Astral Aviation

Astral Aviation
IATA
8V
ICAO
ACP
Callsign
ASTRAL CARGO
Founded 2000
Hubs Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Fleet size 2 (+3 on order)
Headquarters Nairobi, Kenya
Key people Sanjeev S. Gadhia (Commercial Director)
Website http://www.astral-aviation.com/

Astral Aviation is a cargo airline based in Nairobi, Kenya. It was established in November 2000 and started operations in January 2001. It operates scheduled and non-scheduled/ad hoc cargo charters to regional destinations in Africa. Its main base is Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.[1]

Destinations

At June 2011, Astral Cargo showed the following scheduled destinations in their online timetable.

 Rwanda
 South Sudan
 Tanzania
 Uganda

Fleet

The Astral Aviation fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2015):[2][3]

Astral Aviation Fleet
Aircraft In fleet Orders Notes
Boeing 727-200F 1 leased from AeroSpace Consortium
Boeing 737-400F 2[4]
Boeing 747-400F 1 leased from Atlas Air
Fokker 27-500F 1 leased from AeroSpace Consortium
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34F 2 To be replaced by McDonnell Douglas MD-83
1 leased from Aircraft Traders Belgium
McDonnell Douglas MD-83F 3 Replace McDonnell Douglas DC-9
Total 5 5

References

  1. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 27 March 2007. p. 79.
  2. Amateur fleet list
  3. "Astral Aviation fleet". Astral Aviation. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  4. "Kenya's Astral Aviation due for two B737 freighters next month". ch-aviation.ch. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2015.

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