The United States of America launched its direct flights between East Africa and USA in August this year. The USA flight base is in Nairobi Kenya.

The USA did this as part of its bid to review the progress of increasing their links in the aviation sector in the East African Community states of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.  The US is out to improve aviation health standards in East Africa.  The passengers and cargo between US and East Africa will have no stopovers in other countries.

The United States’ Federal Aviation Administration and Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCCA) are currently reviewing their regulations in order to allow direct flights.

The flights are expected to enable East Africa to fully benefit from the United States’ Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade agreement that allows products to access the United States under preferential terms. Exports of East African agricultural products such as flowers and tourism to the US will increase once the flights commence.

Ends

The post US start direct flights from East Africa first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

The air transport passengers who want to keep discovering may now have smiles. Emirates are set to launch its non stop flights from Entebbe to Dubai.

With the world’s finest restaurants, pristine beaches and Burj Khalifa (the world’s largest building, Dubai is a city in the world where only the best is good enough.

The management of Emirates says that with their non stop flights from Entebbe, their passengers can conveniently connect to Dubai and to over 120 destinations around the world.

Emirate’s direct flights to Dubai start from March 24^th 2012. Emirates has over 500 international awards  and serves over 120 destinations.

The post Emirates to launch non stop flights to Dubai first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.