Nairobi, Feb. 21 -- Parliament has slashed a further Sh1 billion from the financial support to Kenya Airways (KQ), dealing the struggling national carrier a blow.

The Treasury had in the supplementary budget reduced the KQ's State support by Sh10 billion to Sh20 billion as the exchequer begins unwinding bailouts to the company.

The House's Finance and National Planning committee has further cut the capital injection to the national carrier to Sh19 billion.

"The committee proposes to reduce Sh1 billion from the Strategic Intervention Program (Capital Injection to KQ) under the National Treasury," Kuria Kimani, the chairman of the Finance committee, said in a report on the mini-budget.

"This reduction will decrease the allocation to the...