Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) CEO Titus Naikuni has publicly suggested that it would be best for his airline to merge with the other two large African carriers Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) and South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) to create a big airline group able to effectively compete with the big three European airlines and competitors from the Middle East.