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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.
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