Blue Skies Consultants

Blue Skies Consultants is an aviation advisory firm. It advises airlines, lessors and investors on aircraft, engine and lease deals. It also offers asset management and investment management services. The site describes the company as a global aviation consultancy with a network of airlines, maintenance firms, lessors and financiers.

The company helps airlines with new aircraft orders, order delivery and the renegotiation or cancellation of existing orders. It also helps with lease origination, lease negotiation and lease end management. Engine technology selection, engine purchase and engine maintenance contracts are part of its work too.

The site says the team has negotiated OEM purchase agreements for more than 1,600 aircraft and 3,200 engines. It says those agreements had a list price of US$250 billion. It also says the team negotiated engine maintenance contracts with Rolls-Royce, CFM and Pratt and Whitney. Over the last few years, the site says, the team has generated upwards of US$5 billion in savings for its clients.

Other services listed on the site include MRO advisory, fleet and network planning, and aircraft sourcing and trading. MRO advisory covers market studies, MRO planning and set up, marketing of MRO services, and hiring of key MRO staff. Fleet and network planning looks at which aircraft suit a route network. The company also advises airlines on the choice of BFE and IFE equipment.

The site names two senior advisers. Dr Martin Kiran Rao has more than 25 years of aircraft sales experience at Airbus. He was executive vice president for strategy and marketing there. Jean-Francois Laval spent more than 33 years in aircraft sales, including as Airbus senior vice president of sales for Asia. Both later worked at Airborne Capital, an asset manager in Ireland, until 2022.

The site cites recent work with airlines. These include a 2024 deal for 45 787 aircraft with GE engines at Thai Airways and a 2024 order for 20 A330-900 aircraft at Vietjet. Clients can contact the company through a form on the website.