With new routes having been unveiled by Uganda’s national carrier, East Africa region’s aviation market is anticipated to getter stiffer with airlines competing for more customers to ensure better lifelines.
Earlier this month, Uganda Airlines publicized plans to introduce direct flights to Dubai in the Middle East, London in the United Kingdom, Guangzhou in China and Mumbai in India, a move that would discomfort Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, RwandAir and Air Tanzania all of which have trolled the same destinations for years now.
This was after the airlines received the first of its two Airbus A330Neo aircrafts to kick-start the long haul commercial flights.
“We are going places this new year, from Entebbe to popular destinations around the world… Dubai, London, Guangzhou, Mumbai… coming soon,” read the airline’s tweet on Jan 04. The pronunciation comes weeks after the carrier started flights to Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa starting Dec.18.
Uganda airlines also affirmed that Johannesburg, South Africa route, via Lusaka, Zambia, remain in focus for the rollout of the next phase of network expansion. Uganda Airlines aim to not only capture traffic from Uganda to South Africa and back following the withdraw of South African Airways on the route in Feb 2020, but also sell connections from South Africa via Entebbe to the planned long haul destinations in the Middle East, Europe and China.
To date, Uganda Airlines flies to eight destinations in the East African region including Mogadishu, Somalia, Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, Bujumbura in Burundi and Juba in South Sudan, among others.
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