Kenya Airways has announced plans to launch direct flights from Nairobi to Malabo, the capital city of Equatorial Guinea.
The new scheduled services will operate twice weekly departing every Tuesday and Sunday from October 18th 2009. This new route makes Malabo the 45th destinations served by Kenya Airways. Other destinations that Kenya Airways has launched in the recent past include Ndola, Zambia which was unveiled to connect London, Mumbai, Accra, Dubai, Nairobi, Hong Kong and New Delhi. KQ has embarked on an aggressive network expansion with recent route additions being Congo-Brazaville and Libreville; launched in March and June this year respectively. In August this year, the airline launched the Gaborone, Botswana route. The airline operates three daily frequencies into Johannesburg, South Africa and double dailies to Lusaka, Zambia; 10 flights a week to Lilongwe, Malawi and Harare, Zimbabwe and three weekly flights to Maputo, Mozambique.