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VIDEO: Flight Captain Mike Mukula has lashed out at Civil aviation authority for frustrating the need to have more local private players in the country’s airline industry.  Mukula who claims that the Civil Aviation Board comprises of unqualified individuals, is concerned that the government is spending millions of dollars on expanding …

VIDEO: Entebbe International Airport is to attract more foreign flights including the World’s biggest passenger airliner, Airbus A380. Civil Aviation Authority Communications Manager Igie Igundura confirms, saying that once the expansion works are complete, the passenger airline that was designed to challenge Boeing’s monopoly in the large aircraft market, will …

NBS: The Civil aviation authority has responded to government plans to revive the national carrier saying its survival will depend on whether or not political leadership chooses to interfere. In this report, Richard Olwenyi takes a look at the five hurdles that Uganda is likely to face in reviving the …

ATC News by Wolfgang H. Thome President Yoweri Museveni, when addressing the first cabinet meeting of his new government, reportedly told them that ‘because our brothers in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa let us down‘ the formation of a national airline was now a priority. (Read FULL Museveni speech here) …

NBS: By end 2013, reports suggested that government was planning to revive Uganda Airlines. It remained speculative until government confirmed the reports, although without a concrete plan on how this would be done. It now seems that president Museveni wants focus put to this in his latest term. While addressing …

The long awaited 5th African Airlines Association Stakeholders Convention was launched Saturday night at the Kigali Serena Hotel  and Conference Centre with an informal get together cocktail party, allowing old friends from across the continent’s aviation and related businesses to meet and share updates from their lives and from their …

By Independent Team Investors, gov’t moot $450m plan as experts warn on turbulent skies Uganda has recently been considering some quite dramatic developments in its aviation sector but, analysts warn, it could be flying into some foul weather without a risk-management plan. In July, Parliament approved a request by the …