Aviation advisory · Kenya & Africa
Build, certify and scale aviation ventures in Africa.
Africa is the fastest-growing aviation market on earth and the least profitable. Demand is not the constraint — execution is. We take operators and investors from first idea to certificate to sustained performance.
The market, honestly
Why so many African ventures stall
Where are you starting from?
Two tracks, one practice
The problems of a carrier already flying and an investor holding capital are not the same problem. Pick the door that fits and the tools follow.
I'm building something new
Greenfield airline, training organisation, MRO, ground handler, aerodrome or drone operation — anywhere in Kenya or the region.
- Map the five-phase certification path, gate by gate
- Size the capital and test the covenant before you commit
- Design the holding structure and the accepted postholder set
I'm already flying
An operating carrier with cost, reliability, revenue or governance pressure — and a board asking where the value is going.
- Benchmark 8 weighted domains against African and global data
- Get a board-ready gap report in under 30 minutes
- Convert findings into a costed 90-day sprint
Track 1 · Build a venture
From capital to certificate
Certification runs on a fixed clock and burns cash the whole way. These four tools exist because the expensive mistakes are made in the first month, not the last.
Track 2 · Operate an airline
From diagnosis to delivered value
The scorecard is Phase 1. Forty questions across eight weighted domains produce a 0–100 health index and a profile you can put in front of a board — benchmarked against African and global aggregates, not against nothing.
Then deep diagnostic, prioritisation, board delivery and a 90-day implementation sprint turn findings into results.
Run the Airline Health Scorecard →Tool A1 · Sample profile
■ Sample airline
╌ Typical African carrier (public aggregates, indicative)
Your radar is built from your own 40 answers
The full toolkit
Free where it helps you decide, deployed where it delivers
Toolboxes A and V are free and start here. B, C and D are deployed inside an engagement.
Results in practice
What engagements typically deliver
Indicative composites drawn from anonymised patterns across engagements with African and Middle-East operators and investors. Representative ranges, deliberately not attributable to any single client.
Greenfield venture · pre-certification
Certification on schedule
A sequenced Schedule of Events, a complete formal application and manuals written to be demonstrable typically remove 3–6 months of avoidable delay — the single largest controllable cost in a start-up's pre-revenue phase.
Regional carrier · 10–15 aircraft
Fuel & cost discipline
Entry diagnostic flags fuel share well above the regional average. Contract retender and burn-tracking in a 90-day sprint typically yields 4–7% fuel spend reduction — several times the engagement cost in year one.
Investor · capital deployment
Structure that survives diligence
Ownership-and-control exposure, lender-conflict mitigation and substance obligations resolved before incorporation — where they cost a fraction of what unwinding them costs after a facility is signed.
Ranges reflect anonymised, aggregated engagement experience; your own report and debrief scope the specific opportunity.
Start with clarity. Every tool here is free.
Nothing you enter leaves your browser. Take the output to your board, your lender or your regulator — and talk to us when you want it turned into a plan.