Today’s aviation businesses face diversified challenges. The key to successfully navigating these challenges can be found in well-designed, fact-based strategies developed through a comprehensive analysis of existing and future industry trends and a realistic understanding of all competitive possibilities.

KKC works with clients to create achievable goals and the strategies to realize them while avoiding the dangers of short-term changes in direction. We combine our unique understanding of industry trends with a rigorous, reality-oriented analysis of each individual client situation, prioritize the client’s needs and provide support with strategic plan implementation.

Our strategies are designed to address the challenges in today’s aviation industry as well as those of the future. We address strategic analysis by respecting the validity of historical approaches without becoming constrained by their precedents. KKC strategies insure that our clients don’t find themselves taken by surprise due to shifts in industry direction. Services include:

• Trend Forecasting
• Alliance Analysis
• Competitive Challenge Assessment & Response
• Brand Positioning
• Corporate Goal Determination
• Market Opportunity Assessment
• Customer Needs & Preferences Assessment
• Aircraft / Equipment / Facility Suitability & Replacement Analysis
• Passenger, Cargo, & MRO Revenue Management Modeling & Analysis
• MRO-Oriented Future Market / Future Client Forecasting
• Expert Witness Testimony & Litigation Support
  

AVIATION FINANCE

By integrating the aspects of aviation strategy, financial and operational consulting under one umbrella, KKC is able to provide its clients with solutions that take advantage of synergies between these key organizational elements.

KKC has extensive experience in all stages of capital sourcing, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy workouts, as well as aircraft and equipment financing, acquisition and disposition. KKC actively cultivates an international network of investors and lenders who are comfortable with the risks of aviation ventures, as well as finance specialists and attorneys who can be called upon to fulfill our client’s needs. Services include:

• Business Plan Preparation & Evaluation
• Due Diligence Assessments
• Capital Needs Analysis
• Capital Sourcing & Investor Relationship Management
• Issues Analysis
• Credit Risk Assessment
• Pre- & Post-Bankruptcy Workout / Creditor Liaison
• Merger & Acquisition Consulting
• Aircraft, Engine & Inventory Appraisal
• Aircraft, Engine & Inventory Acquisition / Disposition Representation
• Negotiation of Contracts & Leases
  
  

OPERATIONAL SERVICES

KKC’s professionals bring decades of experience in all aspects of airline and corporate flight operations, including executive administration, operational management and maintenance management. KKC is able to provide clients operations support that ranges from outsourced air carrier certification to hands-on management of flight operations. Our operational services work in conjunction with our expert strategic analysis to fulfill our clients’ objectives.

We also offer an innovative set of services designed for operators of transport and corporate aircraft. In addition to operational functionality and safety compliance audits, we provide future operational needs analyses and aircraft acquisition and disposition management. Services include:

• FAA / DOT Certificate Compliance & Certification (FAR 119, 121, 135, 145)
• U.S. Military Scheduled & Charter Air Carrier Compliance
• Operational Safety Compliance Audit programs
• Negotiation & Management of Code-share, Interline or JV Agreements
• Negotiation & Relationship Management with Outsourced Service Providers
  
  

AIRPORT / COMMUNITY SERVICES

Today’s rapid growth in air travel has created a unique challenge for municipal aviation authorities throughout the world. Many municipalities find themselves with the inability to attract or retain air service of the type or frequency that is preferable to the market, and it often falls to aviation authorities or political entities to solve this problem. KKC assists by allowing its clients to understand the situation from the air carrier’s point of view, and by developing creative solutions at the local level in order to attain or maintain quality air service. Services include:

• Airport / Air Carrier Relationship Management
• Feasibility Studies
• Passenger, Cargo and MRO Facility Recruitment
• Quality of Service Indexing & Market Stimulation Analysis
  

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

KKC is pleased to provide a broadened level of client service in aircraft, engine and parts appraisal, off-site maintenance representation and portfolio management through an association with one of the industry leaders in these specialized areas.

By leveraging relationships to our clients’ benefit, they can access a Miami-based firm whose personnel bring more than sixty years of experience to the technical and asset management specialties. These technical personnel are certified by the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT). Services include:

• Aircraft, Engine & Parts appraisal
• Maintenance Records Management & Audit
• Portfolio Management & Monitoring
• Aircraft Physical Status Surveys
• Aircraft Certification / Re-registration
• On-site Maintenance Representation
• Asset Value Tax Letters