Uganda Resumes Commercial Flights After Seven-month Suspension
Uganda on
Thursday resumed scheduled commercial passenger flights after seven months of
government suspensions over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vianney Luggya, communications officer of Uganda Civil Aviation
Authority, told Xinhua by telephone that the phased flight operations at
Entebbe International Airport, about 40 km south of the capital Kampala,
resumed after the government eased COVID-19 restrictions on aviation.
He said the first passenger flight to arrive at Entebbe airport
was Turkish Airlines, which landed at 3:55 a.m. and departed at 4:50 a.m. local
time.
"The flights have resumed today. We expect about 12 flights
today. In this first phase, October to December, we are going to have an average
of one flight per airline per day to reduce congestion," said Luggya.
The res...
