Resurrected Uganda Airlines flies into crowded African skies

Kenya Airports Authority staff members usher a Uganda Airlines Bombardier CRJ-900 plane during its relaunching flight to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya August 27, 2019.

Uganda Airlines has taken to the skies once more after almost two decades out of action, but flies into a crowded aviation market in Africa where carriers have the weakest finances and emptiest planes of any region in the world.

The state carrier launched commercial flights on Wednesday, its first since it was liquidated in 2001, aiming to take a slice of the East African aviation business that is dominated by Ethiopian Airlines, the continent’s success story.