“Ni Hao #Guangzhou! A toast to yet another great milestone! Uganda Airlines has been granted landing rights to China! Cheers to a new world of greater connectivity! #Uganda Airlines,” this was an excitement text shared on the company’s social media handles for its at secured landing rights at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, a major airport of Guangdong province, in Southern China.
The flag carrier of Uganda will for now fly once every week to China due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Airline’s Public Relations Manager, Shakira Rahim, noted that the frequency will be revised once the restrictions are eased.
“For the safety of the passengers, we shall start with one flight a week and then progress. For now, we are still discussing several issues internally. So, we have not yet fixed the date when we should start,” she said.
Uganda Airlines resumed flying in August 2019.
After the delivery of the first Bombardier CRJ900 in April 2019, the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority on 27 July 2019, awarded Uganda National Airlines Company with an Air Operator Certificate, finalizing a five-step, three-month certification process that cleared the airline to commence commercial operations.
Centenary Group and Service Cops Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Digital Financial InclusionOn 2 August 2019, the airline announced the launch date as the 28th of the same month, with flights to Nairobi, Mogadishu, Dar es Salaam, Juba, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa and Bujumbura.
On the morning of 28 August 2019, Uganda Airlines had its first commercial flight from Entebbe to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
On 13 November 2019, the airlines launched the first flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport; thereby completing the first phase of operations to seven routes which was started with flights to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport nearly three months earlier.
On 16 December 2019, the company commenced regular commercial passenger service to Zanzibar in Tanzania. The three-times-weekly service, brought the airline’s destinations to eight in the second phase of route expansion.
On 18 December 2020, Uganda Airlines launched commercial flights to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The three times weekly operation increased the airline’s expanding network to ten destinations.
