Some Organizations spend huge amount of money on taking adhoc charter flights other than engaging a consultant to carry out feasibility study of the activities including movement of passengers & cargo to ascertain the viable way to carry out these project. It is important as an organization to have a feasibility study on all your projects on transport and logistics and you may even realize you have saved a quarter of your allocated budget on the project proposed.

Lease Management Of Aircrafts for Relief Supplies.

It is easier when you have volume of work especially in war torn areas like South Sudan, Somalia, Darfur, Chad, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosovo to have aircrafts on wet lease. The advantage of leasing aircrafts is that the more hours you fly in a month the lesser the rate per hour drops. Though in leasing you need to commit a certain amount of hours in a month of which you will pay whether you utilize them or not but you can form consortium with other organizations so that you can allocate each a number of hours and if it exceeds the guaranteed hours then you will get the rate per hour dropped. The advantage of leasing is that you will have exclusive use of the crew and aircraft and easy to handle emergencies especially when operating in remote areas and war torn countries. When leasing you has to carefully select the best aircrafts with the performance in the area you are operating and the work involved. For humanitarian & Relief Supplies the aircraft should to convertible into both cargo and passengers configuration within a short time. If the area of operation is inaccessible you can use aircrafts to do air-drops and ensure the aircraft has a bigger tonnage so that you can do a few trips in a day. All types of aircrafts are available for both wet and dry lease in different tonnage or seating capacity of 1 tone to 45 tones.

Humanitarian & Relief Flights in Mogadishu/Bosaso/Galgayo/K50/Kismayu/Marere/Guriel/Garowe (Somalia).

We have United Nations, European Union, on-Governmental Organizations, Africa Union; International Organizations provide humanitarian relief aid in terms of food, medicine, experts like doctors, engineers, consultants, teachers, community social workers to assist the citizen of Somalia to be able to leave like any other human being. These organizations have spend billions in transport, food ,education,medicine,textiles,mosquito nets to prevent malaria, seedlings for agriculture in ensuring that there is stability. They also organize for their personnel emergency evacuations to safer places when awar breaks or there is an attack.Unhcr which handles refugees do organize expatriation flights to refugee camps in Kenya namely, Kakuma, Daadab in Tanzania Ngara among others and ensure these citizens are given refugee status. European Union, United Nations have leased aircrafts that are stationed in areas where there is tidy security ready to monitor situations. Due to high insecurity in Somalia due to civil war the organizations operating there have put emergency preparedness plans in place incase of emergency evacuation, medical evacuations and air ambulance and the aircrafts used are jets or turbo prop which can fly at high attitude.

Humanitarian flights in Kenya.

Kenya is the host of many International, United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations headquarters and regional offices and being the hub for all flights into/out with also Mombasa port serving Eastern & Central Africa region. United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations had put Lokichogio in Northern Kenya as the hub to war torn countries like South Sudan, Darfur, Chad,DR Congo but with the signing of the CPA 2005 between the Southerners and Northerners which brought to an end of the 21 years of civil war in Sudan the hub was moved to Juba the capital city of the Government of South Sudan. In North Eastern Kenya Unicef,Wfp,NGOs have set up stations to assist the people living their as it is semi-arid land and they have explored ways of assisting them in farming, diary farming, irrigations and introducing ways of reducing diseases in animals and people. The areas in Northern Kenya are Loyengalani,Lokichar,Lokitaung,Kaikor,Lokimariang,Lokichogio,Lodwar,Lokori and many others and North Eastern areas are Marsabit,Moyale,Sololo,Iliret,Laisamis,Kalacha,Korr,Wajir,Garissa,Modogashe,Hola,Bura,Takaba,Banisa,Elwak,Mandera,Rhamu and many others. Most of these airstrips need aircrafts with short take off and landing performance as they have a lot of potholes and some have been unserviceable for years as they are government airstrips. Only airstrips used by Amref and WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR are repaired and that is because they provide humanitarian aid. To these areas you can only get private charter flights and it is only Lokichogio and Lodwar where scheduled flights are operated to Lokichogio twice daily and Lodwar three times a week. In these areas also insurance companies are issuing medical cover for medical evacuation and air ambulance using both fixed wing and helicopters.

Humanitarian & Relief Supplies for Cargo & Passengers South Sudan.

After the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2005 this opened the entire South Sudan with United Nations, International Organizations, on-Governmental Organizations moving to Juba as it was made the capital city. Whenever there was need for a private charter to airlift cargo or passengers it was to come from Lokichogio or Nairobi which was very expensive, but all this became history as air charter companies opened their base in Juba making the connectivity easier and cheaper to the interior of South Sudan. The airlines also started scheduled services to/from Juba which made air travel cheaper and affordable as competition was stiff and everyone trying to outsmart the other by price tag of war and this benefitted the travelers. There are scheduled flights for cargo and passengers from Juba to Rumbek,Malakal,Wau,Yei,Bentiu,Aweil,Yambio and for those with programs that can not meet scheduled flights can take charter flights as they are aircrafts ranging from 12.17,37 seater for cargo charter and passenger charter. You can get a scheduled flight from Nairobi, Wilson Airport via Lokichogio to Rumbek four times per week. You can charter flights from Rumbek or Juba to Darfur, Chad, Entebbe, Goma, Kigali, Bujumbura, for cargo or passenger aircraft. There flights from Entebbe (Uganda) to Yei, Rumbek, Juba, Nyal, Yambio, Akobo on scheduled and private charter flights. International organizations have also went as far as issuing covers for political and patient air ambulance & Emergency Medical Evacuation and these does not matter where you are as the logistics are all in place for air transport. In South Sudan everything is available from motorvechicle manufacturing for Peugeot,Mazda,Toyota,Trucks,Mitsubishi,mobile phone companies, telecommunication software,banks,security firms, construction companies, clearing& forwarding firms,footwear,textile,bookshops ,hoteliers, and many others.Infact in South Sudan you can do filming safaris of the Nile and even do cultural safaris and for one to take photos of the people you need their consent. There wild animals to like, snakes, monkeys, crocodile, hippos, lions which you can do scenic safari. South Sudan is a tourist attraction country with many activities happening just like any other tourists destination.

Humanitarian & Relief Flights DR Congo.

This country has been in war for many years and its one of the richest mineral country in Central Africa.It has its capital city in Kinshasha.Many Non-Governmental Organizations and United Nations have their base in Lubumbashi, Goma, Mbuji Mayi when the provide humanitarian aid from and United Nations has deployed peace-keeping forces in DR Congo due heavy fighting by the government and the rebels group. The International fraternity including Africa Union always do organize dialogue conferences between the rebels and government .Children are suffering and Unicef, World Vision, Care International, Save the children among others have stepped in to ensure there is no child abuse for labour that is the rebels using children as soldiers and also they get aproper diet to stop them from suffering from nutrition. Many organizations have leased aircrafts to provide relief supplies to various regions withing DR Congo. Some take adhoc charter flights for cargo or passenger flights. We have airlines operating schedule services to Lubumbashi, Kinshasha and Goma. There are tourists flights into DR Congo for gorilla safaris as the monkey species, Chimpanze, Baboon are found in the Congo forest. Other services available in DR Congo are air ambulance, emergency evacuation flights, medical evacuation flights, private executive jet flights, aerial survey & photography, helicopter flights, scheduled and non-scheduled flights for cargo & passengers among other aviation related activities.

You can get humanitarian & Relief flights from anywhere in the world and with the specifications of the aircraft you require which will be determined with the airport/airstrip length, width and surface of the runway and the attitude.

Indeed humanitarian & relief flights have played an a vital role in distribution of food,medicine,personnel in inaccessible areas and also through medical evacuation ,emergency evacuations and air ambulance. With these services people in war torn areas and remote areas have a reason to laugh for still being alive despite of all difficulties they are facing.

Anthony Juma is the Editor and Senior Aviation Director at Wings over Africa Aviation. <br><a href='http://www.wingsoverafrica-aviation.com’> This is an Air Charter Company that specializes on Humanitarian & Relief Charter Flights Kenya/South Sudan/Somalia/DR Congo/Darfur/Chad. </a> The website has guided many organizations in achieving their air transport dream. For more information and guidance, visit the site at http:// /www http://www.wingsoverafrica-aviation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=67 </a>