A Kenya Airways airplane.[Photo/the-star.co.ke]National carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) plans to start marketing direct flights to the United States later in the week.
The airline will begin selling tickets on the new route from Thursday.
Travellers will have an opportunity to pre-book the inaugural and subsequent flights slated for later in the year.
The airline’s chairman Michael Joseph said it would issue detailed information tomorrow on the much-awaited flights, including commencement dates.
The direct flights are a culmination of lengthy talks between Kenya and the US and have been punctuated by numerous false starts, with the latter imposing strict conditions, including an upgrade of the security systems at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
KQ was granted a permit to operate direct flights by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) in September last year.