UGANDA (eTN) -Tanzania’s Coastal Aviation and Uganda’s Kampala Aero Club and Flight Training Center (KAFTC), aka Fly Uganda, will offer a unique link effective December 15, connecting the great migration of Tanzania’s Serengeti with the prized mountain gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi National Park. The flights will route via Entebbe where visitors clear immigration and customs before continuing to their final destination. The cooperation between the two airlines resolves a thorn in the side of air travel, prompted by Tanzania’s insistence to retain non-tariff barriers and treating airlines from fellow East African Community (EAC) countries like foreign carriers in clear violation of the spirit of the East African Community and belying the full-mouthed speeches made at the just concluded summit in Nairobi, where notably Tanzania’s President called for the removal of such restrictive practices.
Effective December 1, KAFTC has also launched per seat fares from Kajjansi to the main Ugandan national parks to any of the three fields in Murchisons Falls, i.e., Pakuba, Chobe or Bugungu.
Kidepo will offer per seat options for air safaris across Uganda instead of forcing tourists to use expensive charter flights with the almost inevitable “empty legs” which in the past often put the overall cost of a safari by air beyond the means of tourists.
This long-awaited change will undoubtedly promote air safaris to a much greater extent, more so as key lodges and tented safari camps now have custom-built 4×4 vehicles available in the parks, providing airstrip transfers and game drives on location. Flying with the Kampala Aeroclub has also been certified as 100 percent carbon neutral, the second such airline after Kenya’s Safarilink, underscoring East Africa’s trend to remain green by going green.
Visit www.flyuganda.com for more details, including the option to do some acrobatic flying with Capt. Howard Davenport, using a classic “Great Lakes” two-seater biplane for adrenaline-pumping action in the skies over Kajjansi.
WHAT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE:
- The cooperation between the two airlines resolves a thorn in the side of air travel, prompted by Tanzania's insistence to retain non-tariff barriers and treating airlines from fellow East African Community (EAC) countries like foreign carriers in clear violation of the spirit of the East African Community and belying the full-mouthed speeches made at the just concluded summit in Nairobi, where notably Tanzania's President called for the removal of such restrictive practices.
- Kidepo will offer per seat options for air safaris across Uganda instead of forcing tourists to use expensive charter flights with the almost inevitable “empty legs” which in the past often put the overall cost of a safari by air beyond the means of tourists.
- This long-awaited change will undoubtedly promote air safaris to a much greater extent, more so as key lodges and tented safari camps now have custom-built 4×4 vehicles available in the parks, providing airstrip transfers and game drives on location.
