Friday 19 June 2015

Emirates commits to Uganda with capacity upgrade from October

By Joan Pounds

Emirates Airline is set to upgrade its services to Uganda with the deployment of larger Boeing 777-200LR on the daily Dubai to Entebbe route from October 1.
The Boeing 777-200LR will replace the current Airbus A330-200 used on the route, and increase the total number of seats across all cabin classes by 12 percent, offering eight private suites in First Class, 42 lie-flat seats in Business Class and 216 seats in Economy Class.
“The upgrade to a Boeing 777 reinforces our commitment to Uganda and offering travellers world class products and services," said Orhan Abbas, Emirates senior vice president, Commercial Operations, Latin America, Central and Southern Africa.
Emirates started services to Uganda in March 2000, with a thrice weekly service linked with Nairobi, and later with Addis Abba, until it was delinked in 2007 and became a direct daily service between Dubai and Entebbe.

“Besides the enhancement to the product offering, the increase in capacity to Entebbe is also to meet growing demand for our services in Uganda and the East Africa region. This year we’ve increased our capacity to the region by adding more seats to both our Dar es Salaam and Nairobi service, giving us the ability to meet growing demand in this vibrant tourism and business region of Africa,” he added.
Emirates said popular destinations for Ugandans are Dubai, Guangzhou, Ahmedabad, Beijing, Hyderabad, Mauritius, London, Bangalore and Bangkok, while inbound passengers are mainly from the United States, UK, India, Australia, China, Germany and Jordan.

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