Kokoro Janda

Kokoro Janda is a Ugandan airline pilot, who serves as a Captain on the A330-800neo equipment at Uganda National Airlines Company, the revived national airline of Uganda. He has worked with Uganda Airlines since 2021.

Background and education
He is a Ugandan national by birth. He holds a Commercial pilot licence from the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States. He also holds an ICAO Airline Transport Pilot Licence. He graduated from Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Florida, United States, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aviation Management.

Career
Following his graduation from Lynn University, he first served as a sales executive of business jets and turbo prop aircraft, based in Boca Raton Florida, in the United States. Later he began flying with general aviation companies including Transworld Safaris (Kenya), Selous Safari Company (Tanzania), Fly ALS (Kenya) and East Affrican Safari Express (Kenya).

In 2008, he was hired by the now defunct Air Uganda. He left in 2010, when Astral Aviation hired him as Captain on their cargo planes. In 2018, he was hired as Captain on the A320 family aircraft at Jetstar Pacific Airlines, at that time a joint venture between Vietnam Airlines (70 percent) and Qantas (30 percent). He flew A320 family aircraft, as captain for over two years.

As of September 2021, he was type-rated on the following aircraft classes: Cessna 208 Caravan, Beechcraft King Air, McDonnell Douglas MD-82, McDonnell Douglas MD-83, McDonnell Douglas MD-87, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, Airbus A320 family and A330neo.

Other considerations
Captain Kokoro Janda, is one of the senior pilots at Uganda Airlines. He is flight safety officer at the airline. He also serves as a training captain for Captains and First Officers on the A330-841 equipment. In addition, he is a check captain, who tests pilots trained by other captains at the airline. He was a member of the cockpit crew who piloted the inaugural direct flight between EBB, in Uganda and LOS, in Nigeria as Flight UR900 on 19 October 2023. He was also the pilot in command on the Uganda Airlines Airbus A330-800neo maiden flight to Nairobi on 27 August 2021.