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Article: Kenya Airways Makes Profits
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 23, 2000
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Kenya Airways has posted a pre-tax of 2.8 billion shillings
(about 36.4 million U.S. dollars) for the financial year ending
March 2000, the airline's chairman Issac Okero has announced.
Addressing the airline's annual general meeting here Friday,
Okero said his airline was among the most profitable organizations
during the year, with many others in the industry reporting massive
losses, the government-run newspaper Kenya Times reported Saturday.
The management of the airline has embarked on a fleet
modernization and expansion program, which will spend more than 750
million dollars in acquiring modern aircraft to compete more
favorably in the market, Okero said.
Earlier this month, Managing ...