Two Kenyan doctors, who had travelled to India to visit their family, are stranded after they were forced to give up their seats to the sick on a Kenya Airways flight last week.
“I received news about a repatriation flight, I was excited and immediately booked tickets for my wife, our six-month-old daughter and I, but unfortunately KQ cancelled my reservation at the last minute,” Dr Rachir said.
Kenya’s High Commissioner to India Willy Bett confirmed that 17 Kenyans, who wanted to travel back home, were ejected from the KQ flight and replaced with patients and their care-givers before the plane took off.
Kenya Airways operated a single flight that picked up patients from India at a subsidised rate of Sh 85, 894 for a business class ticket and Sh45,635 for economy.
Linda Mugo, 26, a student who came to India in February 2020 for internship, which ended in April, says Kenyan officials told her she could not fly home.
