CAFE

CAFE came about from our interest in aviation as a key enabler of modern economies, as comprehensively explained in MIT's Analysis of the Interaction between Air Transportation and Economic Activity: A Worldwide Perspective and Oxford Economics' Aviation: The Real World Wide Web... Asked to speak on innovative financing strategies for African aviation at the Leadership Conference in Gaborone in August 2010, we decided to float the CAFE concept publicly but not before asking the likes of Girma Wake, then CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Titus Naikuni, CEO of Kenya Airways and Chris Smyth, then Acting CEO of South African Airways, and several former senior colleagues (from GPA of old) for their thoughts. These senior lights and several other airline CEOs and senior management endorsed the CAFE concept with so little equivocation that it seemed irrational not to pursue it.

Also known as: COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT FINANCE ENTITY