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Emirates first flight to Entebbe

KARACHI: Emirates' first flight to Entebbe in Uganda, left Dubai on March 27, inaugurating a new, thrice a week service to the airline's 51st destination.

The Entebbe service commenced a day after Emirates launched its new service to Sydney, Australia, and a few days before the airline's new service to Milan in Italy on April 1.

Entebbe is Emirates' fifth city on the African continent, joining a network which comprises Cairo, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

Emirates will operate three flights a week from Dubai via Nairobi, with the brand-new Airbus A330-200 in three classes of 18 First, 42 Business and 183 Economy class seats.