Kenya: Hanging Kenya Airways Pilots Return to Work

Kenya Airways pilots returned to work on Wednesday, after a court docket ordered them to finish their strike which had led to tons of of flight cancellations and stranded 1000’s of passengers.

The strike, which started on Saturday, added to the woes dealing with the closely indebted nationwide provider.

“The strike is off, we’re again to work,” a spokesperson for the Kenya Airline Pilots Affiliation (KALPA) instructed the AFP information company on Wednesday, hours after a Nairobi court docket ordered the union to finish the walkout.

Kenya Airways’ newest on-line replace says most flights had resumed on Wednesday, and it mentioned on Twitter it must be working usually by 12 November.

Officers at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta Worldwide Airport mentioned the airline was nonetheless struggling to clear the backlog from earlier flight cancellations.

“We’ve got had a number of flights take off on schedule in the present day after the pilots resumed work,” an official on the Kenya Airports Authority defined.

“Issues are getting again to regular,” he mentioned.

The dispute has added to the challenges dealing with Kenya’s just lately elected President William Ruto, who has inherited a rustic already battling a cost-of-living disaster and an unprecedented drought.