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Air Uganda is an airline based at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. 

The airline was formed in 2007 with funds from the Aga Khan Fund for 

Economic Development, which has stakes in African airlines Air Burkina and

Air Mali, and European airline Meridianafly. Air Uganda operates schedule

service to six destinations in central and eastern Africa. Capa Aviation.

CORNWELL MULEYA NAMED CEO

NEW CHIEF AT AIR UGANDA

Apr 08, 2013


 

KAMPALA, Uganda - Air Uganda is pleased to announce the appointment of its new CEO, Cornwell Muleya. Mr. Muleya has extensive airline management experience having worked as a CEO and CFO for several airlines in Africa, including Air Mauritius, Air Botswana, Air Tanzania Company Ltd., and Zambezi Airlines. He joins Air Uganda from ALS Limited in Kenya, where he has been the CEO of this growing aircraft leasing business for the past 3 years. Mr. Muleya is an Engineer and Chartered Accountant and spent the early part of his career in audit and financial consulting with Deloitte and PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

Commenting on his arrival, Mr. Muleya expressed his delight to be part of an exciting and growing airline like Air Uganda. He looks forward to working with the Air Uganda team and the people of Uganda to further develop the airline’s network in order to enhance business and tourism. “I am especially impressed with the quality of the Air Uganda product and will work to ensure the airline continues to delight its customers and becomes a household name not only in Uganda, but in East Africa and beyond.”

Air Uganda was founded in 2007 and operates scheduled flights from its Entebbe hub to various countries in Eastern Africa using a fleet comprising of CRJ200 aircraft and MD87s. Air Uganda is a member of the Celestair Group, which is owned by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED).

AKFED is an international development agency dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and building economically sound enterprises in the developing world. AKFED focuses on building enterprises in parts of the world that lack sufficient foreign direct investment.

AKFED is in turn part of the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of development agencies with mandates that include the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise, and the revitalization of historic cities.

Source: Air Uganda
 

GOVERNMENT TO INVEST IN AIR UGANDA - FINALLY

BY PROF. DR. WOLFGANG H. THOME, ETN AFRICA CORRESPONDENT | DEC 07, 2013

President Yoweri Museveni and His Highness the Aga Khan have reportedly reached an agreement during a meeting in Paris on the sidelines of a security conference the president is attending, that the Government of Uganda will acquire a stake in Air Uganda, which would turn the quasi national airline into a regular national airline. The offer was made on start up when Air Uganda went operational in 6 years ago but never taken up until now.

This will put an end too to ongoing rumors fueled by speculators and middlemen to revive Uganda Airlines, which was thought to be a massive scam, attempting to siphon millions of dollars out of government coffers, similar to the failed investment of 700 million Uganda Shillings in Victoria International Airlines, where vested interests by individuals caused a total write off after VIA halted operations within weeks of their maiden flight and not a single shilling returned to Uganda since.

Air Uganda in contrast has, since a rocky start caused by inept Italian management, stabilized and with recent CEO’s like Hugh Fraser and now Cornwell Muleya is on a steady course towards further and sustained growth.

U7 operates a fleet of 3 CRJ200 jets, after offloading the fuel guzzling MD87 aircraft, and presently flies from Entebbe to Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Kigali, Bujumbura, Juba and of late even Mogadishu, making it 9 regional destinations.

AIR UGANDA SETS DATE FOR LAUNCH OF MOGADISHU FLIGHTS
 
15th June 2013
 
Air Uganda, the Pearl of Africa's quasi national airline, has jus announced the launch date for their latest destination, Mogadishu in Somalia, Starting on 08th of July, U7 will fly initially three times a week nonstop between Entebbe and Mogadishu, offering government officials, army personnel and a growing number of business people from Uganda the fastest way yet to reach Somalia Uganda, alongside Burundi, was the first country to commit a major contingent of troops some years ago to the african Union led peace keeping mission, and with that mission new more or less accomplished, has the time come to launch commercial flights, available for everyone, compared to the purely military flights which has in the past served as a link between the two countries.

In a related development it was also learned that Air Uganda is keenly eying Southern African destinations, and while official confirmation is still awaited, Harare, and perhaps Lusaka have been mentioned to this correspondent.