The delivery of two Bombardier CRJ900 jets is the first move in relaunching the national carrier that collapsed in 2001
Newly acquired Uganda Airlines Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft stand on the runway at Entebbe Airport on the outskirts of Kampala on April 23 2019. Picture: AFP/ NICHOLAS BAMULANZEKI— The first two planes purchased in a bid to relaunch Uganda Airlines were delivered on Tuesday, nearly two decades after the East African country’s national carrier collapsed.
“We are very happy that what we started months back to restart the national carrier has begun bearing fruit,” said works and transport minister Monica Azuba Ntege at the ceremony. “The 90 days will include demonstration to the [Ugandan] civil aviation authority that we have the proper airline premises, trained staff, maintenance provision, equipment to run an airline, and systems for the safe and secure operation of an international airline,” Bagenda said.
But some local politicians have expressed fears that the airline could suffer the same fate as it did in 2001, when it closed down after suffering from corruption and mismanagement by political appointees.
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