Uganda Airlines is to take on its maiden intercontinental flights to Dubai on October 1, 2021, using its pair of the new state of the art A330-800Ns fleet.
Through the airline’s social media posts, the flight from it’s hub, Entebbe/Kampala will be conducted tri-weekly (3 days a week). Flight UR444 is scheduled to depart Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, according to the ch-aviation schedules module. It has been timed ahead of the start of the World Expo hosted by Dubai from October 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022.
The airline’s acting chief executive Jennifer Bamuturaki previously said the target market would be business travelers and migrant workers travelling to the Middle East.
The flight will be the airline’s first commercial trip out of Africa. Initially planned for July 16, 2021, the inaugural flight was twice rescheduled due to delays caused by COVID-19 travel restrictions and regulatory delays in the certification of the two A330s.
As reported, Uganda Airlines eventually managed to add the two A330-800Ns – 5X-CRN (msn 1979) and 5X-NIL (msn 1977) – to its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) in August 2021, allowing it to plan for flights to Dubai, to be followed by services to London Heathrow, Mumbai Int’l, and Guangzhou.
The state-owned carrier currently serves 10 regional cross-border routes including Bujumbura in Burundi; Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, and Zanzibar in Tanzania; Johannesburg O.R. Tambo in South Africa; Kinshasa N’Djili in the DRC, Mogadishu in Somalia; and Mombasa and Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya, according to ch-aviation schedules data.
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