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Weekly UpdatesAug 16, 2009
Fly540
No sooner had news been broken that Air Uganda would switch from their loss making MD87s to the Bombardier CRJ, did more breaking news emerge from the regionOs first true low-cost airline, Fly540, that they will also Ogo jetO shortly. Fly540 is operating in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and by October of this year, the airline intends to take delivery of its first Bombardier CRJ aircraft. According to reliable sources, the ever-more popular short- to medium-range jet will first be deployed on the Nairobi-Entebbe route, where the airline presently operates two flights a day, in addition to operating daily Nairobi-Dar es Salaam flights with the jet aircraft. The economics of the CRJ are favorable, even when compared to Fly540s workhorse aircraft, the ATR 42 and ATR 72, but offers substantially faster travel times between airports, while matching turnaround times on the ground. Aug 12, 2009
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