Fly Uganda To Launch Scheduled Flights to Bwindi
The entry of Fly Uganda, a local domestic airline in Uganda will start operating scheduled flights to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the most popular national park in the country. The scheduled flights are set to begin on 1st November 2018 and the airline will be flying twice a week from Kajjansi Airstrip to Kihihi Airstrip.
Fly Uganda is a subsidiary of Kampala Executive Aviation (KEA), a domestic airline within Uganda. They plan to launch new routes in 2019 so that to ease accessibility to the remote areas of Uganda.
Bwindi in Uganda’s domestic air space and Aero Link has been the only airline operating scheduled flights to the Impenetrable National Park is one of the areas they have started from, given the high number of tourists seeking gorilla tours in the park. Bwindi is a wonderful home to the endangered gorillas, and it hosts almost half of the world’s remaining population. According to the last known 2012 Gorilla Census, Bwindi was found out to be hosting over 420 mountain gorillas. Today there are 17 habituated gorilla groups that can be visited by tourists and 1 gorilla for the gorilla habituation experience.
The park receives a good number of tourists who visit Uganda for gorilla trekking. Tourists looking to shorten the distance of 10 hours drive from Kampala fly to either Kisoro Airstrip andKihihi Airstrip to start their expeditions into the gorillaland!
Kisoro Airstrip serves as a base for those who would like to track the gorillas in the northern part of the park and serves the Buhoma Sector as well as the Ruhija Sector.
Kisoro Airstrip serves as the base for those who would like to go gorilla tracking in the southern sector, serving the Nkuringo and Rushaga sector in Southern Bwindi as well as the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park.
There have been few players Fly Uganda is expected to improve accessibility to the gorilla parks. Tour operators have also welcomed the idea of Fly Uganda to start operating scheduled flights given that it will make both routes competitive and thus lower prices!
