Soaring oil prices deter airline 's development
Tourism is threate -ned
THE Managing Director of Kenya Airways,
Lord Cole, has disclosed that the last decade of
the 70s was difficult for the development of
travel and aviation.
Lord Cole said due to rising cost of fuel, the national
airline faced an uphill task and development will
almost be "incomprehensible" this year.
He added that this does not augur well for the tourism indu stry
in this country.
The Managing Director made
the disclosure in Nairobi on
Report by K.N.A]
Wednesday night during a
new year party hosted for
travel agents by the airline
at a Nairobi hotel.
Mr. Macharia commended the
During the party, also attended
President's unswerving fi ght
by the airline's Marketing
againstcorruption,
Manager, Mr. Okutoyi, the
smuggling,overcharging
Managing Director assured
and hoarding. "We believe
the nation that the
Your Excellency that this is
management was committed
yet another social milestone
to giving passengers the best
in building a modern
services and added that new
society", Mr. Macharia adroutes had been marked out
ded
• Livestock owners in Northin a bid to keep abreast with
the development of other
Easiern Province will
airlines.
benefit from the new prices
Lord Cole noted that the
for live animals which have
airline management fully
been increased by 12.5 per
appreciated the support and
cent, the highest in the
co-operation shown by
country.
TheProvincialLivestock
travel agents in the country
and said, "we both rely on
Marketing Officer, Mr.
each other for the future to
\arete Mbogori, said on
overcome the task that lies
Wednesday that the new
prices will be uniform in the
before us".
• The Kenya National Chamwhole province.
ber of Commerce and InThe old price for all live
dustry is committed to enanimals was Shs. 2.80 for
couraging the business comeach kilo but the new price
will be Shs. 3.00 a kilo for
munity to work hard
towards achievinc econornir
female and 3.15 a kilo for
independence, the chambers
male stock.
Chairman, Mr. Fracis
He urged cattle owners to
Macharia, has said.
show their appreciation to
Mr. Macharia said this in a
the Government by taking
new year message of
their livestock to various
congratulation to the
auction centres due to start
President, Mr. Daniel arap
in the province on January
7.
Moi.
Airport Chief
Confirms Report
THE Jorno Kenyatta Internat tonal Airport manager,
Mr. D. K. ole Nasieku, has
confirmed that the multiui illion electronic aircraft
parking syStem installed at
he airport at construction
does not work, but lie denied
that the airport was facing a
shortage of ground marshallers.
''The system, so far is not
working vet. But as far as we
are concerned, we have
enough mnarshallers'', Nasjeku told
The Nairobi
Time s
The electronic parking
svsteni, the AGNIS (Azrnuth
Guidance for Nose-In Stands)
and the PAPA (Parallax Aircraft Parking Aid), were intended to guide planes along
the taxiwavs and into the
-parking bays in the apron
area, thereby doing away
with the need for ground
rnarshallers. The equipment
failed to work and two official of the airport, the chief
operations manager, Mr. S.
Wamae, and the chief aerodromes engineer, Mr. V.
Davis, had asked the directorate of personnel managemnent in the office of the pre.
sident for more ground
rnarshallers until the equipment could become operational.
In his appeal, Davis said
the equipment would need
a lot of modifications before
it could be depended upon.
It is once again considered necessary that approach mnarshallers are essential since they have the
over-all control of the apron
parking and proper operations ',Davis said.
Nasieku, however, disagreed with this view. ''I do
not agree with the observations made by the aerodrou-nes engineer. If we had
no unarshallers, the situation
would be chaotic. But so far
we have not had any complaints front the airlines
operating at the airport, he
said.