Tanzania has the best health service delivery system, and best Hospitals in this region, yet it has managed to buy 8 brand new planes.
KQ has leased planes which are twenty years old, not true that leased companies enjoy economy of scale because they don't but many planes once, they just order according to their demand, or to replace one or two planes.
The bottom line is that, even if leasing companies get these planes free of charge, still they will lease them at market price because their aim is to maximize profit. Dangote his main business is cement production not transportation, but he bought about 600 semi trailers to carry cement from his plant to distributors in order to avoid leasing.
KQ only leases brand new planes. Dreamliners.
AerCap, the largest leasing company with over 1500 planes, currently has a pending order of 30 Boeing 787s, and many more from Airbus. This is actually one of their smallest order book. They grew from 1100 planes to 1500 in about 3 years.
So get out of here with your ''they don't buy many planes once'' nonsense.
Also, the average age of their planes is 7.7 years.
You have a very stupid logic. If Dangote can afford 600 trucks at a time, then he has created a transport company bigger than most. Why would someone with so much money take it elsewhere?
Tanzania on the other hand is a poor 4th world country that requires to divert money from healthcare to buy one plane at a time.
If you have the capital to buy 600 planes, then do it.
Big airlines and those funded by oil money don't lease as often as smaller ones. But when they make an aircraft order, they buy more than 100 planes in a go.
They are already bigger than the leasing companies.
Finally, Tanzania's healthcare is comparable to Burundi and South Sudan. Lowest doctor to population ratio, lowest life expectancy, highest child mortality.