UN procedure for using airlines for staff and cargo carriage
1. International Airlines
Generally, all large international air carriers approved by IATA, such as British Airways, Air
France, KLM, Lufthansa, Emirates, Kenyan Airways, South African Airways, Ethiopian
Airways, Qatar Airways, Egypt Air, etc are allowed to use as well as those in partnerships with
them.
2. Regional and National Airlines
The following air companies are recommended;
Name of air carrier
Kenya airways
Ethiopian airways
South Africa airways
Emirates
Qatar airways
UNHAS
ECHO flights
Country
Comments
International
International
International
International
International
South Sudan, DRC
South
Sudan,
Kenya,
Uganda, DRC
UNAMIS
South Sudan
When no other choice
MAF
(Mission South
Sudan,
Kenya,
Aviation Fellowship)
Uganda, DRC
MONUC
DRC
When no other choice with approval of
HoM
Delta
Connection Kenya, Uganda, South
Limited
Sudan
Track Mark Limited
Kenya, Uganda, South
Sudan
East African Safari Air Kenya, South Sudan
F28 authorized only & TO BE USED
Express (EASL)
ONLY WHEN NO OTHER OPTION IS
THERE
Aircraft
Leasing Kenya, Uganda, South
Services (ALS)
Sudan
Eagle air
Uganda, South Sudan
Royal Daisy is black listed
TO BE USED ONLY WHEN NO OTHER
OPTION IS THERE
Nova Airline
Sudan
TO BE USED ONLY WHEN NO OTHER
OPTION IS THERE
Air Uganda
Uganda, South Sudan
African
Inland Kenya, South Sudan, DRC,
Mission (AIM Air)
Uganda
Air
Serv Uganda, DRC
International/Limited
Rwandair Express
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya
KinAvia
DRC
Blacklisted by EU
JetLink Express
Kenya, DRC, South Sudan
TO BE USED ONLY WHEN NO OTHER
OPTION IS THERE
TMK Air Commuter
DRC, Uganda, Burundi
Blacklisted by EU; TO BE USED ONLY
Sudan Airways
Busy Bee
Aviation
Sans
Frontieres
Air Kenya
East Africa Safari Air
CMC Aviation
Fly540.com
Precision Air
ALS
Aero
Contractors
(Nigeria)
Air Nigeria
Arik Air
Sudan
WHEN NO OTHER OPTION IS THERE
TO BE USED ONLY WHEN NO OTHER
OPTION IS THERE
Blacklisted by EU; only to use as last option
Kenya, Uganda, DRC
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Tanzania
Kenya
Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria
contracted by ECHO
Used by MSF and ICRC; Dest: Enugu,
Lagos, Port Harcourt, Accra
Used by MSF and ICRC; Dest: Abuja,
Benin, Owerri, Port Harcourt [International
Airport] , Sokoto ; Abidjan, Accra, Banjul,
Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala,
Libreville, Monrovia
Used by MSF and ICRC; Dest: Akure
Benin City, Calabar, Gombe,Enugu, Ilorin,
Kano, Katsina, Lagos, Maiduguri, Owerri,
Port Harcourt, Sokoto, Uyo, Warri, Yola;
London-Heathrow, New York, Accra,
Johanesburg, Cotonou, Monroviak,
Freetown, Banjul, Dakar
Dana Air
Nigeria
Air Blue
Pakistan
PIA
Pakistan
Shaheen
Pakistan
Used by MSF and ICRC; Dest: Abuja,
Enugu, Kano, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Uyo
Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Abu
Dabi, Muscat, Manchester; Cargo facilities.
Cheaper than PIA and fair services
Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, all
main cities in Pakistan, Middle East, Dehli,
Bangkok, Paris, London, New york,
Toronto; Cargo facilities, best one but little
bit more expensive than the others
company.
Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi,
Dubai, Abu Dabi, Doha, Muscat; Cargo
facilities, never tried.
3. Air companies blacklisted by the UN
The companies listed here have a record of being used for carrying the military agents,
ammunition, light weapons, supplying fuel for the military action, affiliated with
national/regional military powers, and/or having poor security record, flying aircrafts of unknown
origin and/or not airworthy, revoked licenses, etc in various countries. The main countries of
activity of these air carriers are mentioned below but it is possible that these carriers are active in
other countries.
The following companies should not be used:
Name
Badr Airlines
Azza Air
Transport
Trans-Attico
Juba Air
Cargo
Ababeel
Aviation
United
Arabian
Airlines
Hewa Bora
Airlines
UAE, Sudan,
DRC
UAE and
Sudan
UAE and
Sudan
UAE and
Sudan
UAE and
Sudan
DRC
Trans Air
Cargo
DRC
Gomair
DRC
Wimbi Dira
DRC
Enterprise
World
Airways
Bluebird
Aviation
DRC
Scibe Airlift
DRC/Somali
a
Ukraine,
Ukrainian
1
Affiliated
country/cou
ntries
UAE and
Sudan
DRC
Context
Source
Since 2006, UN Security Council Sanction
Committee investigations and reports have
documented repeated violations of the UN
sanctions on the Darfur region of Sudan by
Badr Airlines; poor safety record
Although participating in resource extraction
(oil), other forms of infrastructure
development and humanitarian aid delivery
markets, these commercial air cargo carriers
appear to be integrated into Sudanese armed
forces delivery networks.
SIPRI
report;1
UNSC report
S/2007/5842
Identified as transporting arms, military
equipment or soldiers into eastern DRC for
the armed forces of the DRC
Identified as transporting arms, military
equipment or soldiers into eastern DRC for
the armed forces of the DRC
Identified as transporting arms, military
equipment or soldiers into eastern DRC for
the armed forces of the DRC
Affiliated country/regional powers and in this
case current President of the DRC, Joseph
Kabila and Charles de Schrijver
Affiliated country/regional powers and in this
case Charles de Schrijver and his associates
SIPRI report
Bluebird Aviation of Somalia, part-owned by
Osman Hassan Ali Atto, a financier of the
Somali General Muhammad Farrah Aideed’s
United Somali Congress
Controlled by Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former
vice-president of the DRC
The company is owned by the Ukrainian
SIPRI report
Griffiths, Hugh and Bromley, Mark. Air Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows. May 2009.
http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP24.pdf
2
United Nations Security Council Report S/2007/584 from 3 October 2007
SIPRI report;
UNSC report
S/2007/584
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
Cargo
Airways
(UCA)
Angola,
Uganda,
DRC
Aviacon
Zitotrans
East Africa
Avient
Zimbabwe,
France
Air West
Sudan
Kosmas Air
Air Tomisko
Aerocom
Aerolift
Bright
Aviation
Services,
GST Aero
Jet Line
International
Various
Eastern
Europe, Iraq,
DRC,
possibly
other conflict
locations
Astral
Aviation
Liberia,
DRC,
Indonesia,
Mozambique,
Somalia, Sri
Lanka, Sudan
Same as
Astral
Aviation
African
International
Airlines
Air Navette
Avient
Airlines
Aviakom
East Wing
Compagnie
Ministry of Defence and has been involved in
the transportation of weapons, troops, and
ammunition for more than 10 years; one of
the key UN aviation providers in the delivery
of humanitarian goods and services
A transporter for state-controlled Russian
arms companies located in the Urals region
blacklisted by the US Gov-t which supply
weaponry and military equipment to African
states involved in regional conflicts; related to
Rosoboronexport, the Russian state arms
vendor, and other Russian arms manufacturers
In self-declared business relationship to
United Arabian Airways of Sudan;
recommended for an aviation ban by the UN
for reported involvement in repeated arms
embargo violation flights to Darfur
Part of Jama group which also includes Juba
Air Cargo and Trans-Attico;
Affiliated or used in the past by Tomislav
Damnjanovic, who was documented as
involved in transnational organized crime
networks have also penetrated licit markets.
All these air carriers are documented as
involved in humanitarian aid, peace support,
stability operations or defence logistics supply
chains operating on behalf of EU and NATO
member state government departments and
NGOs and are all named in UN and other
arms trafficking-related reports; Aerolift has
poor safety record.
transported weapons to Liberia;since 2003
participated in nine disaster relief and
humanitarian operations in, among other
places, the DRC, Indonesia, Mozambique,
Somalia, Sri Lanka and Sudan
Associated with Astral Aviation
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
SIPRI report
Russia, Chad
, Kazakhstan
Russia,
possibly
others
DRC
Aircraft with unknown record
Aircraft with unknown record
Certificate of airworthiness expired on 13
UNSC report
S/2007/584
UNSC report
S/2007/584
UN SC
Africaine
d’Aviation
(CAA)African Air
Services
Commuter
Certificate of airworthiness expired 8
December 2007, but was flying in and out of
Goma airport in July and August 2008.
Aircraft operated by CAA and African Air
Services
Commuter are also banned from flying within
the European Union
One of aircrafts was ever registered in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and the
registration listed belonged to another aircraft.
UN SC
report
S/2008/773
Performed nine flights (Kisangani, Kinshasa)
in September 2008 and six flights in October
2008 for FARDC; also used for military
supply to Zimbabwe + certificated of
airworthiness for one of its aircrafts expired
on 1 November 2008
DRC, Eastern Associated with Air Tomisco & registered in
Europe, SA
Bosnia and Herzegovina; transported military
equipment to FARDC, actually flew to
Kinshasa from Pretoria. The claim of the
authorities of the DRC has been contradicted
by the overflight and landing permission
records filed by ICAR Air to several countries
along the route Nis (Serbia)-Kinshasa
Libya,
Associated with Azza Air Transport; carried
Sudan, DRC ammunition and military equipment
UN SC
report
S/2008/773
DRC
DRC
Enterprise
World
Airways
(EWA)
DRC,
Zimbabwe
Faso Airways
4
report
S/2008/7733
Great Lakes
Business
Company
ICAR Air
3
January 2008, but flew in and out of Goma
airport in May and June 2008;
Compagnie
Aérienne des
Grands Lacs
Butembo
Airlines
Mango Mat
Airline
DRC
Doren
DRC
DRC
DRC
Listed for provision of assistance for illegal
armed groups & no longer hold aircraft
operating licences in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo.
The Gov-t of Burundi the cancellation
certificates of the registration of two
Antonov-12 aircraft, yet these planes has
continued to operate in the DRC while the
other has crashed; having transported arms
from Kisangani to Bukavu on 11 Sep. 2007.
Existing air operating certificate but on EU
blackist; Assets transferred to or from other
companies named in UN sanctions reports or
other open source reports on illicit,
clandestine or destabilizing arms transfers
United Nations Security Council Report S/2008/773 from 12 December 2008
United Nations Security Council Report S/2008/43 from 13 February 2008
UN SC
report
S/2008/773
UN SC
report
S/2008/773
UN SC
report
S/2008/434
UN SC
report
S/2008/43
UN SC
report
S/2008/43
http://www.si
pri.org/conte
nts/armstrad/
Air_Cargo_O
perators/Safe
_Air_Compa
Safe air
DRC
Existing air operating certificate but on EU
blackist; Assets transferred to or from other
companies named in UN sanctions reports or
other open source reports on illicit,
clandestine or destabilizing arms transfers
Service Air
DRC
Existing air operating certificate but on EU
blackist; Assets transferred to or from other
companies named in UN sanctions reports or
other open source reports on illicit,
clandestine or destabilizing arms transfers
Dairo Air
Services
ITAB
Filair
Uganda
ICRC list
DRC
DRC
Associated
Aviation
Nigeria
IRS Airlines
Nigeria
Kabo Air
Nigeria
Overland
Airways
Nigeria
748 Air
Services
Kenya/SSD
ICRC list
Banned by EU, crashed in Bandundu, DRC
25/08/2010
Website en construction
http://www.flyassociated.com/ Warning
reports about this company
at:http://www.ripoffreport.com/Airlines/Asso
ciated-Aviation/associated-aviation-limited-n85ca4.htm – not sure about the legitimacy of
it; blacklisted by MSF/ICRC
Had safety issues in the past, blacklisted by
MSF/ICRC
Operates flights to Dubai and Jeddah from
Kano; no particular negative info found but
blacklisted by MSF/ICRC
Operates domestic flights; no particular
negative info found but blacklisted by
MSF/ICRC
It is listed under Sierra Leone, not Kenya
(possibly error?),
banned by the EU, had 5 accidents between
1999 and 2009 in Lokki and South Sudan.
http://aviationsafety.net/database/operator/airline.php?var=6
903
ny.html
http://www.si
pri.org/conte
nts/armstrad/
Air_Cargo_O
perators/Dore
n_Air_Cargo.
html
http://www.si
pri.org/conte
nts/armstrad/
Air_Cargo_O
perators/Serv
ices_Air.html