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According to Uganda Airlines CEO Cornwell Muleya on Twitter videos dated 8 and 25 May 2020, Uganda Airlines is on course to receive two Airbus A330-800neo jets by December 2020 during the pandemic. On 27 June 2020, the airline tweeted an Airbus photography of its first A330-800neo tail livery.
Uganda Airlines has secured the landing slot in Dubai for its resumption flight to Dubai from Entebbe in January 2021. Cornwell Muleya said that the Uganda national flag carrier is applying for landing slots in London and Guangzhou. It plans to launch long-haul flights to London and Guangzhou with the A330-800neo in Janurary 2021, subject to bilateral government approval.
Further afield, Uganda Airlines has ambitions to launch long-haul flights to Hong Kong and Tel Aviv, according to Nga'ali, the Official Inflight Magazine of the new Uganda Airlines first launched in October 2019.
Currently, Uganda Airlines owns a fleet of four CRJ900 Bombardier aircraft to nine African destinations including Bujumbura, Kilimanjaro, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Juba, Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam, Mogadishu and Zanzibar. Operations re-started in August 2019 but passenger flights were grounded on 22 March 2020 due to the pandemic.
Uganda Airlines is operating a relief flight to Johannesburg on 2 July 2020.
As at 23 June 2020, Uganda has reported a cumulative number of 774 covid cases with 631 patients recovered and no fatalities.
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