National carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) has announced an 8% increase in its employee base last year, bringing the total workforce to 4,705 individuals.
- •The airline’s workforce largely consists of employees in the 30–50 year age group, accounting for 72% of the total.
- •44% of the workforce are women, a 2% increase from 2023, and 82.9% of the workforce are now on permanent contracts.
- •Despite an employee turnover rate of 4.82%, KQ integrated a significant number of new talents in 2024, with 12% new hires joining the company.
“We are firmly on track to achieve our 25% women in leadership target by 2025,” the airline’s CEO, Allan Kilavuka, said.
According to sustainability report, 75% cases reported by whistle blowers were resolved, 2% remain open while 22% were unsubstantiated. Some the reported issues include fraud, conflict of interest, discrimination, accounting irregularities, product quality concern, theft of company assets among others.
Kenya Airways made a pretax profit of Ksh 5.53 billion in 2024 after more than a decade of losses, helped by significant foreign-exchange gains.
A big driver of the improved performance in 2024 was foreign-exchange gains of KSh 10.55 billion, versus a loss of KSh 15.04 billion in 2023, as the local currency strengthened more than 20% against the dollar last year.
