{"id":230148,"date":"2026-04-12T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-air-france-boosts-nairobi-capacity-on-rising-travel-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:56:09","slug":"kenya-air-france-boosts-nairobi-capacity-on-rising-travel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-air-france-boosts-nairobi-capacity-on-rising-travel-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Air France Boosts Nairobi Capacity On Rising Travel Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Air France will increase passenger capacity on its Nairobi route from May, deploying a larger aircraft to meet growing demand for travel between East Africa and Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The airline said it will introduce a Boeing 777-200 on the Nairobi-Paris route from May 15, replacing the Airbus A350 and boosting seat capacity by 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi is among key cities gaining additional capacity under the airline&#8217;s 2026 summer schedule, alongside Asian destinations such as Tokyo, Singapore and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100396.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Air France will increase passenger capacity on its Nairobi route from May, deploying a larger aircraft to meet growing demand for travel between East Africa and Europe. The airline said it will introduce a Boeing 777-200 on the Nairobi-Paris route from May 15, replacing the Airbus A350 and boosting seat capacity by 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7832,9156,6796,7617,4960,4688,430,259,257,6678,254,5123],"class_list":["post-230148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-boosts","tag-capacity","tag-demand","tag-france","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-travel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}