Trusted, expert assessment of the latest industry trends from the respected Ishka team, including regional analysis, airlines, lessors and critical emerging issues.
Aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation Capital announced it plans to acquire Dublin-based rival Goshawk Aviation which, if regulatory approval is obtained, will make it the second-largest aircraft lessor by number of aircraft. more
17/05/2022
Airline operations in Asia Pacific and China were particularly impacted in 2021, which resulted in sizable losses in the region. more
16/05/2022
Ishka Insights subscribers can now download past data sheets and associated datasets from one convenient place: the Insights Data Library. more
13/05/2022
LATAM has successfully negotiated with several of its dissenting creditors, bringing its closer to obtaining court approval of its restructuring. more
12/05/2022
Lease rates for 16-year-old Airbus A320ceos continued to see a decline during Q1 2022 amid high availability for the type, according to contributors to Ishka’s Aircraft Pricing Benchmark report. more
11/05/2022
Air Lease Corporation (ALC) reported a $469 million loss for the quarter after it wrote off $802 million in relation to its owned and managed fleet located in Russia. more
10/05/2022
This is the 74th in a series of supplements to Ishka’s ‘Transaction Economics’ service. It delivers ‘the Ishka View’ on events that have a bearing on the near-term performance of aircraft values, lease rates, and the market dynamics that matter, under today’s market environment. more
09/05/2022
Ishka’s Pricing Benchmark investigates lease rates and prices for eight-year-old A320ceos and 737NGs. more
06/05/2022
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The second edition of the Ishka View Extra: ESG and Sustainable Aviation examines developments during March, April, and early May. more
05/05/2022
Net aircraft orders for the two largest OEMs have begun to recover for the first time since the onset of the pandemic as passenger demand improves and travel restrictions ease. more
04/05/2022
This week Ishka reviews the performance of the main airlines serving the southern part of the Latin American region, including the major aviation markets in Brazil and Chile. more
03/05/2022
Lessors and asset managers have gone from zero to over 1,225 e-VTOL commitments in under 12 months, marking the incursion of aircraft leasing into a new domain - but their decarbonisation role may be limited. more
29/04/2022
Lessors are bracing themselves for legal battle over insurance claims for aircraft trapped in Russia, with some having already submitted claims, explain several sources to Ishka. more
28/04/2022
Aircraft lessors tracked by Ishka issued a modest $3.2 billion in unsecured capital markets debt during Q1 2022, a steep decline from Q4 2021. more
27/04/2022
Regional aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) is set to emerge from Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States by the end of May after a bankruptcy court approved its restructuring plan on 19th April. more
26/04/2022
This is the 73rd in a series of supplements to Ishka’s ‘Transaction Economics’ service. It delivers ‘the Ishka View’ on events that have a bearing on the near-term performance of aircraft values, lease rates, and the market dynamics that matter, under today’s market environment. more
25/04/2022
Airline unsecured bond issuances outside of China slowed down during the first quarter of the year in the wake of rising inflation, monetary tightening, and the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. more
22/04/2022
Older widebodies (WB) are trading at significantly depressed prices, according to contributors to Ishka’s Aircraft Pricing Benchmark, but lessors believe values will recover. Ishka's Pricing Benchmark team examines aircraft values and leases rates for new A350s and eight-year-old and 16-year old A330-300s. more
21/04/2022
Ishka's asset managers datasheet provides a summary of recent news, activity and metrics of aircraft asset managers in Q1 2022. This datasheet is the third of Ishka’s new asset managers quarterly coverage. more
20/04/2022
This report is the seventy-fifth in a series of supplements to Ishka’s Airline Credit Profiles (ACP) subscription-based service. It delivers ‘The Ishka View’ on the near-term performance of airlines under today’s extraordinary market circumstances. more
19/04/2022
Aircraft impairments recorded by 11 lessors analysed by Ishka totalled $738 million in the 2021 financial reporting period, around half of the $1.5 billion recorded by the same lessors in 2020. more
14/04/2022
In this third edition of Ishka’s ESG data sheet, Ishka examines the latest EU Taxonomy technical screening criteria (TSC) proposal for air transport including aircraft leasing, airlines, and manufacturers. more
13/04/2022
Several European aviation bankers confirm to Ishka that their funding costs increased in the first quarter of 2022 in the wake of rising interest rates and general market volatility in the capital markets following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. more
12/04/2022
This is a series of supplements to Ishka’s ‘Transaction Economics’ service. It delivers ‘the Ishka View’ on events that have a bearing on the near-term performance of aircraft values, lease rates, and the market dynamics that matter, under today’s market environment. more
11/04/2022
Aeromexico emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy process on 17th March 2022, after 20 months of financial restructuring. Elsewhere, LATAM continues to be at odds with some of its unsecured creditors. more
08/04/2022
This is the 54th updated summary of airline state aid during the Covid-19 crisis. Ishka estimates that as of 7th April 2022 governments have introduced $208.95 billion in assistance measures for air carriers globally, including sectoral package and airline-specific bailouts. more
07/04/2022
Ishka summarises some of the key takeaways from its first ESG-dedicated conference held last week in London, as well as ESG concerns by investors and lenders during the prior investor-focused event. more
06/04/2022
Lessors and asset managers confide that the Russian-Ukrainian war has prompted internal credit committees to “reassess all emerging market risk”, contrary to efforts by some large leasing entities to downplay the effects of the Russian invasion. more
05/04/2022
This report is an excerpt from Ishka’s Airline Credit Profiles (ACP) subscription-based service. It delivers ‘The Ishka View’ on the near-term performance of airlines under today’s extraordinary market circumstances. more
04/04/2022
AerCap is expecting a “timing mismatch” between an impairment on assets that remain in Russia (and possibly some removed from Russia) and recoveries from related insurance claims worth $3.5 billion. more
01/04/2022
In a guest report, Niamh Tobin, a director at EY, explains when aircraft lessors may need to report aircraft impairments under IFRS and US GAAP. more
31/03/2022
High-level EU aviation stakeholders at a conference in Brussels this week shared that growing attention is being paid to the non-CO2 effects of aviation, which until now have taken a backseat in environmental policies for the sector. more
30/03/2022
From sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) prices to capacity developments, Ishka provides a summary of some of the points covered in its latest SAF webinar with Argus Media. more
29/03/2022
Aircraft remarketers talking to Ishka state that the costs associated with leased aircraft trapped in Russia due to Western sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine could take years to resolve. more
29/03/2022
This is the 71st in a series of supplements to Ishka’s ‘Transaction Economics’ service. It delivers ‘the Ishka View’ on events that have a bearing on the near-term performance of aircraft values, lease rates, and the market dynamics that matter, under today’s market environment. more
28/03/2022
New propulsion technologies in development today could mean that SAF’s heyday is concentrated in a 15 to 30-year regulatory-driven window, new modelling by KPMG Ireland suggests. more
25/03/2022
Impact, a new aviation finance association dedicated to achieving Net Zero CO2 emissions by 2050, has announced its founding board and president as it formally launches this week. more
24/03/2022
The continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the aircraft ABS market to freeze as investors and ABS sponsors digest how the crisis will impact the aircraft leasing sector. more
23/03/2022
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is shaping up to be one of the biggest shocks to the airline industry since the start of the pandemic, and it puts question marks over the short and medium-term continuity of airlines in countries that are party to the conflict. Ishka identifies the airlines likely to be most severely impacted. more
22/03/2022
This report is an excerpt from Ishka’s Airline Credit Profiles (ACP) subscription-based service. It delivers ‘The Ishka View’ on the near-term performance of airlines under today’s extraordinary market circumstances. more
21/03/2022
Ishka examines aviation insurance policies and reflects on the potential outcomes for aircraft lessors exposed to Russian airlines following the Ukraine invasion. more
18/03/2022
This is the first in a series of special supplements delivering ‘The Ishka View’ on aviation ‘Environmental, Social, Governance’ (ESG) and other sustainability developments. more
17/03/2022
The Covid-19 pandemic forced the grounding of thousands of aircraft, in many cases to never be operated again. Two years on from the beginning of global Covid-19 travel restrictions, Ishka takes a look at the currently parked fleet and assesses what proportion of these aircraft will return to revenue service. more
16/03/2022
In this second edition of Ishka’s ESG data sheet, we expand our coverage to include all publicly-announced airline or aircraft-related green and sustainability-linked financings to date. more
15/03/2022
Ishka looks at some of the key discussion topics from the ISTAT Americas 2022 conference last week, including the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a competitive sale/leaseback market, rising interest rates and ESG. more
14/03/2022
This is a series of supplements to Ishka’s ‘Transaction Economics’ service. It delivers ‘the Ishka View’ on events that have a bearing on the near-term performance of aircraft values and lease rates. more
14/03/2022
Ishka’s data sheet provides a new quarterly summary of recent sale/leaseback transactions and key metrics. more
11/03/2022
Ishka provides updates on airlines from Ishka’s Restructuring list including Thai Airways' return to profitability in 2021, and fleet updates for Thai and LATAM. more
10/03/2022
A panel of CEOs representing some of the world’s largest aircraft lessors tackled some of the industry’s most pressing topics at the ISTAT Americas conference in San Diego. more
09/03/2022
Ishka reviews some of the key market concerns raised by Aircastle, Air Lease Corporation (ALC), ALAFCO, and Avation in their recent earnings calls. more
08/03/2022