Sahara African Aviation is a specialist aviation leasing company offering tailormade turnkey lease solutions for your commercial needs
Leasing allows our clients the flexibility to adjust their fleet in line with market demands, whilst managing their capital outlay and risk.
Our ACMI or AMI + Crew lease options offer customised solutions for all your air transport requirements and include a comprehensive support structure at each base to ensure minimal downtime and a competitive advantage in terms of operational control & costs.
Our base support structures include the provision of an approved line station and a full time crew of pilots, engineers & cabin crew.
Sahara’s flight operations, maintenance, technical planning and procurement specialists are based at our headquarters at KMI Airport, South Africa.
Our staff are highly experienced in their respective fields and our aircraft captains are carefully chosen to ensure they are capable of handling the unique challenges of flying in Africa (challenging environments).
We pride ourselves in our ability to operate safely under challenging conditions
LEASING SOLUTIONS
Leasing allows our clients the flexibility to adjust their fleet in line with market demands, whilst managing their capital outlay and risk.
Our ACMI or AMI + Crew lease options offer customised solutions for all your air transport requirements and include a comprehensive support structure at each base to ensure minimal downtime and a competitive advantage in terms of operational control & costs.
Our base support structures include the provision of an approved line station and a full time set of flight crew, cabin crew & engineers.
Sahara’s flight operations, maintenance, technical planning and procurement specialists are based at our headquarters at KMI Airport, South Africa.
Our staff are highly experienced in their respective fields and our captains are carefully chosen to ensure they are capable of handling the unique challenges of flying in challenging environments.
OUR COMMITMENT TO SAFETY & QUALITY ASSURANCE
Sahara’s dedicated Quality Assurance department ensures all engineers and operational staff are provided with ongoing training on the aircraft as well as in procedures and legislation. Sahara maintains a robust Flight & Duty as well as a Safety Management System.
Furthermore our quality assurance departments on both our maintenance and operations conduct on-going routine quality audit assessments to ensure complete compliance with regulations and our own operating and maintenance manuals and procedures.
OPERATIONAL CONTROL
Apart from a well-integrated and proven operational control of the aircraft, crew and maintenance at our bases and head office. Sahara uses the powerful Air Maestro integrated Aviation Management tool to assist in the complete control over all company resources, crew and maintenance personnel recency, FDP of crew, crew and staff notices, safety and awareness reports, internal QA audits etc.
All aircraft are fitted with real-time Indigo Sat tracking devices offering live flight following of our aircraft 24/7 by the Operations team.
FLIGHT CREW
Safety is always at the top of our agenda and thus we have stringent recruitment and training policies for all our flight and cabin crew.
Our highly experienced Captains have an average of 5’000 hours each and our First Officers an average of 2’000 hours. Sahara requires all pilots to attend 6 monthly ground school training & proficiency checks and annual simulator recurrent training at an approved Flight Safety International simulator training centre.
Cabin Crew undergo regular training by an SACAA approved ATO (Approved Training Organisation).
Our pilots, cabin crew and engineers rotate through client locations on an on-going basis to ensure skill transfer across the line stations.
MAINTENANCE
Sahara African Aviation hold their own AMO in order to control the maintenance of their fleet both at their base of operations and at their SACAA approved line stations resulting in a 99.8% dispatch rate
MAINTENANCE BASES
At Sahara Africa Aviation we have an uncompromising approach to safety and maintenance. We hold an Air Maintenance Organization (AMO) certification under the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) regulations ensuring our aircraft maintenance adheres to the most stringent international standards.
All scheduled maintenance is carried out in South Africa at our main base, Kruger Mpumalanga International airport (KMI) in Mbombela, by a dedicated team of qualified and Embraer certified Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, structural technicians and interior experts.
Our SACAA approved maintenance facility is fully geared up and structured to accommodate a large range of maintenance services which includes all major required inspections, avionics upgrades and complete interior refurbishment. We have a Heavy Duty Maintenance facility at KMI which allows the company to perform all heavy engine maintenance and boroscopes in-house.
Minor maintenance and routine checks are carried out at our numerous SACAA approved line station maintenance facilities by the on-site engineer.
We aim to achieve the highest level of quality service while ensuring the timely turnaround of the aircraft.
PARTS INVENTORY
We keep a comprehensive parts and consumables inventory, including spare engines, on hand thereby allowing all maintenance requirements to be met internally, minimising down time and ensuring dispatch reliability. We have built up our inventory over our years of operation and have excellent supplier relationships to ensure supply chain guarantee across our fleet.
We have an unparalleled approach to service and go to great lengths to ensure the fastest provision of spare parts to our bases all across Africa and the Middle East.
Our dedicated support team and proactive approach to parts supply chain management is key to ensuring minimum down time for our clients
SAAM uses sophisticated AERONET software for maintenance planning, to track all aircraft components and cycles as well as parts procurement to ensure CAA compliance.
In order to support our performance commitment to our clients, Sahara African Aviation Maintenance establishes up a fully equipped and certified line station at all of our operational basis, stocked with high usage parts and consumables under the control of qualified EMB 120 and ERJ 145 certified engineers.
