Uganda eyes May 2019 to get funds for domestic flights infrastructure

Passengers on arrival at Pader Airfield. Uganda is improving the domestic aviation infrastructure. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI | NMG

As Uganda seeks to revive its national carrier, local air travel is also expected to ease when the country renovates airfields to increase capacity for domestic flights.

Officials told The EastAfrican that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) hopes to secure funds from the government, the African Development Bank and World Bank in May 2019, to start the upgrading of five airfields in different parts of the country.