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
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
in Aircraft Asset Profiles , Lessors and Lease Rates
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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Ishka’s data sheet provides a new quarterly summary of recent sale/leaseback transactions and key metrics. more
11/03/2022
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
Lessor returns could be squeezed in the short-term, confide sources if, as is widely expected, the US Federal Reserve increases interest rates later this month. more
03/03/2022
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Investor Education , Aircraft Finance Market
Publicly-listed Canadian regional aircraft lessor Chorus Aviation Inc. (Chorus) is set to acquire British-based lessor Falko Regional Aircraft Limited (Falko) in an $855 million transaction agreed on 27th February 2022, creating the second-largest regional aircraft lessor by fleet count. more
02/03/2022
Two lessors issued $2.7 billion in unsecured bonds in the first six weeks of the year, the slowest start to a year in issuances since 2018. Airline issuances QTD are $6 billion. more
25/02/2022
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Airline Profiles , Aircraft Finance Market
Air Lease Corporation (ALC) sees “strong momentum” to replace older widebody aircraft with “extremely attractive” new widebody aircraft amid rising fuel costs, but the lessor is more cautious about small electric aircraft following a series of eVTOL lessor orders. more
23/02/2022
JP Lease continues to be locked in a legal battle with investment fund and start-up lessor FitzWalter Capital, over the planned sale of two Airbus A350s on lease to Vietnam Airlines via two separate JOLs arranged by JP Lease. more
22/02/2022
Lessors confide that the sale/leaseback (SLB) market is picking up with several request-for-proposals (RFPs) set to be issued this month and throughout Q1, after a “slow January” saw carriers issue relatively few RFPs for financing of new aircraft deliveries. more
17/02/2022
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 intra-lessor aircraft trading market has bounced back after being disrupted by the pandemic but aircraft lessors appear reluctant to include 737 MAXs in many of the recent portfolios offered for sale. more
12/02/2022
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
A reminder that the submissions deadline for Ishka Deal of the Year Awards submissions is one week away on the 11th February 2022. more
03/02/2022
Once a household name in regional aircraft leasing, AeroCentury is now (after an eventful Chapter 11 process) blending into its Silicon Valley tech surroundings under new Chinese investors. more
01/02/2022
Ishka's Asset Managers data sheet provides a summary of recent news, activity and metrics of aircraft asset managers in Q4 2021. more
28/01/2022
Trade association Aircraft Leasing Ireland (ALI) launched the sector's first joint ESG narrative last week, a major milestone for an industry that until now had few unified voices at the leadership level. more
24/01/2022
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
Ishka is now accepting submissions for its Deal of the Year Awards. The Ishka Deal of the Year Awards celebrate the best closed aircraft finance deals of 2021. more
10/01/2022
Aircraft lessors tracked by Ishka issued $25.17 billion in unsecured capital markets debt during the fourth quarter of the year rounding off $52.53 billion raised across 2021 more
06/01/2022
In this week’s Restructuring Watch report, Ishka provides updates on airlines from Ishka’s Restructuring list and one lessor – Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC). more
05/01/2022
Anne-Bart Tieleman, the CEO of regional aircraft lessor TrueNoord, states that the firm is “well- positioned” to potentially buy any aircraft that may emanate from rival lessor NAC’s restructuring process. more
04/01/2022
Engine Lease Finance (ELF) has seen an improvement in engine demand in the past three or four months, but uncertainty sparked by the new Omicron variant is “taking a little bit of the optimism out of that momentum,” says ELF President & CEO Tom Barrett. more
03/01/2022
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
20/12/2021
Remarketers warn some airlines might seek to extend power-by-the-hour (PBH) rental agreements by a further three or four months to help them deal with uncertainty and reduced cash flows caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant. more
16/12/2021
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
Ishka has identified 12 investments by eight aircraft lessors, asset managers, or their parent companies over the past 12 months, with e-VTOLs, hydrogen, and SAF among the targeted activities. more
10/12/2021
Ali Ben Lmadani, CEO of Ireland-based asset manager ABL Aviation, discusses the newly established joint venture (JV) with Ellington Management Group to acquire aircraft on behalf of a larger pool of investors. more
09/12/2021
After a remarkable resurgence in the aircraft ABS market this year Ishka offers several predictions for new aircraft ABS issuances in 2022. more
08/12/2021
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
Boeing 737-800 converted freighter lease rates are falling, driven by an increasing number of lessors with P2F 737-800s looking to place the aircraft, sources tell Ishka.. more
30/11/2021
Lessors have issued nearly $3.5 billion in unsecured debt in the first six weeks of the fourth quarter in addition to AerCap’s record $21 billion issuances. Airline issuances QTD are $5.36 billion. more
24/11/2021
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Airline Profiles , Aircraft Finance Market
Lessor CEOs expressed “confidence” in current-tech single-aisle aircraft retaining value at the ISTAT Americas conference in Austin earlier this week. Ishka provides a summary of the key talking points. more
18/11/2021
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
Ishka reviews some of the key market concerns raised by AerCap, Aircastle and Air Lease Corporation (ALC) in their recent earnings calls, including rent deferral requests, aircraft values and lease rates and the secondary market. more
15/11/2021
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
AerCap ended its last pre-GECAS merger quarter with some of its strongest results to date, including $434 million of net income. more
12/11/2021
ALC CEO John Plueger stated in the lessor’s Q3 2021 earnings call that single-aisle lease rates are “rising” due to “strong” demand for narrowbody aircraft and a lack of supply. The lessor chief stated demand is particularly high for Airbus A320neos and A321neos, with lease rates “above pre-pandemic levels.” more
08/11/2021
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