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Uganda Airlines gets new Airbus

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Uganda Airlines receives its first Airbus A330neo. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  Michael Wakabi

Contributor

Nation Media Group

Uganda Airlines has become the first African operator of the Airbus A330-800neo, the smaller of the revamped A330 model, after taking delivery of the aircraft in Toulouse on Monday.  

Certificates of title for the first of two -800neos on order were exchanged between Airbus and Uganda in Toulouse. 

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