East African Airlines

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East African Airlines is an airline based in Kampala, Uganda. It operates services from Entebbe to countries in east and southern Africa. It plans to extend services to include West Africa and the Middle East. Its main base is Entebbe International Airport, with hubs at Johannesburg International Airport and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: QU
ICAO Code: UGX
Callsign: CRANE^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established in March 2002 and started operations on 2 December 2002. It was originally incorporated as Africa Air in March 2002, but the name was changed to East African Airlines on 17 May 2002. The airline is owned by Fin Investments (50%), Benedict Mutyaba (40%), President, Chairman and Chief Executive, and Patrick Kabunakuki (10%).

title== Services ==

Based at Entebbe, the main international gateway to Uganda, East African Airlines commenced its flight operations in November 2002 using a single B737-200 aircraft purchased from United Airlines (UAL). This aircraft was deployed on servies to Kenya (Nairobi) and South Africa (Johannesburg). Services to these cities have been suspended indefinitely.

More recently, services to Zimbabwe (Harare) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) were launched using a B767-200 in partnership with Air Zimbabwe. These flights have been in operation for almost a year, but they too have been suspended.

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