The Uganda Airlines

 The Uganda Airlines

The Uganda Airline : is the flag barrier of Uganda which once operated from 1997 to 2001. The current carrier began flying in August 2019 whose headquarters are located within Entebbe International Airport that is in Wakiso District. 

Destinations

As a matter of fact, Uganda Airline flies to different cities. These include; Bujumbura in Burundi, Kinshasa in DRC, Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya, Mogadishu in Somalia. Johannesburg in South Africa, Juba in South Sudan, Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Dubai in United Arab Emirates, etc. It as well flies to intercontinental destinations. These include; Dubai International Airport, Mumbai International Airport, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Heathrow International Airport. In additionally, it also connects to airports in the Southern and Western Africa.

Travel schedule

It was reported that on the 2^nd of March 2021 Uganda airlines would commerce five times a week between Entebbe and London Heathrow on 28^th of March 2021 using the A330-800 equipment. In January 2022, the senior management of Uganda Airlines indicated that their focus is on the establishment of domestic services in collaboration with the existing domestic operators. This was with an aim of increasing on the number of destinations in DR Congo and Europe and establishing services to Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, China and India.

Fleet 

In February 2019, the first out of the four CRJ900 aircrafts that the Uganda Airlines had ordered, took the first test flight with the livery of the new Airline. On 5 October 2019, the third and fourth CRJ900_s, 5X-KDP and 5X-KNP left Montreal. Then to Canada and landed Uganda on 7 October 2019. Transportation of the first aircraft took place on 21^st December 2020. On the same date, Airbus handed over the first of two A330-841s that the airline purchased in 2018. Handed over to a commission of Ugandan government officials. This was led by General Katumba Wamala, the Ugandan minister of works and transport. A team of Ugandan pilots flew the aircraft, with a registration number 5X-NIL from Toulouse to France. Finally to Entebbe Uganda on the date 22 December 2020 bearing a flight number UR404.