The Covid-19 pandemic has been of great impacted especially to the global air travel as countries have shut their airspace and imposed internal lockdowns seeing hardly no flights in and out countries. Uganda Airlines has not been left out.
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown Uganda Airlines expansion strategy to a partial standstill. Earlier on, the airlines had expansion plans of having its carrier fly to nine new routes starting April 2020. However this will wait a little longer considering the impact and effects of the on-going corona virus pandemic that has seen the airline suspend all its functioning.
The postponement comes at a time when Uganda Airlines had earlier on March 28, 2020 concluded all preliminary plans to commence on work at stake beginning with Kinshasa, Goma and Lubumbashi routes all in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Speaking about the issue, Uganda Airlines board chairman, Mr Perez Ahabwe said that earlier talks between Uganda Airlines and the aviation teams from Democratic Republic of Congo had progressed and dates set for the Crane to start flying this April.
“By the end of April, we had anticipated to have the carrier fly to Lusaka, Harare and Johannesburg and to this effect, we had secured office space in Lusaka to start of the process,” Mr Ahabwe commented.
Other routes include the Khartoum – Sudan, Cairo- Egypt and Hargeisa in New Somali Land which were to start by the End of June- 2020
Until last month, Uganda Airlines has been flying to seven routes including Bujumbura, Nairobi, Mombasa, Kigali, Mogadishu, Juba and Zanzibar with an average of five flights a day per plane accounting between 49-50 flights per week in the region.
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