Air Uganda to remain grounded for one month pending audit
By JULIUS BARIGABA The EastAfrican
Posted Saturday, July 5 2014 at 15:07

In Summary
The five-phase audit will take 28 days, starting with a
pre-application, which the airline has so far negotiated.
The five-man audit team comprises three lead consultants — two
aviation experts from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and one from
the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency of the East
African Community. The other two are CAA officials acting as
observers.
Air Uganda will remain grounded for at least one month after
independent aviation experts ordered a fresh safety audit before it
resumes operations.
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The five-phase audit will take 28 days, starting with a
pre-application, which the airline has so far negotiated.
At the time of going to press, the carrier's officials were in the
process of submitting the application to complete the second phase.
The next phases of the audit will evaluate the airline's application
and the company's implementation of safety measures by testing the
crew and aircraft.
The EastAfrican has learnt that the independent audit team has
dismissed earlier reviews by Uganda's Civil Aviation Authority that
led to the withdrawal of Air Uganda's air operator's certificate on
June 17, along with those of two other operators — the Ministry of
Defence-owned Uganda Air Cargo Corporation and private airline
Transafrik Uganda Ltd.
READ: Three airlines suspend flights in Uganda over licences
The five-man audit team comprises three lead consultants — two
aviation experts from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and one from
the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency of the East
African Community. The other two are CAA officials acting as
observers.
The grounding of Air Uganda, which operated eight routes — Entebbe to
Juba, Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Kigali, Bujumbura
and Mogadishu, carrying up to 6,400 passengers per week — means
travellers around the region must brace themselves for tough times.
Barely two weeks after Air Uganda was suspended, the air fares more
than doubled on some routes as competitors took advantage of the
crisis.
Industry regulator Civil Aviation Authority suspended the three
airlines after a review of their systems, structures and operations by
the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
But, upon summoning and querying CAA officials last week, the
parliamentary Infrastructure Committee of parliament, which has an
oversight mandate on the transport sector, concluded that the
regulator had "lied and used the weaknesses of the three airlines" to
cover up it own failures.
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