It’s an exciting time for African aviation. Kenya Airways is launching flights to New York later this year, RwandAir hopes to soon start flying to New York, Air Tanzania just took delivery of a single 787, and Zimbabwe Airways is keeping us entertained.
Continue reading: Uganda Airlines Orders Two A330neos
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The national bird of Uganda, the crested crane is prominently featured on the tail-livery of the plane.
Ben, I’m typically pretty receptive of your news articles and think they’re valid, and I sometimes think people who comment “where the next review” are annoying, but now I’m starting to see where they’re coming from.
It’s starting to seem like you only post articles about news you can put a snarky spin on or have some sort of drama. TPG posted a “feel good” article about a teacher on Southwest getting unsolicited money for her students on a flight, while you use Uganda starting up an airline to take a jab at TAAG. And your last review (and I get you love Emirates) was of Emirates... something we’ve seen dozens of times. Not trying to be rude, but, I’m excited to see Air Belgium and Oman Air and I’m starting to get impatient, and while I think you do tend to do a good job keeping things balanced, that’s been hard to see lately.
It’s your blog, so write what you want, but I wanted you to take note of that.
Seems like you might be able to log a few new airports on the African continent in the coming years:
https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/nigerian-government-announces-new-airline/
I agree with Trey. I love you and have been reading you for years.
We're all geeks I suppose, overly interested in Miles and Points, etc. but I'm starting to feel like I did in Junior High when a couple of my friends started playing "Dungeons and Dragons" every waking hour and took their geekiness to a whole other level and left me feeling sad and alone.
I think the esoteric airlines should perhaps just "pepper" the blog and not provide the main course. I hope the new bloggers (excellent decision, by the way) , in the future will not be the only writers to deliver relevant content, leaving you with just the obscure and the mundane (Credit card shilling).
Just a question but do you have any proof to back the statement “Obviously having a national airline and easy access to the country helps greatly with attracting investments and improving the position of a country”? Seems to me serious investors can find a way to a small country even if they don’t have a flag carrier. And economic development and buying power will then bring more air service....governments don’t inherently need to build service before there is demand.
This is not surprising as the Ugandan government has been intending to purchase new aircraft for state travel for over two years now...
Thanks for the interesting article Lucky. I continue to be baffled why people come to just complain about everything but I guess that's just the internet for you.
Will they get the MSN1888, which is currently doing test and certification flights for Airbus? Considering the limited sales, it wouldn't be strange to sell the test aircraft to a bargain-seeking customer.
@ Pedro
Didn’t know constructive criticism counted as “complaining” but I guess that’s just the Internet for you.
I was respectful and it’s not like Ben has a “suggestions” box around here.