Uganda civil Aviation have it that Kidepo is to be up graded and that tender offers to re-gravel the CAA-owned and operated field in the Kidepo Valley National Park. Flying into the remote park, which is located in the border triangle between Uganda, Kenya, and the Southern Sudan, is the easiest way to reach there, [...]
A significant number of travellers by air are often afraid of flying even under ordinary circumstances. But even the bravest of hearts would be shaken if their destination was Kidepo airfield in the north eastern Ugandan district of Kaabong. Pilots to this airfield are now forced to use mobile phones to communicate with airfield controllers [...]
Emirates Airlines has won four international accolades, for its excellence in passenger in-flight entertainment, from the World Airline Entertainment Association’s (WAEA) Avion Awards at an event hosted in California -United States of America. Emirates was the outright winner of the top award in the passenger-voted category of Best In-flight Entertainment in the World – Large [...]
The most recent Airline, Air Uganda has started its direct flights from Entebbe to Zanzibar. Originally, passengers boarding from Entebbe had to first go through Dar-es-Salaam before proceeding to the islands. The Commercial Director Vittorio Scabbia said that travel agents have seen a dramatic increase in passenger traffic to Zanzibar, but the problem was about [...]
Kenya Airways,†the pride of Africa,†is to start flying to Monrovia in Liberia via Accra. The flight route will operate with effect from March, 28th, 2007 .It will be scheduled every Wednesdays and Saturdays. For all along the Airline had no flight to Monrovia in as much as it had flights to some other [...]
Expansion and renovation of Entebbe International Airport in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will cost sh76b, upon its completion. Civil Aviation Authority’s Ambrose Akandonda recently revealed that all heads of state will land at a new Very Very Important Persons (VVIP) terminal that is currently under construction at the old airport, [...]
British Airways (BA) has been voted best airline in the world. This was done by approximately 13,000 readers of a United States travel magazine, “Global Traveler.” B.A became apparent as the top choice during a survey of 13,653 travelers, as part of the comprehensive study of today’s travel market. Global Traveler surveyed its readers between [...]
The European Commission yesterday removed a Thailand and East African airline from its list of carriers facing bans in European Union (EU) skies. The Thailand based Phuket Air and DAS Air Cargo/Dairo Air Service of Uganda and Kenya were detached from the list in its third update ever since it was drawn up last year, [...]
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