Top CNN anchor Richard Quest is scheduled to fly on Monday to cover Kenya’s inaugural direct flight to New York.
Richard Quest is CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and presenter of Quest Means Business; the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money. Based in New York, he is one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team.
As a business travel specialist, Quest has become a voice of authority on subjects like the launch of the Airbus A380.
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) awarded Quest the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for his reporting on the travel business.
The celebrated personality is expected to fly the inaugural flight scheduled for October 28, 2018, for his globally renowned Quest Means Business show. The new flight path will cut down travel time from 22 to 15 hours. The carrier is hoping the highly anticipated direct flights to the US will boost tourism.
Quest is also the face of CNN’s coverage of major UK news events. In 2012 he guided an international audience through the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations live from the banks of the River Thames and used his expert knowledge of the British Royal Family to front the channel’s coverage of the 2011 marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Quest Means Business is Nairobi bound! @richardquest will come to you live from Kenya this Thursday and Friday! pic.twitter.com/A1UxCiJdQX
— Quest Means Business (@questCNN) October 21, 2018
His coverage of breaking news, which has spanned two decades, has seen him report on a range of stories from, the death of Yasser Arafat, the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 crash to the death of Michael Jackson. Quest is more than just business; there are few journalists who have had guests as varied, from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama to actress Joan Collins to founder of Playboy Magazine, Hugh Hefner.