{"id":29662,"date":"2026-03-23T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29662"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:48:41","slug":"kenya-airways-says-iran-war-has-led-to-demand-hike-for-its-flights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-airways-says-iran-war-has-led-to-demand-hike-for-its-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Airways says Iran war has led to demand hike for its flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya Airways said on Monday demand for seats on its flights had jumped \u200bdue to the effects of war \u200cin the Middle East, with most of the gains coming from Europe, the United States (US) and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The US-Israeli war \u200bon Iran has upset the global \u200baviation industry, prompting some airlines to raise \u2060fares and change their schedules to reduce \u200bstops at airports in the Middle East, or \u200bto cancel flights altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Airways said demand for seats on its flights, known as load factor, was now almost \u200bat 100% from around 70% in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We \u200bwere like this until February. Then it significantly increased. We \u200creached \u2060up to 90% total, 90, 99,&#8221; George Kamal, acting Chief Executive Officer of Kenya Airways, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so the most we see the gains are \u200bcoming from \u200bEurope, from \u2060the US and Asia. Those routes are contributing positively, very positively, \u200bto our network now,&#8221; Kamal added, \u200bwithout \u2060giving any further details.<br \/>\nKenya Airways has about 56 days of jet fuel supply and is making \u2060efforts \u200bto obtain more from India, \u200bits flight operations head Paul Njoroge said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23814,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-29662","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya Airways said demand for seats on its flights, known as load factor, was now almost \u200bat 100% from around 70%.","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya Airways said demand for seats on its flights, known as load factor, was now almost \u200bat 100% from around 70%.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29663,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29662\/revisions\/29663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}