KQ Offering Non-stop Flights To Cape Town From June

The national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ) will starting June expand its wings to Cape Town, South Africa.

KQ will be offering non-stop flights to Cape Town with the first flight scheduled for June 6, 2018.

Boeing 737-800 aircraft will operate this nonstop sector 3 times a week. The flight will depart from Nairobi at 3.35pm and arrive at Cape Town at 8.20pm. The return flight will take off from Cape Town at 10.15pm and touchdown Nairobi at 5.00am.

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The airline will however continue its 4 weekly one stop service via Livingstone, 3 weekly one stop service via Victoria Falls launched in July 2016.

The carrier is also expected to start direct flights from Nairobi to New York in October with tickets going for as low as Ksh.84,000. Return tickets will retail from Ksh106,000.

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