With operations being so abnormal and unpredictable, coupled with travel restrictions on different destinations, Uganda Airlines has pushed its expansion plans to earlier suggested new routes to the end of the year.
Uganda’s national carrier which flies regional routes such as Kinshasa, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Juba, Mogadishu and Kilimanjaro, was set to start long haul trips by July from its hub at Entebbe to Europe, India, China and the Middle East, with its new Boeing aircraft but these have now been pushed to September and December later this year.
The country is undergoing a vicious second wave of the virus and already two countries, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, to which its national carrier intended to fly this year, have slapped bans on direct flights from the country. The airline had earlier targeted four destinations – Mumbai, London, Dubai, and Guangzhou.
According to Airline officials, the airline could not fly to Dubai as earlier scheduled in the first week of July because Uganda is among the countries on UAE’s red list. “Flights to Dubai have been moved to September,” they stated.
Direct flights to Heathrow London, a route to which the airline has been allocated five flights a week, will commence in December following a review of the UK red list. The airline’s entry will offer the only non-stop connection to the UK from the country, a market that is indirectly served by at least nine of the international airlines operating in Entebbe.
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