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Uganda Airlines Takes to The Skies, Maiden Flight Lands at JKIA

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Early today, Uganda Airlines made it’s first flight that took celebrities, politicians, and journalists to Jomo Kennyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Kenya.

The Uganda Airlines CRJ900 5x Kob Bombadier left Entebbe International Airport a few minutes after 11:10 am after being flagged of by Prime Minister, Dr.Ruhakana Rugunda and the Minister for Works and Transport, Monica Ntege Azuba and was expected to touch ground in Kenya 45 minutes later.

At the function, President Museveni in a speech read by Prime Minister Rugunda said the national carrier will earn government an extra $450 million that was in the past going to other airlines.

“Each year, Ugandans were donating $450 million to other countries through foreign travels and this is a lot of money,” Museveni said in his speech delivered by Rugunda.

“There has never been a better time to resume commercial flights than now when the number of passengers is increasing every day.”

The Uganda Airlines commercial flights that begin on Wednesday will go to Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, and Mogadishu.

Other destinations including Kilimanjaro, Juba and Mombasa will be added later.

According to the Works Minister, other destinations including Khartoum, Kinshasa, Kigali, Lubumbashi, Harare, Lusaka, Addis Ababa, Zanzibar and Johannesburg will be added after the arrival of the other two CRJ-900s aircraft set to arrive in September.

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