Excitement as Bar Aviation launches flight to Adjumani

ADJUMANI: Residence of Adjumani town were excited over the weekend as Bar Aviation launched its first flight from Kajansi Airfield in Kampala to Adjumani Airport.

The airline’s twelve-seater capacity Cessna Caravan plane 5x-GBR which also flew to Arua is expected to fly twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.

The flight was flagged off from Kajansi by the state minister for works and transport Fred Byamukama while in Adjumani the deputy resident district commissioner, Swadick Angupale who was the chief guest lauded Bar Aviation for choosing to fly to Adjumani.

“This flight is going to save us a lot, especially in handling medical emergencies. Sometimes we need blood from Gulu or Arua Regional Referal Hospital but we take long. We have lost lives that we could have saved,” Angupale said.

He also observed that although moving from Adjumani to Kampala has been made easy, the road from the Airfield to Adjumani town has remained very poor.

“We can not spend only one and half hours to fly from Kajansi to Adjumani but spend one-hour driving from the Airfield to Adjumani town on a 7km road, that is not acceptable, we shall task the relevant authorities to ensure the road is worked on,” Angupale noted.

Veronica Madraa, 63, a resident of Tamana village who was given the opportunity to board the plane for the fan flight was delighted to fly for the first time in her life.

“This is a very rare chance for me. I had never boarded a plane in my life, and I did not expect it in my life. I am grateful for this opportunity, I saw Adjumani town while I was up in the air. People were looking very small,” Madraa narrated the experience of flying by plane for the fight time.

Ben Unzi the local council chairperson for Tamana village, in Openzinzi parish Adropi Sub-county, said the operations at the airfield launched in the 1980s were interrupted by political instabilities.

Unzi said, “He is hopeful that the resumption of the operations of the airfield will go a long way in improving service delivery in the villages, especially the road leading to the airfield.”

Dorothy Kagaba Byenkya, the marketing manager of Bar Aviation said their plan to expand the flight routes is based on the challenges of traveling from Kampala to Adjumani by road, which takes more than eight hours. By air, this journey takes less than one and a half hours.

Lawrence Dulu, the LCII chairperson for Adropi Sub-county said they will work closely with the district and the management of Bar Aviation to ensure smooth operations.

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