Entebbe International Airport handled 80,719 arriving and 91,271 departing passengers, a total of 171,990 international passengers in March 2024, Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) has said.
This is an average of 5,548 passengers per day.
“This is an average of 2,009 more passengers than was handled per day in March 2023,” says Vianney Luggya, the UCAA Spokesperson.
In relation to cargo, Entebbe International Airport recorded 1,902 metric tonnes of imports and 3,780 metric tonnes of exports, making a total of 5,682 metric tonnes in March 2024.
This comes on the heels of increased traffic, averaging over 6,000 passengers per month in the previous three months; specifically, 6,418 passengers per day were handled in December 2023, 6,329 per day in January 2024 and 6,116 passengers per day in February 2024. 2023 recorded a total of 1.93 million passengers in comparison to the pre-COVID 19 pandemic figure of 1.8 million passengers in 2019.
Entebbe International Airport is undergoing expansion to address the growing traffic.
