Aélia Assurances

Aélia Assurances is an aviation insurance broker with offices in Geneva, Switzerland, and Levallois Perret, France. The group has more than 25 years of experience. It places cover for airliners, business jets, helicopters and aviation operations.

The group reports more than 1,700 insured aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotary. It insures more than 110 air operator certificate holders, including charter, scheduled, governmental and para-governmental operators. It also covers more than 700 turbine helicopters. It says that more than 15 percent of the European jets it insures are placed with it, and it has five entities worldwide.

The broker handles all types of aeronautical risk. This ranges from turboprops to wide-body airliners and helicopters. Its work extends to regular airline flying and to governmental, offshore, firefighting, medevac, VIP transport, cargo and charter flights.

Its core products include aircraft risk cover, such as combined single limit and hull all risks. Aélia also offers enhanced clauses and services, which give technical and legal advice to extend and improve cover. For ground businesses it arranges product and hangar liability cover for MRO companies and for FBOs and handlers. It also offers crew and passenger cover, which protects people against the results of an accident.

Other covers include medical evacuation assistance, goods transport for aircraft and spares, airside operation and airport liability. The group also runs a consulting service. It gives operational audits and advice on aeronautical materials. Its goal is long-term partnerships with operators.

The group is approved by Lloyd's Brussels and acts as an Approved Representative of Lloyd's UK. This lets it serve clients across Europe and the UK. Its Swiss office is listed with FINMA, and its French office is listed with ORIAS.

Its team includes people from both the air transport and insurance industries. The company says that, besides email, it values direct contact by phone or a face-to-face meeting.

Services

• Aircraft risks insurance
• Enhanced clauses and services
• Product and hangar liability
• Crew and passenger cover
• Medical evacuation assistance cover
• Goods transport cover
• Airport liability
• Airside operation cover
• Aeronautical consulting
• Operational audits