THE viatorviator UGANDA KENYA TANZANIA # 5: AISSUEA A October - December 2020 Proud Partners of the Dubai Air Show 2021 and MEEBA Show 2021 IATA P: 09 Airline Schedules P: 49 Aviation Contacts P: 53 Information for • Uganda Airlines • Uganda passengers flying • Kenya Airways • Kenya in the pandemic • Air Tanzania • Tanzania Your Number One Source of Aviation News in East Africa THE FUTURE OF THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Unparalleled line-up of thought- 14-18 November 2021 provoking content, aerial displays DWC, Dubai Airshow Site and game-changing innovations www.dubaiairshow.aero Follow us on: Book your space today: [email protected] #DubaiAirshow Commerical Aviation | Aircraft Interiors | MRO | Business Aviation | Air Traffic Management Space | Defence & Military | Air Cargo | Emerging Technologies NEW Supported by: Contents THE viator UGANDA KENYA TANZANIA # 5: AISSUEA October - December 2020 Proud Partners of the Dubai Air Show 2021 and MEEBA Show 2021 IATA P: 09 Airline Schedules P: 49 Aviation Contacts P: 53 Information for • Uganda Airlines • Uganda passengers flying • Kenya Airways • Kenya in the pandemic • Air Tanzania • Tanzania Your Number One Source of Aviation News in East Africa EDITOR IN CHIEF Ssemawere Oscar Contents MANAGING EDITORS Leila ismail AVIATION BUSINESS: AIRBUS: Sembajjwe Robert Financial Impact of Covid-19 on Aviation Airbus reveals new zero-emission concept P: 6&7 aircraft P:32&33 EDITORIAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC IATA: CONSULTANTS IATA information for passengers flying Ssemawere Oscar, Iddi Mshana, during the pandemic P: 9 to 13 Kagaba Christopher, Leila Ismail, Jagwe Clinton MARKETING CONSULTANT Ssembajjwe Robert BOEING: KENYA CORRESPONDANT Boeing CEO Announces Expanded Executive Council P:35&36 Harriet James ADVENTURE: CREATIVE TEAM Things to do in Entebbe P: 38&39 Q&A: Ssemawere Oscar, Hannar Mwebaze, Why Engineer Ayub Sooma can stake his ar LEISURE: Mulungi Daniel for Entebbe International's SOPs P: 17 to 20 The aviator tour packages P:40&41 NEWS: CREDITS Are airplane oxygen masks intoxicated? • Uganda CAA P: 23 • IATA NEWS: • Gulfstream What does an aircraft dispatcher do? • Airbus P: 24&25 • Boeing Advertising and Editorial Equiries AIRLINE SOPS: Unit 19 CS, Shumuk House Plot2 Uganda Civil Aviation P:42&43 Colvile Street, Kampala. P. O. Box Uganda Airline: P:44 Kenya Airways: P: 46&47 6715, Kampala +256 393 515 148, +256 774 590 637 AIRLINE SCHEDULES: Uganda Airlines P: 48 to 51 [email protected] GULFSTREAM700: Kenya Airways P: 52 Air Tanzania P: 52 www.theaviator.co.ug Gulfstream G700: The world's largest private jet P:27&28 The Aviator Uganda AVIATION CONTACTS: LEISURE: Uganda P: 53&54 @theavaitorug Ways to Keep Kids Entertained on Flights Kenya P:55&56 @aviatorug Without Tablets P:29 TO 31 Tanzania P: 57 to 59 The Aviator - October 2020 5 Forward Flying remains one of the safest travel alternatives during COVID-19 “The risk of a passenger it would be one case for every contracting COVID-19 while 2.7 million travelers. We think onboard appears very low. these figures are extremely With only 44 identified reassuring. Furthermore, the potential cases of flight-related vast majority of published transmission among 1.2 billion cases occurred before the travelers, that’s one case for wearing of face coverings every 27 million travelers. We inflight became widespread,” recognize that this may be an said Dr. David Powell, IATA’s Dr. David Powell, underestimate but even if 90% Medical Advisor. of the cases were un-reported, IATA’s Medical Advisor Financial impact of COVID-19 Airline industry will continue to burn through cash until 2022 with unavoidable costs and a weak recovery in passenger demand, airlines will burn through cash until 2022 6 The Aviator - October 2020 IATA Airlines have been kept on life support $160bn aid from government and another $20bn from suppliers Government aid made available to airlines due to COVID -19, by type (USD bn) Direct aid (subsidies, loans, 99,7 equity, cash injection) Wage subsidies 40,1 Corporate taxation 12,0 Industry taxation 9,5 Fuel charges 0,7 Total 161,9 Source: IATA Economics using public information and data from SRS Analyser , DDS, FlightRadar 24, TTBS, ACIC, Platts, Airline Analyst, annual reports. Government measure included up until 7 Sep 2020 The Aviator - October 2020 7 Uganda Kenya Tanzania The Number one Source of Aviation News in East Africa Entebbe International Airport Departures and Arrivals Area All Airline Offices East African Aero Club, Wilson airport, Nairobi Karibuni Lounge, Entebbe International airport Get a Copy at: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya Nairobi All Aristoc Bookshop Outlets Street vendors Hotels Supermarkets To Advertise with us: Unit 19 CS, Shumuk House Plot2 Colvile Street, Kampala, P. O. Box 6715 Kampala +256 393 515 148, +256 774 590 637 www.theaviator.co.ug @theavaitorug [email protected] The Aviator Uganda @aviatorug IATA IATA Information for passengers flying during the pandemic Flying remains one of the safest travel alternatives during COVID-19 1. Travel Restrictions Source: IATA KEY Totally restrictive Partially Restrictive Not restrictve Latest updates currently under review The Aviator - October 2020 9 IATA 2. Transmission Risks expelled breath. Seat backs - A further barrier What is the risk of on board transmission? to COVID-19 spread is that high seatbacks act as a solid barrier. High airflow rate - Research has shown that the airflow in an aircraft (from ceiling to floor) is less conductive to droplet spread than other similar environments or modes of transport. Air exchange - Modern jet aircraft deliver high airflow and replacement rates, combined with hospital-grade High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters that are 99.9+% effective at removing viruses, bacteria and fungi. Cabin air is exchanged every 2-3 minutes. Be reassured that the risk of There are several reasons why Unlike other modes of contracting COVID-19 on board this is the case: transport, the aircraft cabin a flight is very low. Seating position - Most of the environment makes the There have been millions of time on board, you are seated transmission of viruses flights since the start of the facing forward rather than facing difficult and we have seen a COVID-19 outbreak resulting in another person. This makes a big low occurrence of on board less than 50 confirmed cases of difference in terms of the chance transmission transmission in-flight. of breathing in someone else’s 3. Cabin Air How good is the quality of cabin air? 10 The Aviator - October 2020 IATA Cabin Air Quality The quality of supplied air on board an aircraft is much better than most indoor environments. Here are a number of reasons why. How good is the cabin air? The risk of transmission in the modern cabin environment is low for a number of reasons: passengers face the same direction, seatbacks act as barriers, air flow is top to bottom, but it is also very clean. • 2-3 minutes Cabin air is renewed about every 2-3 minutes In hospitals, it's about every 10 equipped with High-Efficiency Research by the US Transcom minutes Particulate Air (HEPA) filters. showed that aerosol particles In offices, about every 20 These filters have similar were “rapidly diluted by the minutes performance to those used in high air exchange rates” of a hospital operating theatres and typical aircraft cabin. Aerosol • 50/50 industrial clean rooms. particles remained detectable The air supplied on board an These HEPA filters are 99.9+% for a period of less than six aircraft is half HEPA-filtered effective at removing viruses, minutes on average. Both and half fresh air bacteria and fungi. aircraft models (B777 and B767) And the air is changed 20-30 tested removed particulate times per hour Higher rate of air renewal than matter 15 times faster than in other indoor facilities a typical home ventilation • 99.993% The air in the aircraft cabin system and 5-6 times faster This is the bacteria/virus comprises of around 50% fresh “than the recommended design removal efficiency rate of the air from outside the aircraft specifications for modern HEPA filters onboard and 50% of HEPA filtered air. hospital operating or patient It includes SARS, which is The air in the cabin is also isolation rooms.” similar to COVID-19 renewed 20-30 times an hour or once every 2-3 minutes. Mannequins with and without • Top to bottom air flow face masks sat in various seats The direction of the air flow in Main conclusions from cabin on the aircraft while fluorescent an aircraft is from top to bottom, air studies tracer particles were released and not along the length of the at intervals of two seconds to aircraft • US Transportation simulate breathing for a minute Command (Transcom), during ground and in-flight HEPA filters Department of Defense tests. Real-time fluorescent Most modern jet aircraft are The Aviator - October 2020 11 IATA particle sensors were placed exposure was lower when passengers sitting next to one throughout the aircraft at the seated side by side on a plane another on an airplane is the breathing zone of passengers than when staying six feet apart same as standing more than to measure concentration over in an environment such as an seven feet (or two meters) time. office, classroom or grocery apart in a typical building store. environment. Airbus Airbus used computational • Boeing • Embraer fluid dynamics (CFD) research Using CFD, Boeing researchers to create a highly accurate tracked how particles from Using CFD, cabin air flow and simulation of the air in an A320 coughing and breathing droplet dispersion models cabin, to see how droplets move around the airplane validated in full-scale cabin resulting from a cough move cabin. Various scenarios were environment testing, Embraer within the cabin airflow.