Its international operations were suspended in September 2004, by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, but the airline still maintained scheduled regional and domestic services through its subsidiary East African Safari Air Express.

[1] In December 2010, East African Safari Air Express was ostensibly purchased by the parent company of another Kenyan airline Fly540 and was rebranded as Fly SAX.

[4] At the time of incorporation of Car Hire Services (Aviation) limited the shareholders were Mr. Kegode, M/s William Henry Boyd Parkinson, Pritam Singh Panesar and Samuel Gakuru.

[9] In October 1992 there was an ownership change and the Managing Director Aslam Khan left CHS Aviation to start his own charter company Aircraft Leasing Services Ltd.

[15] In or about the year 2001, East African Safari Air acquired all (99%) but one of the shares in Flying Jetpet (Kenya) limited, which was incorporated as Company No.

In 2003 East African Safari Air began operating international, and regional designated routes, local scheduled and other charter flights, using two Boeing 767-300ER (5Y-CCC & 5Y-QQQ)[16] and two F28 -4000.

Fast growth saw the airline run into cash flow problems and in late 2003 East African Safari Air started to search for investors.

On 27 August 2003 passengers narrowly escaped a crash when their plane made an emergency landing soon after take-off at Kisumu Airport after it hit a flock of birds.

The Nairobi-bound East African Safari Air Express plane Fokker F28-4000 landed safely but burst a tyre in the morning incident aircraft.

East African Safari Air entered into a joint venture agreement with British Midland International (bmi) airlines, who provided passenger handling services at London Heathrow Airport (LHR).

[19] At this stage however passenger traffic had steadily gained in numbers, and the forward bookings in mid-2004 showed that all the airline's flights would operate at strong load factors and have enough business to trade out its crushing debt.