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BAE Systems Asset Management Details Plans for Africa After Sale

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AFRAA MEDIA BRIEF 16TH February 2011

Air Namibia Visits AFRAA

Air Namibia, the national carrier of the Republic of Namibia is positioning itself to be one of

Africa’s finest airlines. To achieve this laudable objective, the airline is busy with a re-

organization exercise, which includes benchmarking its services against some of the most

successful African carriers.

Air Namibia, the national carrier of the Republic of Namibia is positioning itself to be one of

Africa’s finest airlines. To achieve this laudable objective, the airline is busy with a re-

organization exercise, which includes benchmarking its services against some of the most

successful African carriers. This was disclosed during a visit to the African Airlines Association

(AFRAA) headquarters by the Ag. Managing Director, Mrs. Theo Namases. The airline also

believes that carriers on the African continent should recognize that there is a need to cooperate

and jointly exploit opportunities applying the “win win” principle.

As part of its strategy, Air Namibia is

investing in newer generation aircraft to

replace the existing ageing fleet. It is also

seeking to forge commercial cooperation

arrangements with successful airlines to

extend its market coverage and provide

customer flexibility and convenience.

Briefing the Secretary General of AFRAA

on the operations of the Airline, Mrs.

Namases said, “Air Namibia aims to AFRAA Secretary General, Dr. Chingosho and Namibia Ag. Managing Director, Ms. Theo Nemases

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Fly540ContinuesExpansion

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Regional airline Fly540 has added an extra flight to Vipingo Ridge golf resort located on the North Coast of Mombasa, Kenya. This brings the number of flights by the airline to this Vipingo to four a week. Fly540 Opera-tions Director, Nixon Ooko, said that the recently launched flight to Vipingo Ridge was due to customer demand. “Vipingo Ridge is rapidly becoming a desirable destination for golfers, tourists, property developers and Kenyans who have invested in this estate,” he said Flights will be operated with a 19 passenger Beech 1900. Sujal Raja-Haria, Fly540’s commercial manager told Airlines Africa that the flights are operating with an averge of 15 pas-sengers. The airline operates flights on this route from Wilson Airport via Malindi on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Vipingo Ridge is the airline’s fifth destination on the Kenya coast after Mombasa, Malindi, Lamu and Ukunda, Diani.

BAE Systems recently announced an agreement to sell its commercial aircraft lease portfolio and asset management business to investment affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC. The sale, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011, is for a cash consideration of $187 million, subject to certain post-completion ad-justments. Completion is conditional, amongst other things, upon regulatory approval. The business, known as BAE Systems Asset Management, is the world’s second largest regional jet lessor by fleet value and the tenth largest aircraft lessor by fleet size. It

has 16 lease customers in 11 coun-tries. The business is responsible for the management of 151 commercial aircraft owned by BAE Systems, which are included within the sale, plus the management of third party owned commercial aircraft on behalf of airlines and investors. The company has aircraft placed 35 aircraft with 11 African operators. “It is interesting to note that there has been a significant increase in our aircraft in Africa in the last four years, particularly on the jet side, from three to 25 units,” said Nigel AJ Benson, BAE Systems - Asset Management’s

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BAE Systems African Operators11 Operators, 35 Aircraft

BAe 146/Avro RJAir BotswanaAir LibyaCronos AirlinesFair AviationSA Airlink

Jetstream 41SA AirlinkAngola Air ServicesMCC Aviation

Jetstream 31/32Alfa AirGlobal Aviation OperationsProflight ZambiaSenegalair

director sales and marketing-Africa. These numbers do not include some 146s which are not currently operat-ing at present as they are in between ACMI contracts. Alan Fraser, managing director of BAE Systems Regional Aircraft said, “We are pleased to confirm the sale of BAE Systems’ regional aircraft fleet and Asset Management business. We believe that this business will have a promising future and that we have found a buyer with the resources and expertise to support the growth of this activity. “BAE Systems Regional Aircraft support and engineering businesses will continue to provide the full range of support to the new owner, including continuing airworthiness and engineer-ing services. We are looking forward to continuing our close working relation-ship with the Asset Management busi-ness under its new ownership.” The support and engineering activities of BAE Systems Regional

Aircraft are not included in this sale. “This shouldn’t affect [our African] business arrangements at all,” said Benson. “Out of the current fleet in Africa, only two Jetstream 41s are lease, the other aircraft have been sold. On the customer support side, we will continue to work very closely with BAE Sys-tems Regional Aircraft, who have already started to develop a re-gional strategy towards support. For example, in Africa customer sup-port are already seeking arrangements for a regional spares store, and they are also seek-ing local component overhaul and re-pair shops in order to reduce mainte-nance costs for African and worldwide operators.” Peter Briger, co-chairman of Fortress Investment Group and head of Fortress’s credit business, said, “We believe that this will prove an outstanding investment for our limited partners, and anticipate that Regional Aircraft’s proven business model, and scalability that can support significant

BAE Systems AssetManagement

growth over time.” When asked whether the acquisi-tion transaction will affect the path

the company was on, especially in regards to the African market, Benson said, “Over the last few years, we have developed a two pronged strategy for our portfolio, particu-larly the jets where we have most availability. Whilst we have been developing other market applications for the jets in addition to its passenger role

(freighters, VIP with the ABJ, aerial fire-fighter, and com-plimentary airlifter for the world’s air forces) we have also concentrated our marketing efforts on the developing world including Africa, South America and the Far East. Therefore, the strategy for placement of our existing portfolio will be unaffected and in that regard Africa and other developing regions remain key target markets for our aircraft which offer a competitive mix of performance and operating eco-nomics for airlines and other operators in such areas.”

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The 19 passenger Skylander SK-105, by GECI Aviation, itself a division of GECI International, is designed to fill a company described void in the market. “We saw that there was consid-erable potential in this CS23/FAR23 market, where there are few aircraft in service and they are aging,” said Serge Bitboul, GECI International CEO. “We decided to design a totally new aircraft with the most modern systems.” A large part of the funds for the project have been provided by GECI International equity capital. They have have also benefited from regional development incentives, repayable advances and research tax credit, and private investments. “Various inves-tors, such as local authorities, have

been approached to take holding in the capital of GECI Aviation, said Bit-boul. Since the introduction of the con-cept almost 11 years ago, the design has seen a few changes. “Today, the design of the aircraft has been completed. Aerodynamics has been optimised, the mass of the aircraft is under the target and we have started the production of the tooling, parts and sub-assemblies by the industrial selected partners,” said Bitboul. “The work done by the Sky Aircraft design department, based in Chambley, Lor-raine, France, enabled us to design of an aircraft with exceptional aerody-namics and unequalled performance in its category.” The industrial partners involved have started to manufacture the parts

and sub-assemblies. The final assem-bly of the prototypes will begin in the second half of this year for a roll-out and a first flight in the first half of 2012. The ground and flight tests will have duration of 12 months, for certification of the aircraft in the first half of 2013, following with first customer deliveries. Airlines Africa asked Bitboul to describe if and why the SK-105 is suit-able for the African airline environe-ment. ”The Skylander is designed to operate as well on unpaved runways, without infrastructures, as on airports. It has exceptional performances, in terms of maximum cruising speed, rate of climb—a synonym for safety in hemmed-in areas—range, and take-off and landing distances. With a state of

Maximum speed : 235 kts

Take-off distance (19 pax-ISA-SL): 432 meters

Rate of climb: 3,000 ft/mn

Maximum range : 1,882 NM (30’ reserves) at FL 250

1.83 m tall cabin

Economical cruising speed : 180 kts

Landing distance (19 pax): 453 meters

Operations at temperatures between -40 °C and + 52 °C

Operations on unpaved runways

Operation in high altitude terrain: up to 10,000 ft

20.08 inch wide seat with 31 inch pitch

Skylander SK-105 Well-suited for Africa and Predicts More Than Aircraft in Region

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the art anti corrosion treatment, the Skylander can also withstand extreme temperatures, on high altitude terrain, up to 10,000 feet.” “It is therefore the ideal aircraft to serve isolated areas in Africa, with varied applications: transport of pas-sengers, freight, perishable goods, medicines, evacuations for health reasons, etc,” he continued. Sky Aircraft projects it will deliver more than 1,500 aircraft, between 2013 and 2030. More than 250 air-craft, about 25 percent of which, are intended for African operators. The Skylander is described as a particularly versatile aircraft, capable of handling many types of assign-ments. Its 28 m3 cabin, the largest in its category, can hold up to 2.7 tons of cargo in bulk or on pallets, and it can be arranged in combined versions, with 12 or 14 passengers plus freight for example. “Skylander is designed to go to places that other planes can’t reach, for example, isolated areas that have no airport infrastructure, but the SK-105 is also at ease on the asphalt of airports,” said Bitboul. “It is the ideal aircraft for reaching people, allowing them to travel, to receive goods or to ship their products to the major con-sumption and distribution centers.” The Skylander’s commercial portfolio currently includes more than 600 aircraft, with operators from the four corners of the world. Memoranda of understanding and letters of in-tent have already been signed for 14 aircraft and the company expects to announce new orders at the upcoming Paris Air Show. Building a new aircraft is one thing, but building the support network is where the real total life cycle sup-port system is where the cost of owen-ership will be won or lost. “We are developing a network that will allow

the Skylander to offer the best custom-er support in its category. It has four main centres in Europe, Africa, the Asia/Pacific region and the Far East, a worldwide network of MRO partners, and it offers AOG work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and centralized management of spare parts available throughout the world, Bitboul assured Airlines Africa. “Each operator will receive the electronic documentation and a technical representative will help to bring the aircraft into service.” “The Skylander also benefits from the worldwide technical support of its main suppliers such as Pratt & Whit-ney Canada, Sky Aircraft is committed for an excellent customers support, all over the world,” he continued. So what are the next steps for the SK-105 from here? “We have brought together internationally-renowned sub-contractors and suppliers of equip-ment and systems for the program,” said Bitboul. “They were won over by the quality of the design work and the programme’s sales potential: Pratt & Whitney Canada, Cobham, Hartzell, Zodiac, SEFEE, Saint-Gobain, Hegge-mann, Béringer, Figeac Aéro, Mazair, Lauak, etc. These companies can guarantee the high level of quality that is sought and they have the industrial capacities needed to increase the rate of production of the SK-105.” The Lorraine final assembly line should be capable of manufacturing 50 units per year as of 2015/2016. “When we have reached the cruising speed in 2019, annual production will be 110 aircraft.”


Skylander SK-105 Well-suited for Africa

Serge Bitboul

Zambia’s National Airports Cor-poration Ltd. (NACL) is embarking with SITA on a major transformation of check-in facilities at Lusaka and Livingstone international airports. A key goal of this five-year agree-ment is to reduce pressure on existing infrastructure through greater automa-tion of the check-in process and the introduction of passenger self-service check-in on the SITA AirportConnect Open platform. This will also allow for the common-use of all check-in facili-ties by all airlines. Passengers and airlines at Lusaka will benefit from the deployment of the new CUTE (Common Use Termi-nal Equipment) services at check-in counters and will also be able to use a range of CUSS (Common Use Self-Service) check-in kiosks including the compact S3 free-standing kiosk. The upgrades happening at Livingstone will cover both check-in counters and CUSS check-in kiosks. Automation at both locations will also extend to boarding gates, arrivals and lost baggage and other areas. Robinson Misitala, managing director, NACL, said, “The Airport-Connect platform offers a wealth of capabilities and functionality that make it an ideal fully flexible common-use airport system. It will reduce handling costs and the demand for additional airport infrastructure as passenger traffic increases while also eliminating congestion during peak periods.” The CUSS kiosks in Zambia can also be equipped in the future with a wide variety of security devices includ-ing integration of fingerprint readers, facial recognition software, passport readers and other devices to support a registered traveller program. Rob Watkins, SITA regional vice president, Africa, said, “SITA is very pleased to be part of the NACL’s am-bitious modernization plans and to turn Lusaka and Livingstone airports into two of southern Africa’s most attractive hubs with a reputation for efficiency with hassle-free check-in.”

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Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, will resume flights between Alexandria and Bahrain in time for the summer season. Effective June 9, the carrier will start flying from Bahrain to Egypt’s most popular Mediter-ranean beach and cultural destination, Alexandria with four flights per week to meet the summer season rush. Gulf Air flights will be operated to and from Alexandria’s new Borg Al Arab Airport. Gulf Air area commercial manager Middle East, Yaqoob Al Hajiri said, “Al-exandria has always been a popular destination for our customers, and come summer, the demand will be even higher. So we are back to this great city with four flights a week to meet the summer rush; what’s more, this time we have introduced a split schedule with morning and evening flights so that our custom-ers can choose a flight that suits their convenience. “Added Gulf Air Commercial Manager Egypt Mr. Ahmed Ali Ramadhan, “Alexandria is a favourite summer destination for most Arabs for its Mediter-ranean climate, historic sites and beautiful beaches,” added Gulf Air commercial manager Egypt Ahmed Ali Ramadhan. It is equally popular among westerners for the same reasons. As the carrier that provides seamless and convenient onward connections from the GCC, Far East, and Indian subcontinent destina-tions, Gulf Air offers excellent connectivity to Alexandria via its Bahrain hub.” Gulf Air currently operates 14 weekly flights to and from Egypt, 10 flights from the capital Cairo, and four flights from Alexandria. In addition, during this summer, Gulf Air will be launching services to three new destinations- Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan June 15, Copenhagen—its first service to Scandina-via—on July1 and Nairobi, the capital of Kenya on July 5.

More Flights to Egypt Resume as Gulf Air Resturns to the Market

Ethiopian Airlines has signed a ten year dry lease agreement for two brand new B777F aircraft powered by GE90 engines on May 26,2011. The aircraft were leased from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), a U.S and Irish commercial aircraft financing and leasing business of GE based in Ireland. The agreement was signed by Ethiopian CEO Tewolde Gebremariam and Rayan Barrett of GECAS. The leased B777Fs are long range modern freighter aircraft models and the first in Africa, with capacity to transport hundred plus tons of cargo at a time. The leased aircraft will arrive from Boeing Manufacturing at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in September and October 2012. GECAS has a fleet of over 1,800 owned and managed aircraft with approximately 245 airlines in over 75 countries, with offices in 25 cities around the world. Ethiopian being the first carrier in Africa to operate the B777F is com-mitted to provide seamless scheduled and charter cargo services in line with its vision 2025.

Ethiopian Signs 10-Year Dry Lease for 777Fs

Airbus, EADS EFW and their Rus-sian partners, United Aircraft Corpora-tion (UAC) and IRKUT, have jointly decided to stop the A320/A321 pas-senger to freighter (P2F) conversion development program for economic reasons and, therefore, to launch the necessary legal procedures for the termination of the joint venture Airbus Freighter Conversion GmbH (AFC). According to a press announce-ment, “Recent market developments, including the success of the upcom-ing A320neo, have resulted in more demand for A320 passenger aircraft and less for freighter versions in this aircraft category. In addition, strongly growing passenger traffic results in high demand for used A320 Family aircraft, thus reducing the amount of aircraft available for conversion.” Against the backdrop of these market changes and the increasing pressure on the P2F business case,

the partners have concluded to stop and freeze the P2F program. The joint venture Airbus Freighter Conversion GmbH (AFC) was estab-lished between EADS EFW, Airbus and the Russian companies UAC, IRKUT, in April 2007. Headquartered in Dresden, Germany, AFC was equally divided between Russia (UAC and IRKUT with 25 percent each) and EADS/Airbus (EADS EFW 32 percent, Airbus 18 percent). The partners have decided to dissolve AFC. The collegial and professional co-operation in this joint venture over the last four years developed by Airbus/EADS EFW, UAC and IRKUT, has strengthened the partnership between the European and the Russian aviation industry. IRKUT and Airbus will con-tinue their partnership in components manufacturing for the single aisle program.

A320/A321 Joint Venture for Freighter Conversions Dissolves


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Kenya Airways continues on its drive to grow and modernize its aircraft fleet size as it takes delivery of an additional Embraer airliner. Desig-nated as KYQ, the E-190 jet touched down at JKIA airport June 1, from the Embraer factory based in Brazil. It was received by Kenya Airways technical director, Tom Kadoyo. The aircraft is expected into ser-vice within the next two weeks and will be deployed to operate to the southern and central Africa regions. Commenc-ing just prior to the delivery of the aircraft, Kenya Airways Group manag-ing director Dr. Titus Naikuni noted, “We are in the final stages of securing all the necessary regulatory approv-

Air Lease Corporation (ALC) recently signed lease agreements for 20 additional aircraft. “The placements of these aircraft allow us to expand the global foot-print of our fleet,” said Marc Baer, executive vice President of Air Lease Corporation. We continue to strengthen longstanding relationships with our airline partners along with building new affiliations for ALC.” ALC is leasing 10 new aircraft to Alitalia: five Embraer 175s and 190LRs under 12 year leases. ALC and SriLankan Airlines have entered into lease agreements for three new A320-200s, delivered in May, Octo-ber and November 2011 on 12-year leases. S7 Airlines is leasing three new A320-200s for eight years, deliv-ering in January, February and May 2012. ALC and Kenya Airways have entered into eight-year lease agree-ments for three new Embraer 190ARs scheduled for delivery in August and September 2011, and May 2012.

New ALC Leases Include Africa

als for the aircraft to start operating,” further noting that the aircraft will un-dergo some further customization by its engineers before eventually being commercially deployed. The new long range plane joins the growing family of Embraer jets that Kenya Airways uses for its regional operations in Africa bringing the total number of the airline’s E-fleet to seven jets. This is in line with the plans to build capacity that is more efficient for its Africa market which is the core focus for the Pride of Africa. “With our route network expansion firmly on course, the addition of a new aircraft into the fleet is quite timely,” said Naikuni. He added that the increase in capacity had been neces-sitated by growing regional passen-ger and cargo demand and a rapidly expanding route network. The second Embraer E190 arrival will be in fulfillment of an order that the airline placed last year. The first jet was delivered in December 2010. Three more E190 jets will be delivered within the next one year. Naikuni said “The combination of the E170 and E190 in our network will offer greater flexibility in right-sizing the aircraft to meet route demand, using the same crew and ensuring consistent, high comfort for our pas-sengers.” In financial news, Kenya Airways announced a 73 percent increase in profit after tax to $40.8 billion driven by an expanded route network and increased frequencies. Naikuni attributed the stronger performance to sustained focus on growing route network and increased number of flights to existing destina-tions. “We have relentlessly pushed our reach to new and promising markets regardless of the increasingly competitive business environment,” said Naikuni. During the period under review, Kenya Airways recorded two historic milestones, by surpassing the 3 million passenger mark in the month of March

2011 achieving and exceeding the $1 billion mark in turnover. Capacity measured in available seat kilometer increased by 5.8 per-cent to 12,854 million largely as a re-sult of increased frequencies and new destinations launched. Passenger traf-fic measured in terms of revenue pas-senger kilometer grew by 9.3 percent over prior year due to an improved world economic climate during the first three quarters of the year. Passenger yields in U.S. cents increased by 6.7 percent and strengthened further to 10.3 percent when translated into Kenya Shillings, primarily due to a weaker Kenya Shilling in the period. The cabin factor of 69.2 percent was higher due to the high passen-ger traffic compared to 66.5 percent realized in the prior year. Total passen-gers carried by the airline were 3,137 million compared to prior year’s 2,890 million an 8.5 percent increase. Cargo and courier service gener-ated a 20 percent revenue growth over previous year. Total cargo tonnage was 2.2 percent above prior year with a yield growth of 13.7 percent. Oper-ating margin was at 6.8 percent an improvement from previous year’s 2.6 percent. Total expenses rose by 16 percent largely caused by the weaker shilling, increased operations due to the new destinations and increase in em-ployee cost. The increase in operat-ing expenses was however offset by gains made from expanding the route network and frequencies. Kenya Airways launched five new routes namely Rome, Muscat, Juba, Luanda, Nampula and re-opened Malindi during the period in review. The airline is set to launch flights to N’djamena in Chad later this month. This will bring to 54 the number of destinations Kenya Airways flies to. Naikuni said that prospects for the airline especially in the African market were promising and that the company would open eight new routes in the 2011/12 financial year. “Africa is the next frontier in the global economy, ripe for high growth supported by increased trade and rise in the number of tourism arrivals,” concluded Nai-kuni.

Kenya Airways Receives Additional Aircraft and Releases Financials


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When asked about further expan-sion, Raja-Haria that the company planned new areas, “probably branch-ing out more within Tanza-nia, where we have opened recently Julius Nyerere Inter-national Airport-Mtwara. Zambia and Zimbabwe also look very promising. Furthermore an additional frequency into Juba where we already flying six times a week.” Raja-Haria also mentioned that the company has 2 additional CRJs coming on line soon. The airline commenced opera-tions in November 2006 and now has 17 destinations in Kenya with regional services to Bujumbura, Entebbe, Dar es Salaam, Juba, Mwanza, Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro.


Fly540Expands

EgyptAir has announced that effective June 20, 2011 it will launch new international service from Cairo to Abha, Saudi Arabia. Flying a 737/500, the flights will operate three days a week. Cairo-Abha flights will be oper-ate Monday,Wednesday and Friday,departing from Cairo airport at 0825, arriving Abha airport at 1230. Return flights from Abha at 1330 arriving Cairo at 1535. Later, on June 30, 2011 the carrier will increase its non-stop frequencies from Cairo to Johannesburg by operat-ing five weekly flights except on Mon-day and Tuesday departing Cairo at 2330 arriving Johannesburg at 0735, depart from Johannesburg at 2145 and arriving Cairo at 0540. Service will utilize Airbus 330/200 aircraft.

EgyptairContinues Expansion

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