The introduction of flights to Kisangani brings to 47 the number of destinations that Kenya Airways flies to.

“Travelers on this route are expected to benefit greatly from the superb connections to Europe and Asia,” Kenya Airways Chairman Evanson Mwaniki said in Nairobi on Friday.

He said the provincial capital of Tshopo Province will also serve to connect tourists visiting Kananga, Kinshasa and other parts of the populous African nation – endowed with resources of vast potential wealth.

Investors dealing in minerals such as copper and industrial diamonds will find the route very convenient, he said.

Other routes that Kenya Airways has launched include Gaborone ; Botswana and Ndola ; Zambia which was unveiled to connect London, Mumbai, Accra, Dubai, Nairobi, Hong Kong and New Delhi.

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The twice weekly flights will depart from Nairobi every Thursday and Saturday.

Ndola becomes the 36th African destination in the Kenya Airways network with recent additions being to Congo-Brazzaville and Libreville launched in March and June this year respectively.

The airline will also launch the Gaborone (Botswana) route on September 4 this year.

Kenya Airways now operates three daily flights to Johannesburg (South Africa), two to Lusaka (Zambia),10 flights a week to Lilongwe (Malawi) and Harare (Zimbabwe) and three weekly flights to Maputo (Mozambique).

With a population of over 774,000, Ndola is the industrial, commercial, administrative and distribution hub of the Copperbelt, Zambia’s copper-mining region, and has one of the three internationals airports, the others being Livingstone and Lusaka.

“Travelers on this route are expected to benefit greatly from the superb connections that Kenya Airway’s network provides to destinations across Africa, Middle East, Far-East and Europe through its hub at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,” Naikuni told the press in Nairobi.

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