A panel of aircraft lessor CEOs at the ISTAT EMEA conference last week predicted that it may take three to four years for the aircraft ABS market to fully return to the record issuance volumes seen in the last five years. more
29/09/2022
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Lessors & Asset managers , Capital Markets
Leasing platforms have raised $12.6 billion through new equity funds and joint ventures (JV) since 2021 based on Ishka’s research of 17 equity fundraising projects. more
29/08/2022
Ishka reviews some of the key market concerns raised by AerCap, Air Lease Corporation (ALC), Aircastle, Chorus Aviation, and Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors (FTAI Aviation) in their recent earnings calls. more
16/08/2022
AerCap is seeing an increased demand for lease extensions and higher lease rates as OEM delays constrain the supply of new aircraft, the lessor said during its Q2 2022 earnings call. more
12/08/2022
Air Lease Corporation (ALC) is seeing a “higher pace” of lease extensions “well in advance” of lease expirations for both narrowbody and widebody aircraft due to rising interest rates. more
05/08/2022
Ishka's asset managers datasheet provides a summary of recent news, activity and metrics of aircraft asset managers in Q2 2022. more
29/07/2022
The Fed raised rates by a further 0.75 percentage points yesterday. Leasing sources say aircraft buyers are walking away from secondary market acquisitions negotiated months in advance as rising financing costs overturn return assumptions. more
27/07/2022
Ishka notes that 10 new leasing platforms have been established since 2020, including eight during the pandemic, and four in the past two months. more
21/07/2022
Aircraft lessors tracked by Ishka issued a mere $1.45 billion in unsecured capital markets debt during the second quarter of the year, less than half of the $3.2 billion issued during Q1 2022. more
19/07/2022
Unlevered returns for new-technology aircraft sale/leasebacks have suffered a significant drop from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, according to Ishka research, after briefly spiking during the pandemic. more
14/07/2022
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Lessors & Asset managers , Aviation Banks and Lenders
Asset manager Strategic Value Partners, LLC and its affiliates (SVPGlobal), have announced that funds managed by SVPGlobal have acquired full ownership of London- headquartered aircraft asset manager Deucalion Aviation Limited (Deucalion) from EnTrust Global (EnTrust). more
09/07/2022
Ishka speaks to Abelo CEO Stephen Gorman on what Elix Aviation’s merger with veteran management team ADARE Aviation Capital means for Elix’s platform and its investment priorities. more
27/06/2022
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
20/06/2022
Aircraft lessor Carlyle Aviation Management Limited (Carlyle) has priced a $522.5 million aircraft ABS – the first aircraft ABS to price this year more
15/06/2022
Rising interest rate swap costs and an ongoing freeze in the aircraft ABS market are slowing the trading of leased aircraft, say lessors. more
10/06/2022
This is the 76th 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
06/06/2022
Ishka understands that three airlines have successfully agreed short sale/leasebacks (SLBs) with a lease length of eight years for new deliveries of new-tech narrowbodies and a turboprop compared to the typical lease term of ten-to-12 years. more
31/05/2022
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
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This is the 75th 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
23/05/2022
Aircraft lessors are concerned that insurers and reinsurers may decline to offer contingency coverage for countries deemed politically risky, including China, following billions of dollars in lodged claims by lessors for aircraft trapped in Russia. more
20/05/2022
in Lessors and Lease Rates , Aircraft Finance Market
AerCap swung to a net loss of $2 billion in the first quarter after registering $2.7 billion in costs relating to the Ukraine Conflict, dampening an otherwise strong quarter propelled by a “positive demand environment.” more
19/05/2022
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
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
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