The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, met with Monsieur Patrice Baueb a representative of the Airbus, a company in aeronautics, space and related services as the East African nation works towards reviving its national carrier.
“I am convinced that Uganda Airlines will succeed mainly because of six factors: Ugandans in the diaspora, the Indian community, businessmen, tourists, regional traffic and internal travel,” said the President.
Uganda’s cabinet passed a resolution to revive the airline, in order to boost the country’s air transport system, plus boost its trade and development prospects in the region.
According to the President the airline, once revived, will grow tourism since no country would compete with Uganda.
“In terms of tourism, no country can compete with Uganda if we have an airline and promote our nice weather, wildlife and the other tourist attractions,” he said.
The airline will most likely begin with regional flights as the President pointed out that there are Ugandans traveling and exporting cargo to Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Juba in South Sudan, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos in Nigeria and the airline would make their travel and business faster and more direct.
