The airline has also ordered nine Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to be delivered by 2014 partly financed using proceeds from the Rights Issue successfully concluded in June.
KQ uses Embraer aircraft on domestic and short regional routes including Kisumu, Entebbe, Kigali, Bujumbura, Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Maputo, Gaborone, Kilimanjaro and Nampula.