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With eyes wide open to 800 aircraft: DAE
Firoz Tarapore-led DAE thinks narrowbodies are great, but the real money is made trading riskier assets.
Analysis: Is the ATR pendulum shifting to lessors?
Abelo and Avation flex muscles in ATR market with 39 firm orders, 10 options and 29 purchase rights between them
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Exclusive: Virgin Atlantic taps insurance market
24 May 2024 Airlines EuropeUK carrier diversifies financing sources
Indigo fourth quarter EBITDAR swells
24 May 2024 Airlines South AsiaLow-cost carrier will add a business class product.
China Southern reduces finance lease exposure
24 May 2024 Airlines Northeast AsiaPivots towards owning and operating leases.
Dynam Aviation grows managed portfolio
24 May 2024 Capital Northeast AsiaAims for 30-aircraft portfolio.
Vietjet Air to inject 20 aircraft into Qazaq Air
24 May 2024 Airlines Southeast AsiaVietjet will place 737 Max 8s with Qazaq following buyout
Kugelman joins Banc of California
23 May 2024 Risk North AmericaKugelman was at Pacific Western Bank since November 2013
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Back in buying mode: Avation CEO
Avation is bidding on narrowbody aircraft again, its chief executive Jeff Chatfield tells AFJ in Hong Kong.
Very solid growth but interest cost soaring
The days of cheap China money may be over, but CALC's CFO tells AFJ in an exclusive interview that it is going full steam ahead, expanding into new markets, and hoping to secure an investment-grade rating.
Values and LR trends: A350-900 benefiting from recovery
Geoff Hearn reviews the A350-900 market
Inequality among airlines
What do Airfinance Journal's Airline Financial Ratings say about the industry post-Covid? The distribution curve is a long way from “normal” and is becoming less so. We see that the current number of CCC “rated” airlines still well exceeds pre-Covid levels and the number of CC “rated airlines remain 50% higher than pre-Covid