Kenya Airways will be operating a daily non-stop flight to New York with the inaugural scheduled for October 28th with the commanding pilot being Irene Koki Mutunji.
Ms. Koki will be making history again in Kenya as the national carrier stated that it expected the flight between Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA ) and New York 's JFK to play a critical role in returning it to a profit making territory. She made history back then by becoming the first female on the African continent to become certified as a captain of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Aircraft.
Kenya Airways acknowledged captain Koki Mutunji as a lady of substance, a lady of many, she set the pace for others in the aircraft industry when she was hired as their first female pilot in 1995 and served as the only female pilot for six years consecutively.
In 2004, she became the first African woman to become the captain of a commercial aircraft, when she qualified to command the Boeing 737. Also in September 2014, Ms. Koki was among the 39 pilots at Kenya airways out of a total of 530 as she was the designated captain on the Nairobi to Paris route on the B787.