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Old Jul 23, 2015 | 10:52 pm
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Originally Posted by aksai oiler
These are both 767 routes. Can anyone advise the reason for the suspension? Lack of suitable aircraft? Performance? I see several of the long haul 767s have been doing the likes of MAD recently.
I do EBB 4 or 5 times a year but only on Emirates. Their flights always seem to be full even after they moved to doing EBB directly instead of as a tag to Nairobi. FlyDubai is also on the route now and between them they have probably taken BA's business.

Having said that Uganda has just doubled the cost of a single entry visa to $100 which means many people will cut back on their trips and meet clients in Nairobi instead. Personally at a time when tourist flows are down I would say the country has shot itself in the foot but governments in this part of the world are not known for being smart....
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