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Luggya. The figures are a clearly show that the aviation  industry continues to recover from the more than two years of Covid -19 battering .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The July 2023 traffic reflects an additional 24,338 passengers to those recorded in the previous month of June 2023, which had a total of 160,915. It is also more than that recorded in the same period of July 2022, which was 151,653 &amp; higher than the 166,980 recorded in July 2019,&#8221; Luggya explained .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About  cargo in July 2023 the  Entebbe airport  recorded 4,198 metric tonnes of cargo and 1,547 metric tonnes of cargo which is a total of 5,745 metric tonnes of cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor: msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Entebbe International Airport has recorded sharp rise in international passengers with 185,253 travvelers registered in the month of July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/10Q28Z1t_400x400.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12051,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/entebbe-airport-registers-marked-increase-in-passengers-and-cargo-in-the-month-of-april\/","url_meta":{"origin":9714,"position":0},"title":"Entebbe Airport Registers Marked Increase In Passengers and Cargo In The Month Of April","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"May 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporters in Entebbe Uganda Civil Aviation Authority ( UCAA) has reported a marked increase passenger traffic at Entebbe International Airport in the month of April ,2024. 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