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
Ishka’s Pricing Benchmark investigates lease rates and prices for eight-year-old A320ceos and 737NGs. more
06/05/2022
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates
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
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
Competition in the sale/leaseback market continues driving down lease rate factors, with airlines able to request higher prices for encumbered Airbus A320neos and Boeing 737 MAX 8s, according to research by Ishka’s Aircraft Pricing Benchmark. more
04/03/2022
Unlevered asset returns for new-tech narrowbody and widebody aircraft appear to have tightened over the last nine months, according to the latest aircraft asset managers survey conducted by Ishka. more
16/02/2022
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
14/02/2022
The waiting times for two of the most popular A330 P2F (passenger to freighter) conversion programmes has decreased by six months from over five years in November 2021 to around four-and-a-half years today. more
26/01/2022
The narrowbody engine leasing market is expecting a sustained recovery in 2022 after promising gains in the second half of last year for both engine lease rates and values. more
20/01/2022
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates
The number of aircraft in storage has fallen by almost 41% over the last nine months, according to Ishka research, as airlines react to the recovery in passenger demand, particularly in domestic markets. more
19/01/2022
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Aircraft Finance Market
New-technology widebodies that were built but not delivered over the past three years have recently been placed with newly-established airlines and carriers forced into fleet rejigs by the pandemic. more
13/01/2022
Ishka’s Pricing Benchmark Q3 2021 data charts lease rates and prices for eight-year-old and 16-aircraft old A320ceos and 737-800s. more
07/01/2022
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Aircraft Finance Market
Ishka is taking a break over the Christmas holiday period. We wish to thank all of our readers for their support during 2021 which has been another extraordinary year as the industry adapts to the continued shocks of the pandemic and slowly recovers. Normal Insights service will resume in January. more
23/12/2021
Sale/leaseback lease rate factors for new Airbus A220s delivering to Air France and airBaltic have fallen in the final round of bidding, Ishka understands. more
14/12/2021
Thomas Garbaccio FTAI Aviation President & chief commercial officer explains how the aftermarket engine lessor plans to leverage its scale and MRO partnerships to cut costs for customers. more
03/12/2021
New operating leases for Boeing 737 NGs and Airbus A320ceos are returning to fixed lease rates, rather than power-by-the-hour (PBH) terms, according to third-party aircraft remarketers and lessors. more
23/11/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Aircraft Finance Market
A competitive sale/leaseback market (SLB) is both driving up prices for new A320neos and 737 MAXs as well as depressing lease rates, according to Ishka’s Aircraft Pricing Benchmark (APB) research. more
11/11/2021
Ishka research finds that the number of advertised older widebodies has fallen by 24% in October. more
09/11/2021
Boeing is on track to clear its inventory of ‘built but not delivered’ 737 MAXs, with many of the aircraft being placed with US major airlines, believed to be at discounted prices. more
21/10/2021
Lessors state that a wave of new aviation lenders - many of which were established in the last 18 months and are backed by private equity and money managers - have helped reduce the cost of financing for acquiring aircraft. more
28/09/2021
Aircraft investor interest in the Airbus A220-300 is intensifying with many players keen to acquire aircraft, according to Ishka’s Pricing Benchmark. more
24/09/2021
Regional aircraft are half as likely to be operated by airlines benefitting from state support compared to larger aircraft, an analysis based on Ishka’s state aid tally shows. more
10/09/2021
ATR prices are being depressed by an increasing supply of aircraft coming into the market from distressed airlines, according to Ishka’s Pricing Benchmark team. more
08/09/2021
Freighter conversion slots are in such high demand that some investors could face up to a four-year wait for a conversion slot for some of the most popular conversion programmes for troubled assets such as the A330. more
02/09/2021
Mid-teenage narrowbodies are continuing to see muted demand by new operators, with the market blaming competitive pricing on younger vintages for a decline in interest for 16-year-old classics. more
27/08/2021
German MRO Lufthansa Technik has been talking to potential customers about a new A330 cargo conversion solution that would cost a fraction of a regular P2F conversion. more
10/08/2021
This is the first edition of Ishka’s aircraft asset managers report, which tracks recent updates, market moves, and fleet changes of the active aircraft asset managers in the industry. more
28/07/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates
A slow resumption of international flights has meant some carriers have taken a step back from auxiliary freighters or preighters, but some ACMIs are finding a gap in this market. more
13/07/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Investor Education
The freighter conversion market has seen a huge uptick in demand due to the Covid pandemic. Passenger airlines have been forced to downsize fleets, increasing passenger aircraft availability, and affordability, for freighter conversion. more
12/07/2021
Young, new technology narrowbody aircraft have seen slight improvements in market value sentiment since the first quarter of the year. more
30/06/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
After suffering a period of value realignment since the onset of the pandemic several 20-year-old aircraft types now appear to be reaching a value “floor” where further discounts are unlikely. more
09/06/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
A330 investors are fighting back. Last month, 15 firms launched a joint PR campaign to “raise awareness of the unique abilities" of the type in the hope of winning over existing and potential new operators. more
08/06/2021
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Airlines and lessors have committed (or recommitted) to buying 258 737 MAX aircraft so far in 2021 possibly including, as Ishka understands, some remarketed white-tail from Boeing’s inventory of 400+ undelivered MAXs. more
27/05/2021
Investors are testing a number of options for used Boeing 777-300ERs as remarketers warn that demand for the large passenger aircraft remains “extremely low” to “non-existent”. more
18/05/2021
This is a regular series from 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
10/05/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
More airlines are likely to go bust or enter a formal court-led restructuring process in the next 12 months warned panellists speaking at the Ishka+ Investing in Aviation Finance: Europe conference as airlines continue to suffer depressed revenues due to the Covid-19 pandemic. more
07/05/2021
Lease rates for older single-aisle aircraft (eight-year and 16-year-old vintages) have continued to drop since January 2020 – according to Ishka Pricing Benchmark research. more
30/04/2021
Aircraft current market values (CMV) and market lease rates (MLR) for a mixture of several 10-year-old, five-year-old and new build widebody aircraft types have continued to fall due to overcapacity in the market, according to industry-leading valuations experts speaking at Ishka’s MENA briefing. more
19/04/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
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
13/04/2021
Commercial claims related to aviation at the London Commercial Court are up approximately 50% year-on-year since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ishka's analysis finds. more
08/04/2021
A regular series from 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
31/03/2021
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
German asset manager Doric has been granted more time by lenders on repayments for one of its funds to help close the sale of an A330 on lease to Air Mauritius, reducing the fund’s potential risk of bankruptcy. more
23/03/2021
Pakistan International Airlines has received 128 leased aircraft offers after putting out a tender for eight dry-leased narrowbodies, highlighting competition between lessors to remarket aircraft. more
17/03/2021
Regional aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital’s (NAC) founder and former chairman Martin Moller is looking at ways to potentially invest in the firm as the company faces a further potential restructuring. more
16/03/2021
A regular series from 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
15/03/2021
A regular series from 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
03/03/2021
A ‘disappearing’ bank-to-bank syndication market will curb new warehouse financings and aviation bank debt. more
17/02/2021
A regular series from 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
15/02/2021
Ishka’s unencumbered current markets values (CMVs) for 2000 vintage aircraft have fallen roughly 34% across a sample of 11 common aircraft types since January 2020, and a related dop of 37% in current market lease rates (CMLR). more
07/02/2021