Kenya Airways pilots on Tuesday announced that they will down their tools come Thursday if KQ's Chief Executive Officer Mbuvi Ngunze will not have resigned.
The Kenya Airline Pilots Association (KALPA) gave the national carrier 48 hours failure to which services would be paralysed.
KALPA accused Mr Nguze of mismanagement highlighting: "We reaffirm the KALPA membership vote of no confidence in Ngunze and call for his immediate resignation”.
“It is KALPA’s position that definitive action has to be taken, once and for all, to steer Kenya Airways in the right direction,” the association added.
KALPA is demanding for a total clean-up of KQ's management that has been under severe financial challenges.
The strike could adversely affect the airline as it might lead to massive cancellation of flights.
The pilots faulted the CEO's style of leadership following the Sh11.95 Billion after-tax loss the national carrier recorded within six months in 2015.
In the 2014-2015 financial year KQ also recorded a pre-tax loss of Sh29.7 Billion.
KALPA Secretary General Paul Gichinga stated: "The strike will not be a go slow, the strike will be all tools down in 48 hours. No aircraft will be flown. We have talked to the chairman of the board and the CS transport...We started this conversation in December, we are in April yet we have not seen any changes".
Early this year, KQ declared 600 of its workers redudant in a bid to recover Sh2 Billion, a move that the association highly condemned.
In January, the association had threatened to stage an industrial action against the airline's management.
However, KQ later said that it had not received the alleged notice stating the scheduled demonstrations would be illegal.
