History
Airkenya Aviation, which is a privately owned limited liability company, was formed in 1985 from the merger of Air Kenya and Sunbird Aviation. The two companies had over 20 years of general aviation experience in East Africa.

Air Kenya provides a network of scheduled services throughout Kenya and operates charters within the East African region. Destinations served by the scheduled services from Nairobi are Lamu, Malindi and Kiwayu on the Coast, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Nanyuki, Lewa Downs and the game parks of Amboseli, Meru, Samburu and the Masai Mara.

Location
The main administration, flight operations and engineering base is at Wilson Airport approximately 4 kms from the centre of Nairobi.

Personnel
The company presently employs 160 staff of whom 24 are pilots of various nationalities. Six of the pilots have each flown more than 10,000 and the total pilot experience exceeds 160,000 hours.

Incentive Travel
Airkenya has considerable experience of moving large incentive travel groups. Past projects have required the transfer of over 900 passengers in one day.

Tanzania
Airkenya has a sister company, Regional Air Service, based in Arusha, Tanzania, which provides scheduled services to Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Seronera, Grumeti and Kleins Camp as well as charter fights throughout the country. From June 15th 2005, the scheduled services will also include Zanzibar and Dar Es Salaam.

Approvals
The company is an IATA airline an approval that is only given after a strict technical and operational audit. In addition it has previously been cleared to carry VIP passengers such as the British Royal Family, H.H. Aga Khan, ex-US president Jimmy Carter and senior Cabinet Ministers of several countries.

Insurance
Insurance for the aircraft, passengers and third parties is placed in the London underwriting market through the company’s brokers, Willis Limited London.

The Dash 7 aircraft carry a combined passenger/ third party liability cover of US$100 million and the other aircraft a limit of US$50 million per incident.

Maintenance
Except for overhaul of the turbo-prop engines on the larger aircraft all maintenance is carried out in-house by the companys engineering section which is a work station approved by The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KIA/29/82), and The Tanzanian Directorate of Civil Aviation (AI/CAI.93)