Uganda flagship carrier the Uganda Airlines has announced that it will be repatriating some Ugandans who are returning from abroad amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an announcement made on social media on Sunday, Uganda Airlines said it will be flying Ugandans from South Africa.
“Uganda Airlines will operate a repatriation charter flight for Ugandans in South Africa; Johannesburg to Entebbe on 25th June 2020,” it said.
The development comes a few days after all four of Uganda Airlines’ new Mitsubishi CRJ-900 (Bombardier) planes tested their engines for the first time on Friday afternoon after 90 days on the ground.
Images from Flightradar24. com, a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information about thousands of aircraft around the world, showed the four planes – Flight 5XKNP, 5XEQU, 5XKOB, and another that did not have a call sign – airborne in Ugandan airspace for an average of 40 minutes.
As indeed many experts thought, it signaled a resumption of service soon after the COVID-19 lockdown. Uganda airspace remains closed to international schedule passenger flights until further notice.
