Any airline’s cargo division is unquestionably a successful business. Come the following fiscal year, 2023/2024, this will become one of Uganda Airlines’ business divisions, barely five years after its redesign.
Four new aircraft, including cargo planes, will be sent to the national carrier, according to the Ministry of Works and Transport.
Once acquired, Uganda Airlines’ fleet will increase to ten aircrafts. Currently, the national airline operates six aircraft, including two Airbus 330Neo and four Bombardier CRJ-900.
Bombardier’s CRJ-900, in contrast to the two Airbus aircraft, flies to brief regional locations such Nairobi, Juba, Dar-es-Salaam, Mombasa, Mogadishu, Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Kinshasa, and Bujumbura.
Uganda Airlines will buy two mid-range aircraft that can carry both passengers and cargo, as planned.
Richard Ndiku, the works ministry’s commissioner for policy and planning, revealed the development, and Bageya corroborated it.
The permanent secretary is Waiswa. Ndiku asserted that the acquisition of cargo aircraft by Uganda Airlines will promote the export of agricultural goods.
Waiswa, however, claimed that the ministry has created a Cabinet Paper on the purchase of two mid-range cargo and passenger aircraft for Uganda Airlines.
He continued by saying that the Cabinet must study and approve it.
When asked how much is anticipated to be spent on a new fleet for the national airline, Bageya said: “There are confidentiality clauses with suppliers.”
But after procurement is complete, a block figure will be disclosed, he added.
They said this in a press conference on Thursday about the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) manifesto commitments regarding the transportation and works sectors.
ADVANCEMENT OF OTHER AIRPORTS
The development and upgrading of three significant airfields, namely Arua, Gulu, and Kasese, to international standards is also being accelerated by the ministry. The group represents a few of Uganda’s airports with a respectable number of flight destinations.
