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
Ishka Insights subscribers can now download past data sheets and associated datasets from one convenient place: the Insights Data Library. more
13/05/2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in the past week has precipitated a swirl of retaliatory measures from around the globe, many of which have a devastating significance for aviation. more
01/03/2022
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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
28/02/2022
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
Ishka estimates that as of 24th February 2022 governments have introduced $207 billion in assistance measures for air carriers globally, including sectoral package and airline-specific bailouts. more
24/02/2022
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
Political support has formed in Indonesia around flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, with most parties agreeing to the formation of a working committee to support the airline's rescue. more
18/02/2022
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
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
Ishka reviews two innovative sustainability-linked transactions by SocGen and Crianza Aviation, as well as the first sustainable aviation fund by Swedish asset manager Rockton. more
15/02/2022
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
Public SAF offtake deals tracked by ICAO last year amounted to around seven times the volumes signed off in preceding years combined. more
10/02/2022
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
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
31/01/2022
Pandemic-related state aid is still being provided to airlines in 2022, with $0.23 billion in confirmed measures since the start of the year and $2.12 billion since mid-December 2021. more
27/01/2022
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
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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