Two more Ugandan airlines, Asante Aviation and Ndenge Juu, have had their Air Operators Certificates (AOC) withdrawn after three others, Air Uganda, Transafrik and Uganda Air Cargo, suffered the same fate recently.
Contrary to licence conditions, Asante Aviation Ltd and Ndenge Ju were found to be operating flights to the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania by the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
They were also found to be occasionally flying charters to South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic and West Africa, reported Kampala's East African Business Week.
This was the major cause of the removal of the certificates pending a new re-certification process for all Ugandan registered airlines operating international flights currently being undertaken by CAA.
"We advised them to register for domestic business, but once in a while they operate to DRC and South Sudan," said an unidentified official. "Now, they have to undergo the new certification process."
Asante Aviation, started in 2006, is a Ugandan registered company licensed by the CAA to operate charters domestic and regional, but it is now in receivership, said the report.
Ndege Aviation is located in Kajjansi Airfield between Kampala and Entebbe and is a full service provider of aviation services based in Uganda and serving the whole of East Africa, it said.
