Entebbe Airport registers Increase of Passenger numbers to 3658 Per day 

Entebbe International Airport has served 212 978 passengers in January and February which presented an average of 3658 per day post- lockdown traffic compared to 2020 and 2021.

According to the Director General of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Fred Bamwesigye, in January 2022, Entebbe International Airport recorded 62,677 departures and 47,870 arrivals totaling 110,547 passengers, an average of 3,566 per day.

“In February 2022, the airport recorded 46,275 Arrivals and 56,156 Departures totaling 102,431 passengers, an average of 3,658 per day,” he said.

While this is clearly an improvement from the daily average of 2,568 recorded in 2021 and that of 1500 in 2020, it is still short of the daily average of 5,000 passengers per day that the airport used to record in 2019 prior to the advent of COVID-19.

Bamwesigye made the remarks while celebrating Women’s Day and also honouring long serving female officers.

STATEMENT

Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) has for the past three years celebrated Women’s Day by highlighting the different roles women undertake in the aviation industry. This year’s International Women’s Day theme of #BreakTheBias is in tandem with the unique role played by women in technical departments within UCAA.

The Authority has this year opted to celebrate Women in aviation in a different way. Considering the fact that the Authority has just celebrated 30 years of existence and registered various milestones along the way, we deemed it prudent to recognize female staff who have diligently served the Authority with commitment and directly contributed to the successes registered in the entire period of 30 years since establishment.

UCAA is working towards improving the gender gap and currently employees 381 female which is 29% of the total employees. Of these 9 females sit on the Management team. That is the spirit behind the special recognition that UCAA Management has accorded to the twelve (12) long serving ladies who are being appreciated for a good job done and awarded accordingly.

It is not easy for one to serve impeccably for 30 consecutive years. I congratulate the 12 female staff as we continue to celebrate them as part of the Authority’s 30^th Anniversary and as part of this week’s Women’s Day celebrations. We also have several ladies who have made tremendous steps in their career progression. We celebrate them all.