Uganda\nAirlines will start commercial operations in August according to the Minister\nof Works and Transport, Hon Monica Ntege Azuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She\nsaid that the national carrier will start operations to Nairobi, Dar-salaam and\nMogadishu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese\ndestinations will be operated first to orient staff and service providers on\nUganda Airlines procedures and standards. Immediately after that, other\ndestinations will be added and they include, Kilimanjaro, Juba, Bujumbura and\nMombasa.,\u201d said Ntege Azuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Azuba\nadded that after delivery of the additional two aircrafts in September,\nBujumbura, Kinshasa, Khartoum, Addis Ababa, Zanzibar, Kigali, Harare, Lusaka\nand Johannesburg will be the other destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nnational carrier was expected to start commercial operations in July 2019\nfollowing the arrival of two CRJ900 Bombardier aircrafts in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Azuba\nsaid that the airline has been working towards completing the five-phase\ncertification process required to acquire \nAir Operator Certificates(AOC), which shows that the crew can fly safely\nto any part of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis\ntakes approximately 90 days to complete. This informed the initial timeline to\nstart commercial operations to be July 2019. Considerable progress has been\nmade and the airline is currently at phase 4,\u201d said Ntege Azuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She\nadded that the targeted date for issuance of the certificate by Civil Aviation\nAuthority is 28July 2019, \u2018meaning that Uganda Airlines can fly after that\ndate\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBookings,\nreservations, ticketing and accounting systems have been activated in a test\nenvironment. Issuance of Air Operating Certificates will trigger activation of\ncodes in a live environment. After getting live mode, its only then that\ncommercial flights will start,\u201d said Ntege Azuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She\nalso said that the national carrier does not have the capacity to handle cargo\nservices, and as such, one of the companies operating at Entebbe international\nairport has been procured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWithin\nthis time, Uganda could not set up cargo handling facilities because of\nshortage of finances and equipment. We advertised and out of the three\ncompanies operating cargo handling services, one of them will provide for\nthis,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\ncompany will later take delivery of two airbus aircrafts that will be used to\noperate on the long haul routes to Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Uganda Airlines will start commercial operations in August according to the Minister of Works and Transport, Hon Monica Ntege Azuba. She said that the national carrier will start operations to Nairobi, Dar-salaam and Mogadishu. \u201cThese destinations will be operated first to orient staff and service providers on Uganda Airlines procedures and standards. Immediately after that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":10187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"\n