Air France-KLM Partners Kenya Airways For Wider Connections To East Africa




Air France-KLM Group has extended its partnership agreement with Kenya Airways in an effort to offer the Group's customers wider connections to East Africa. 
To this end, effective January 1, 2014, the joint-venture will cover six routes between Europe and East Africa. They include Amsterdam-Nairobi, Paris-Nairobi, and London-Nairobi. 
Others are Amsterdam-Entebbe/Kigali, Amsterdam-Lusaka/Harare, as well as Amsterdam-Kilimandjaro/Dar-es-Salaam.

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