Sh4b presidential airport lounge built at Entebbe
Jan 23, 2007
THE Civil Aviation Authority is constructing a sh4b lounge at Entebbe International Airport for the “Very-Very Important Personsâ€.
BY EMMY ALLIO
THE Civil Aviation Authority is constructing a sh4b lounge at Entebbe International Airport for the “Very-Very Important Personsâ€.
The V-VIP lounge will cater for presidents and heads of state during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) due in November.
The complex will help to ease the usual traffic jams when President Yoweri Museveni or other visiting presidents use the airport.
It will have top security and special roads leading to it. “It aims to ease the traffic and increase the security,†said Ignie Ingundura, the aviation authority spokesman.
He said an artistic impression is being developed. The current VIP lounge at the new airport terminal will remain for the not-so-very important persons.
Nearby, the dilapidated structures of the old airport terminal, scene of the 1976 Israeli commando raid, are being transformed into a modern terminal to serve domestic flights and charter operators.
The site engineer, Liu Ning of China Nanjing International Limited, said that the twin block, two storey building, to cost sh7.1b, will be ready at the end of June.
Contrary to earlier plans to turn
the old airport terminal into a museum in memory of the dead Israelis, Civil Aviation decided to preserve only the tower as a monument. A restaurant will also be constructed.
Also at the old airport, a new parking area is to be built to accommodate 20 planes, while 13 big planes can park at the new airport.
A total of 55 presidential planes are expected for CHOGM.
“The others will use any available space at the old airport,†Ingundrua said. He added that the airport will close during CHOGM.
The arrival hall at the new airport is also being expanded at a cost of sh17b.
The expansion is being carried out by Cementers, the Nairobi-based company renown in Uganda for redesigning and building the Clock-Tower road junction and transforming former Nile Hotel complex into Serena Hotel.
The completed expanded arrival hall will have new immigration counters, escalators and 90-metre baggage reclaim belts.
THE Civil Aviation Authority is constructing a sh4b lounge at Entebbe International Airport for the “Very-Very Important Personsâ€.
The V-VIP lounge will cater for presidents and heads of state during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) due in November.
The complex will help to ease the usual traffic jams when President Yoweri Museveni or other visiting presidents use the airport.
It will have top security and special roads leading to it. “It aims to ease the traffic and increase the security,†said Ignie Ingundura, the aviation authority spokesman.
He said an artistic impression is being developed. The current VIP lounge at the new airport terminal will remain for the not-so-very important persons.
Nearby, the dilapidated structures of the old airport terminal, scene of the 1976 Israeli commando raid, are being transformed into a modern terminal to serve domestic flights and charter operators.
The site engineer, Liu Ning of China Nanjing International Limited, said that the twin block, two storey building, to cost sh7.1b, will be ready at the end of June.
Contrary to earlier plans to turn
the old airport terminal into a museum in memory of the dead Israelis, Civil Aviation decided to preserve only the tower as a monument. A restaurant will also be constructed.
Also at the old airport, a new parking area is to be built to accommodate 20 planes, while 13 big planes can park at the new airport.
A total of 55 presidential planes are expected for CHOGM.
“The others will use any available space at the old airport,†Ingundrua said. He added that the airport will close during CHOGM.
The arrival hall at the new airport is also being expanded at a cost of sh17b.
The expansion is being carried out by Cementers, the Nairobi-based company renown in Uganda for redesigning and building the Clock-Tower road junction and transforming former Nile Hotel complex into Serena Hotel.
The completed expanded arrival hall will have new immigration counters, escalators and 90-metre baggage reclaim belts.