Relaunched Uganda Airlines hopes to win slice of East African travel - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The country is banking on its emerging oil industry and the traditional tourism sector to generate international traffic to sustain the airline.

The airline will initially fly to seven regional destinations in Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, South Sudan, and Burundi, the CEO said ahead of the inaugural flight to Kenya’s capital Nairobi.However, Uganda Airlines will face stiff competition not only from Ethiopian Airlines but also from Rwanda and Tanzania which have also poured cash into their flag carriers in the past few years, though with far less success than Ethiopia.

Its revival will “reduce the cost of air transport and ease connectivity to and from Uganda,” Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda said at the ceremony. The airline received its first two CRJ900 planes from Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier in April. Two more of those planes are expected next month, according to the airline.

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