanya hivo. He should find himself driving all alone from here to Busia with no jam at a constant 120kph. He is moving East Africa’s product na yet amekwama kwa jam.
Sasa juu driverless trucks are on the way, a real reality where a convoy of trucks will be following each other with one driver, what will happen to this expensive SGR?
Drones are also coming. Its only a matter of time before very fast “freight drones” come.