<h1>AviaDev Finance and Leasing Forum</h1>

<h5>The AviaDev Finance and Leasing Forum is Africa’s only dedicated platform connecting the aviation finance community with airlines across the continent.</h5>
<p><strong>Taking place as part of AviaDev Africa 2026 on 10 June, this focused half-day forum is designed to bridge the financing gap for African aviation and catalyse fleet growth and investment.</strong></p>
<p>Bringing together airlines, lessors, financiers, OEMs, and development finance institutions for a results-oriented programme. Through keynote presentations, real-life case studies, expert panels, and airline investment pitches, it tackles key topics such as:</p>
<p>• Fleet financing strategies</p>
<p>• Aircraft leasing structures</p>
<p>• Managing credit risk in African markets</p>
<p>• Accessing and structuring capital for growth</p>
<p>Whether your goal is to finance aircraft, understand regional risk, or meet qualified airline prospects, this is the platform where aviation finance and opportunity converge.</p>

<h5>The AviaDev Finance Forum attracts a high-calibre audience from across the aviation and finance ecosystem:</h5>

<h5>Airlines</h5>
<p>CFOs, finance teams, commercial leaders, and fleet planners seeking funding and growth partnerships.</p>

<h5>Lessors</h5>
<p>Global and regional leasing companies targeting emerging African markets.</p>

<h5>Financiers</h5>
<p>Corporate banks and credit agencies exploring structured aviation finance deals.</p>

<h5>Development Finance Institutions</h5>
<p>Including Afreximbank, IFC, AfDB, and others offering capital and risk mitigation.</p>

<h5>OEMs &amp; Manufacturers</h5>
<p>Presenting aircraft delivery plans and strategic growth across Africa.</p>

<h5>Legal &amp; Advisory Firms</h5>
<p>Supporting deal structuring, compliance, and credit assessments.<br /></p>

<h5>Civil Aviation Authorities</h5>
<p>Enabling policy and regulatory environments for sustainable airline investment.<br /></p>

ABSA

Afreximbank

Deutsche Bank

Investec

Nedbank

Banks & Financiers

Aercap

Aero Capital Solutions

Aergo Capital

AvMax

Avolon

CDB Aviation

ELFC

Falko

Jetcraft Commercial

Regional One

SMBC Aviation Capital

TrueNoord

Lessors & Leasing Advisors

Airbus

De Havilland

Deutsche Aircraft

Embraer

OEMs & Aircraft Providers

Air Charter International

Air Charter Service

Air Explore

Avion Express

Chapman Freeborn

Fly2Sky

Global

HiFly

Charter & ACMI Operators

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Advantage Air

Africa World Airlines

Air France

AirLink

Air Seychelles

Air Tanzania

ASky

Astral

Blue Sky Airways

CemAir

Delta

DragonFly

Emirates

Eswatini Air

Ethiopian

Eurowings discover

fastjet

Federal Airlines

Fly Angola

Fly Namibia

Fly Safair

Havilah Aviation

Ibom Air

Jambojet

Kenya Airways

LAM Mozambique

Lift

Lufthansa Group

Passion Air

Precision Air

Phoenix Aviation 

Proflight Zambia

Qatar

RwandAir

Safe Air

South Africa Airways

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Turkish Airlines

Uganda Airlines

Established in 1991, Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) is a state-owned organization with the responsibility of constructing, operating, and managing aerodromes in Kenya; other functions include, providing and maintaining facilities necessary for efficient aircraft operations, providing rescue and fire-fighting equipment and services, and carrying out related activities. 

KAA is currently responsible for managing a total of 27 airports and airstrips throughout Kenya, including major airports such as Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Kisumu International Airport in Kisumu, Eldoret International Airport in Eldoret, and Wilson Airport. Their role in providing crucial infrastructure and support for the country's aviation sector has established them as a significant player in the Kenyan aviation industry. 

To ensure a seamless travel experience for their customers, KAA is dedicated to investing in modernization, innovation, and infrastructure development, enabling them to meet the ever-changing demands of the aviation industry while maintaining high-quality service standards.

Kenya Airports Authority

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Embraer is a global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil that manufactures commercial, executive, agricultural, and defense & security aircraft. The company also provides after-sales services & support through a worldwide network of wholly-owned entities and authorized agents.

Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. Today, the global fleet transports over 145 million passengers annually. On average, an Embraer aircraft takes off somewhere in the world every 10 seconds.

Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats and is the main exporter of high value-added goods in Brazil. The company is a leader in sustainability initiatives that include development of the most fuel-efficient aircraft today, and new disruptive electric, hybrid and hydrogen propulsion aircraft concepts. Embraer also has environmentally-responsible manufacturing processes and partnerships to scale up SAF production.

The company maintains industrial units, offices, and service and parts distribution centers across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

NACO, Netherlands Airport Consultants, is a world leading airport consultancy and engineering firm with over 70 years’ experience in aviation. We offer tailor-made solutions from Master Planning, Building Design and Civil Engineering to Strategy Development, Business Planning and transaction advisory for airport PPPs.
Our multidisciplinary team of experts, have been providing integrated planning, design and consultancy services to over 600 airports in more than 100 countries. Contributing to sustainable airport development is at the heart of our mission. We provide innovative, sustainable and localised solutions that meet clients’ needs and operational demands while creating distinctive passenger experiences.
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NACO

Ravinala Airports manages Antananarivo and Nosy Be international airports. It’s missions are to develop the capacity of those airports, refurbish existing facilities and bring them up to safety and environmental protection standards, improve the quality of airport services, meet customer expectations (airlines, passengers, businesses, freight, General Aviation) in order to increase their satisfaction in a sustainable manner, and participate in Madagascar's economic growth through its routes development strategy, to, and, from, Madagascar.

Ravinala Airports

Technodyn International is the exclusive strategic African partner of IFS, delivering on-premise and cloud-based enterprise applications for businesses that build, sell, distribute, and maintain goods and services. Our portfolio extends through service management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise asset management solutions and other symbiotic products and services,  delivered modularly or as a suite hosted locally on premise in your data centre, in cloud or our cloud. We ensure the effective delivery of solutions, products, services, and training to our customers. Headquartered in South Africa we are a Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) company delivering quality global solutions to the African market. 

Technodyn International

South Africa Tourism

AerCap is the global leader in aviation leasing with one of the most attractive order books in the industry. AerCap serves approximately 300 customers around the world with comprehensive fleet solutions. AerCap is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (AER) and is based in Dublin with offices in Shannon, Miami, Singapore, Memphis, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Dubai, Seattle, Toulouse and other locations around the world.

AerCap

Avion Express is the leading narrow-body ACMI and charter operator operating an Airbus A320 family aircraft. Working in the field for over 18 years, we have established a long-term partnership with clients in Europe and are also operating in Africa, Asia-Pacific, South America.
Avion Express is a family member of Avia Solutions Group, a leading aerospace services group with what has become almost 100 offices and production facilities worldwide.

Avia Solutions Group is significantly backed by the assets of over 7,000 highly skilled aviation professionals, serving more than 2,000 clients throughout Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, and worldwide.

DPO Pay offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and businesses of all sizes, right up to global companies across Africa, the solution, the technology, the opportunity and the support to make and receive online and offline payments wherever they want.  Our robust payment engine supports global currencies, various payment methods, and intelligent features designed to help you grow.

DPO Pay

Rolls-Royce pioneers the power that matters to connect, power and protect society. We have pledged to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in our operations by 2030 (excluding product testing) and joined the UN Race to Zero campaign in 2020, affirming our ambition to play a fundamental role in enabling the sectors in which we operate achieve net zero carbon by 2050.

Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 150 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces and navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.

Annual underlying revenue was £10.95 billion in 2021, underlying operating profit was £414m and we invested £1.18 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 28 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a publicly traded company (LSE: RR., ADR: RYCEY, LEI: 213800EC7997ZBLZJH69)

Rolls Royce

NavPass is an innovative technology company that partners with sovereign governments to accurately identify, track, calculate and efficiently collect 99% of aviation navigational and usage fees.

NavPass is also able to provide accurate statistics for Air Traffic Control (ATC) analysis, airspace design that will optimize airspace for economic prosperity, and precise flight tracking to ensure accurate data. 

In Country, NavPass deploys and maintains a network of overlapping proprietary specialized multi-frequency receivers. These receivers are further supplemented with a dedicated data feed from a satellite system, as well as data from third parties including airlines and Air Traffic Control (ATC) operations.

Good airspace design and instrument procedures ensure savings of flight miles, time and fuel for the airlines, while reducing emissions to the local communities. Our designers have produced safe procedures throughout the busiest airspaces in the world with over 7,000 operations a day to thirty-seven airports.  All our designs, CDO/CCO procedures, and ATC training follow ICAO manuals that we have helped co-author.

Our team is comprised of former employees of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), as well as aviation experts and professionals from multiple countries.

Navpass

Aviation Co-ordination Services (Pty) Ltd (ACS) is a not for profit organisation that provides operational support services to international, regional, and domestic airlines operating from, to and within South Africa.

ACS was established in 1999 as a joint initiative of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA), the Board of Airline Representatives of South Africa (BARSA) and the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA).

The purpose of creating ACS was to combine resources and provide non-competing, shared services in accordance with national and international standards as well as following best practice.

To ensure cost-effective, integrated delivery, ACS invests in the latest technology and equipment. We have an excellent operational record and are regularly audited by regulatory entities, in line with international laws, regulations and standards, including:

•	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
•	Transport Security Administration  (TSA)
•	SACAA (South African Civil Aviation Authority)

Contact details:
fisanin@acs.za.com 
Brand and SME Development Specialist 
Corporate Affairs Office 

Thapelo Mokwena 
thapelom@acs.za.com 
Divisional Executive: Operations 


Founded in 1999, Aergo is an international aircraft leasing platform with established locations in Dublin, New York, Hong Kong, London and Nairobi. Funds managed by AB CarVal took a 90% shareholding in Aergo Capital in October 2014. Aergo has substantial shareholder support to support its growth strategy from both AB CarVal and its new parent, Alliance Bernstein. Aergo Capital’s current fleet comprises of a mix of widebody, narrowbody and turboprop aircraft with an average age of 8.2 years. As of April 2023, Aergo Capital’s owned and managed portfolio comprises of 270 assets, valued at approximately $6 billion.



Astral Aviation

Ink Innovation S.L. is a technology provider for the travel industry with core expertise in developing seamlessly connected journeys and passenger experiences. Ink transforms travel by enabling airports, airlines and other industry operators to achieve greater flexibility with its innovative and affordable technology.

Being one of the first to bring the full departure control suite onto mobile devices, Ink remains passionate about pioneering next-gen technology and experiences. Ink's unique ecosystem comprises biometrics, digital ID, blockchain, mobile technology, cloud systems, and self-service devices to improve operational flow.

Headquartered in Spain, Ink operates worldwide, partnering with clients such as Copenhagen Airport, Jet2, TUI Airline, La Compagnie, Menzies Aviation and Sabre.

ISO 27001 certified • IATA Partner • ACI Partner | For more information, visit www.innovation.ink.


Jetcraft Commercial is the commercial aircraft division of global aviation trading firm Jetcraft®, supporting airlines and operators in the fields of buying, selling, leasing, marketing and financing their aircraft. With a strong network and team of sales and marketing executives in every major market around the world, Jetcraft Commercial is a nimble and dedicated partner within the commercial aircraft sales and leasing community, offering the value, choice, and flexibility that leading companies’ demand.

By providing a market place to travel vendors, we intend to enable all possible product and service providers and help them prepare offers to the travellers.

Tourish

Airports Company of Mozambique

Airports Company South Africa

Airports Company of Zimbabwe

Cape Town Air Access is an award-winning air-route development project, responsible for establishing direct flights that connect Cape Town and the Western Cape with the rest of the world.

The project, housed within Wesgro, is an impressive collaboration between six government entities and the private sector.

Cape Town Air Access

Dube Tradeport

The Namibia Airports Company (NAC) was formed in 1998 by an Act of Parliament, Act 25 of 1998 and in February 1999, NAC commenced their operations of developing, managing and operating safe and secure airports on sound business principles with due considerations to the interest of our stakeholders.
The company’s vision is “To be a prime service provider in airports operations and management”. 

The NAC is primarily focused on ensuring: The arrival, surface movement, parking or departure of aircrafts; The servicing of aircrafts, including the supply of fuel and lubricants; and Ground handling of aircrafts, passengers, baggage and cargo.

The company employs over 350 employees and is committed to looking after the interests of our passengers and people, prioritizing their needs, wellbeing and safety at all times.

NAC strives to provide a safe, healthy environment for our passengers and people. We work closely with stakeholders and partners, locally and internationally in our aim to continuously improve  the socio-economic sectors of Namibia.

Namibia Airports Company

SOGEAC is a Mixed Economy Company, created by ordinance No. 064-PRG / 87 of 17 August 1987. It has management, operational and development responsibilities of Conakry Airport. Its activities started on November 2, 1987.

SOGEAC develops and operates the services necessary to ensure the smooth runing of the airport; (Airlines, freight forwarders, travel agencies, passengers and airport employees, airport services, business, car parking, Catering, etc …). It  also provides management, maintenance, renewal and development of structures, ground, buildings, facilities, equipment and services necessary to ensure the full functioning of the airport. 

SOGEAC Aeroport de Conakry

Uganda Civil Aviation Authority

Zambia Airports Corporation Limited

Kenya Airways, a member of the Sky Team Alliance, is a leading African airline flying to 42 destinations worldwide, 35 of which are in Africa. Prior to the COVID pandemic, the airline carried a record number of over five million passengers in 2019. Its fleet comprises of wide body Boeing aircrafts, this includes its flagship B787 Dreamliner and narrow body Embraer E190 aircrafts. The on-board service is renowned and the lie-flat business class seat on the wide-body aircraft is consistently voted among the world’s top 10. Kenya Airways takes pride in being at the forefront of connecting Africa to the World and the World to Africa through its hub at the new ultra-modern Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.  

For more information go to www.kenya-airways.com or call our 24-hour Customer Services Desk: +254 20 327 4747, Twitter: @KenyaAirways, Facebook: KenyaAirways, Instagram: OfficialKenyaAirways 

Young Aviators Club of Africa

AeroTime is a global multi-channel aviation digital and professional hub providing news, events, and advisory services to the aviation world. Our online news platform informs, equips, and empowers a monthly audience of over 2.5 million industry insiders and enthusiasts, as well as over 500,000 newsletter recipients and social media followers. Our readership encompasses experts and professionals working in aviation, operational team members including pilots, cabin crew, and engineers, and C-level executives and decision makers. Our platform provides a range of strategic and tactical support to aviation businesses. This entails a full scope of brand awareness solutions, including display and native advertising, available through our digital news site, www.aerotime.aero, and through our daily newsletter and other online platforms.
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AviaDev Finance and Leasing Forum

The AviaDev Finance and Leasing Forum is Africa’s only dedicated platform connecting the aviation finance community with airlines across the continent.

The AviaDev Finance Forum attracts a high-calibre audience from across the aviation and finance ecosystem:

Airlines

Lessors

Financiers

Development Finance Institutions

OEMs & Manufacturers

Legal & Advisory Firms

Civil Aviation Authorities