What we doWet Lease & ACMI
Your flight number. Our everything else.
Jets and turboprops for airlines, leased with crew, maintenance and insurance.
The short version
ACMI stands for aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance. It's also the business ALS was named for: Aircraft Leasing Services. An airline gets capacity without buying, crewing or maintaining another aircraft. We supply all four, the flights carry your code, and you pay the costs of flying them. ACMI accounts for about 90% of what ALS does.
Key facts
- Share of ALS's revenue that comes from ACMI contracts
- ~90%
- ERJ-145, ERJ-135, Dash 8, Beechcraft 1900D. 19 to 50 seats.
- 4 types
- Registered since 2011, which is what airline partners check first.
- IOSA
- In your livery, on your code.
- Branded
How it works
Who pays for what
| We provide | You provide |
|---|---|
| The aircraft | Fuel |
| Pilots, cabin crew and engineers | Landing, handling, parking and storage fees |
| All maintenance | Hotels for the crew |
| Hull and third-party insurance (in the lease rate) | Overflight, navigation and air traffic control charges |
| Flight following | War-risk insurance, where it applies |
| Painting the aircraft in your colours, if you want it |
When it makes sense
Start-ups.
Fly your first routes on our certificate while you build your own fleet.
Peaks.
Extra seats for a season, a pilgrimage or an election, without a long lease.
New routes.
Try the route before committing an aircraft to it.
Cover.
When one of your aircraft is in a check, or unexpectedly on the ground.
Proof
Kenya Airways.
An ERJ-145 LR on wet lease, flying as KQ.
Read the case
Safarilink.
Grand Caravans and a 1900D in Kenya and Tanzania.
Air Mauritius.
A Twin Otter in the Comoros.
DHL.
Caravans, King Airs and a 1900D on express cargo in East Africa.
Sale and leaseback
Sell us the aircraft. Keep flying it.
An airline sells an aircraft to us and leases it back, usually for several years. The aircraft stays on your routes; the capital goes back on your balance sheet. It also works for new aircraft: we buy it from the manufacturer and lease it to you from delivery. Financing runs through Connoisseur Aviation, our associated company in Nairobi.
Questions
What does ACMI stand for?
Aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance: the four things we supply. It's also the business ALS was named for: Aircraft Leasing Services.
Which costs does the airline pay?
Fuel; landing, handling, parking and storage fees; hotels for the crew; overflight, navigation and air traffic control charges; war-risk insurance, where it applies; and painting the aircraft in your colours, if you want it.
Which aircraft can we lease?
The Embraer ERJ-145 and ERJ-135, the Dash 8 and the Beechcraft 1900D, from 19 to 50 seats.
Is ALS IOSA-registered?
Yes, since 2011. It's usually the first thing an airline partner checks.
Can you buy our aircraft and lease it back to us?
Yes. An airline sells an aircraft to us and leases it back, usually for several years, and it also works for new aircraft from delivery. SeeSale and leaseback.
Seven more ways to use it.
- Humanitarian & UNAircraft, crews and engineers for the aid world. "Go now" included.
- Energy & MiningCrew changes and site runs, to oil-company audit standards.
- Air AmbulanceTwo stretchers, an ICU team and 3,700 km of range.
- CharterChoose the aircraft, the day and the airstrip. We'll bring the pilots.
- MaintenanceA hangar at Wilson Airport, open to other people's aircraft too.
- Flight TrainingLearn to fly at an airline. Then stay for the job.
- HelicoptersFor when there's no strip at all.