The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Air Uganda, Cornwell Muleya says Air Uganda plans to go beyond the East African Market in future after conquering fully all opportunities here.
Among the destinations Muleya mentions are Europe, United Arab Emirates Southern Africa among others. The CEO revealed the plan on July 4 at a news conference where he officially launched the company’s online payment solution.
He said the future expansion plan will be guided by how economies perform on several fronts. However, he said, most regions were growing the sectors of agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism among others.
“All these need air transport,” he said.
He did not however, give a timeline for the expansion program.
Meanwhile, he said customers for Air Uganda now have a chance to pay, book for their travel tickets online using the visa enabled cards, mobile money among others.
“Now customers don’t need to walk to our offices to pay, they can do this from anywhere they want,” he said, adding the launch of the solution was as a result of demand from customers. Details on how to transact, he said, are “steady” on their official website.
He said they have an internal monitoring system in which all online transactions are watched to ensure that only genuine ones are handled.
Air Uganda is a member of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and has been in operation since November 2007.
The Airline’s current destinations are Nairobi, Juba, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Kigali, Bujumbura, and Kilimanjaro. The company will on June 8 launch the route to Mogadishu.
