Revival of the National Airline receives thumbs up
The two Bombardier CRJ900s were received on 23rd April, 2019. Uganda revived the National carrier which had ceased operations and this year it is practically kicking off.
President Museveni while addressing the nation at Serena Kampala Hotel, said commercial operations are expected to commence in
July, 2019. While the other two Bombardier CRJ900s are expected in July and September and recruitment of key staff for the National airline is completed, the president assured Ugandans.
In the transport sector, the president said the government moved to solve the issues of air-transport. He explained that Ugandans like traveling. He said that each year, they were donating US$450million to other countries through foreign travel.
“Besides, there was a lot of inconvenience to traveling Ugandans by not having direct flights and even being charged discriminatively air fares. Since Banks were wasting our time, we paid cash,” he said.
Two air-crafts, bombardiers, are ready here and
another two will come in the month of July and September, 2019.
These will be for regional travels. We shall, straight away, go for inter-continental flights to a few high volume destinations of travellers to and from Uganda.
“We are acquiring 2 Air-buses for that purpose. Those will come in December, 2020 and another one in January, 2021,” President Museveni asserted.