Kenya Airways was founded in 1977 in Kenya. Kenya Airways’s headquarters are currently located in Nairobi and the main base in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Kenya Airways is not a star alliance member. The company has 3 stars on Skytrax rating. Sebastian Mikosz leads the company as the CEO. Its subsidiaries include Portugalia Airlines, Tap Express, Groundforce Portugal and Tap Maintenance & Engineering.

Kenya Airways employs more than 3,986 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 40 aircraft. It has declared $ 1,053,000,000 in revenue. Kenya Airways offers service in 53 countries and they have carried more than 4.5 million passengers in 2017.

Kenya Airways’s fleet consists of Embraer 190/195 model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 7 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Boeing 787 at 4 years old. They rank 47 among 54 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Embraer 190/195 with 15 of them at hand. They rank 19 among 63 airlines operating this type of aircraft.

Kenya Airways have 2 accident reports to date. The most recent one is in 2007 at Near Douala Airport, Cameroon with Boeing 737 Next Gen aircraft.