East Africa’s carriers flutter, weighed down by huge debts, losses and bad PR

What you need to know:

  • Uganda Airlines rejoins a business it quit amid mounting debt some 20 years ago.
  • Air Tanzania is grappling with the the seizure of one of its aircraft in South Africa over a 37-year-old debt.

  • Hope seems to dim further for Kenya Airways, which announced heavy losses, again.

  • Ethiopian Airlines is also facing bad PR over the Flight ET302 crash in March.

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