A total of 157,209 passengers passed through Entebbe International Airport in May 2023, an average of 5,071 per day, Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA), has said.
Vianney M. Luggya, the UCAA Spokesman, says this comprised 77,912 departures and 79,297 arrivals.
“The May traffic was higher than the April 2023 traffic by an average of 775 passengers per day,” Luggya says, adding: “It is also worth noting that arriving passengers were more than departing passengers in May 2023. Returning pilgrims from Umrah partly contributed to the surge in traffic,” Luggya says.
The aviation industry and Entebbe Airport in particular is increasingly recovering from the adverse effects of COVID-19.
According to UCAA, Entebbe International Airport recorded 1,574,405 international passengers (arrivals and departures), compared to 941,688 in 2021, 565,541 in 2020 and 1,802,107 in 2019.
The Airport handled 61,000 metric tonnes of cargo in 2022.
