East African Safari Air
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| Founded | 1989 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Milan; Rome; London; Ibiza; Zanzibar; Kilimanjaro; Zurich; Juba | ||||||
| Frequent-flyer program | None | ||||||
| Alliance | None | ||||||
| Fleet size | Fleet East African Safari Air: (Up to and before 2004) 1 Beechcraft B200 Super King Air 4 Cessna 208 Caravans 4 Boeing 767-300 ER East African Safari Air Express (After 2003 and until 2008): 2 Fokker F28 4000 1 Grumman Gulfstream I 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 | ||||||
| Destinations | 11 | ||||||
| Company slogan | Fly There Faster | ||||||
| Parent company | East African Safari Air Limited | ||||||
| Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya | ||||||
| Key people | Anthony Ambaka Kegode, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||||||
| Employees | 97 | ||||||
East African Safari Air is an airline based in Kenya. Its international operations were suspended in September 2004, by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, but the airline still maintained scheduled regional and domestic services through its subsidiary East African Safari Air Express. In December 2010, East African Safari Air Express was ostensibly purchased by the parent company of another Kenyan airline Fly540 and was rebranded as Fly SAX. (Litigation concerning this purchase is pending in Kenyan courts).
East African Safari Air Limited was founded by Anthony A Kegode, a well known African entrepreneur and aviator. The airline was derived from a company known as Car Hire Services (Aviation) Limited, which was incorporated on or about 16 May 1989 in the Companies Registry as No. C. 40158. The Company later changed its name to East African Safari Air Limited on 27 February 1998.
At the time of incorporation of Car Hire Services (Aviation) limited the shareholders were Mr. Kegode, M/s William Henry Boyd Parkinson, Pritam Singh Panesar and Samuel Gakuru. On 27 November 1990, Mr. Mohammed Aslam Khan was appointed Managing Director of CHS Aviation, and in December 1990 East African Safari Air (then CHS Aviation) was granted a license from the Civil Aviation Board to operate Scheduled and Coach services to the Maasai Mara. Additionally, CHS Aviation operated 2 Cessna 310s and 1 Cessna 402B. In 1990 East African Safari Air (then CHS Aviation) borrowed US$247,000 from Barclays Bank Kenya and purchased a de Havilland Twin Otter from Sataircraft in Denmark registration 5Y-KEG (after the first three letters of the founder's last name KEGODE) and leased it to Air Kenya Aviation Ltd.
In 1992 CHS Aviation became the first privately owned Kenyan carrier, if not in the East African region, to be licensed by the Kenya Civil Aviation Board to operate charter flights to and from South Africa to Mombasa using a Boeing 707 aircraft. Kenya Airways attempted to have the designation withdrawn as it faced the prospect of competition for the first time from the private sector.
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