Kenya Airways expects much better performance in H2 of this year, helped by an improved business environment, and after prolonged election uncertainty in Kenya in H2 2017 hit passenger numbers. The airline, which is 7.8% owned by Air France-KLM , reported a pretax loss of 3.99b shillings ($40m) for H1 2018, from a loss of 5.77b shillings during the same period last year. Kenya Airways this year changed its financial reporting period to match the calendar year. Previously its financial year was to the end of March. Comparisons given in its first-half results were with January-June 2017. In H2 2017, Kenya Airways’ domestic and intra-Africa passenger traffic dropped because of jitters over Kenya’s presidential election in August. The election was subsequently nullified by the Supreme Court and a rerun held with President Uhuru Kenyatta elected for a second term. “August is already behind us. I can confirm we are already much better than the previous August, in terms of traffic, in terms of domestic growth,” CE Sebastian Mikosz said Wednesday.<br/>