Information
has been obtained that Condor, the German charter airline, is planning to up
their current three weekly flights from Germany to Mombasa and on to Zanzibar
to four, come July.
While the
added seats will not make up for the loss of the charters from the UK, which
were halted in a panic reaction to a travel advisory issued by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, which going by common undertones from Kenya was aimed at nothing
else but to inflict pain and damage on the Kenyan government and by
prolongation the tourism industry, at least will it allow for greater numbers
of German tourists to come and visit the Kenyan coast.
Although the
flight moves on from Mombasa to Zanzibar, an East African island destination
with growing appeal in Germany, has the announcement rekindled hope among the
tourism and resort stakeholders at the coast and reaffirmed the strategy to
continue working existing markets alongside new and emerging markets to
showcase Kenya as a safe and desirable destination for tourist visitors.
Charter
flights to Mombasa from Europe started to fizzle away from as early as February
this year due to a lack of demand and with many tour operators no longer
willing to guarantee the minimum number of seats needed to operate such charter
flights without incurring losses, several airlines decided to cut down on
flights to reduce their risk, leaving the Kenya coast for the first time in
decades short of flight capacity to fill the resort beds.
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