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Transportation Partners issues first Coface guaranteed bond transaction financing ATRs

Transportation Partners Pte. Ltd (“Transportation Partners”), BNP Paribas and ATR are pleased to announce the successful closing of USD143,711,000 guaranteed floating rate notes due 2025 for Aeronautic Investments 18 Limited with the benefit of a guarantee by Compagni...

Fitch: Aircraft Lessors Have Supportive Markets but Risks Remain

Recent equity capital raising plans and strategic announcements by aircraft lessors indicate supportive market conditions for the sector and suggest the potential for increased activity in 2016, says Fitch Ratings. The market for commercial aircraft is currently benefiting from the strong growth of...

GE Capital Aviation Services Purchase-and-Leaseback Transaction for Two Airbus A350s with Finnair

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced it completed a purchase-and-leaseback transaction involving two new Airbus A350-900 XWB aircraft with Finnair. The aircraft delivered in October and December and are part of Finnair’s long-haul fleet renewal program. The flag carrier of Finland, Finnair is one of the ol...

Waypoint Leasing signs purchase and leaseback agreement with Omni Helicopters International S.A.

Waypoint Leasing (Ireland) Limited, the largest independent global helicopter leasing company, today announced that it has closed on a multi-aircraft agreement with Omni Helicopters International S.A., a strategic partnership between Stirling Square Capital Partners and Omni Group. The aircraft are operating for Omni Taxi Aereo, Brazil's largest helicopter service operator to the offshore indu...

mba Provides Maintenance Cash Flow Forecast for CLAS US$713 Million ABS Deal

Morten Beyer & Agnew (mba) provided Castlelake, L.P. with Maintenance Cash Flow Forecast and General Market Analysis for their Aircraft Securitization Trust (“CLAS 2015-1”) consisting of fifty-four (54) aircraft and six (6) engines (the “Portfolio”), subject to twenty-three (23) operators, spanning eighteen (18) different countries.  CLAS 2015-1 was made pu...

GE Capital Aviation Services and Virgin America Sign Lease Agreement for 10 Airbus A321neo Aircraft

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced it signed an agreement with Virgin America, Inc., to lease 10 new Airbus A321neo aircraft powered by CFM’s LEAP-1A engines to expand the carrier’s fleet. The first aircraft is scheduled for delivery in Q1 2017 and the remainder will deliver in 2017 and 2018. All 10 air...

Boeing Board Raises Share Repurchase Authorization to $14 Billion, Increases Dividend 20 Percent

The Boeing board of directors has raised the company’s authorization for its share repurchase program to $14 billion and declared that the company’s quarterly dividend will increase 20 percent to $1.09 per share. “Once again, we are demonstrating our commitment to a balanced cash deployment strategy that fuels investments in our people, innovation and growth, and returns signi...

Air Canada Announces Closing of US$537,092,000 Private Offering of Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates

Air Canada announced today the closing of its previously announced private offering of three tranches of enhanced equipment trust certificates, in the aggregate face amount of U.S.$537,092,000. The private offering was comprised of Class AA certificates, Class A certificates and Class B certificates. The Class AA certificates have an interest rate of 3.750% per annum and a final expected distribut...

SkyWise attempt to sell off 50% of shares

SkyWise launched an attempt to raise ZAR150 million (USD10.44 million) by selling a 50% stake in the airline. The LCC looked to sell 1,500 shares valued ZAR100 000 (USD6,961) last week, with a minimum of ten to be acquired by each investor.   SkyWise was grounded this month for the second time in three months after failing to settle ZAR8 million (USD556,856) in outstanding fees to...

Global Jet Capital completes 90% purchase of GE fixed wing portfolio

Global Jet Capital has completed 90% of its acquisition of GE’s fixed wing aircraft financed portfolio. The company has so far assumed 276 aircraft based in the US and Canada, with the remaining 10% of accounts being in Brazil and Mexico. “Today’s announcement is a significant step in further cementing our position as a leader in business aviation finance in the Americas.&r...

ALC announces the lease placement of two new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners with El Al

Air Lease Corporation (ALC) (Los Angeles) has announced an agreement to lease two new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft to El Al Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv). Both aircraft are on long-term lease from ALC’s order book with Boeing and are scheduled to be delivered to Israel’s flag carrier airline in the third quarter and early fourth quarter of 2017. These new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner ai...

Double aviation taxation avoidance pact will benefit Taiwan, Macau: MOF

The newly concluded Taiwan-Macau double taxation avoidance agreement on aviation businesses will boost the development of air transport between the two sides and increase bilateral business and people-to-people exchanges, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF). Taiwanese carriers Eva Air and TransAsia Airways, as well as Tigerair Taiwan -- a joint venture between Taiwan's China Airlines...

Low Oil, High Travel Demand to Boost Airline Profits Next Year: IATA

Low oil prices and healthy demand for travel, despite recent terror attacks hurting some destinations, will boost airline profits again in 2016, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Thursday. IATA, which represents almost 260 airlines accounting for 83 percent of global air traffic, said net profit would reach record levels of US$36.3 billion, after US$33 billion in 2...

Branson Airline Lands EUR304 Million - Without Selling Its Lucrative Heathrow Slots

Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways said it raised 220 million pounds (EUR304 million) from Europe's first-ever bonds secured against airport operating slots. The issue, backed by scarce take-off and landing positions at London's Heathrow airport, will help finance long- term investments including the purchase of new aircraft Virgin said. The deal is the company...

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MTU Maintenance Lease Services, the engine leasing and asset management arm of MTU Maintenance, announced a strategic minority investment in TRecs . TRecs is a platform digitalising Open Ite...

WingsLeasing signs dry lease agreement with University of Nebraska-Kearney flight school

WingsLeasing announced the signing of a dry lease agreement of seven Tecnam P-MENTOR aircraft for the University of Nebraska-Kearney flight training program, marking a significant step forward in resh...

Emirates breaks ground on US$ 5.1 billion ultra-modern engineering facility at Dubai South

Emirates has broken ground on its new US$ 5.1 billion engineering complex at Dubai South slated to become the world’s most modern and advanced MRO facility, cementing Emirates' and Duba...

AURA AERO scales up: Series B completed, first firm orders, and two industrial sites to be built in France and the U.S.

AURA AERO is entering a new phase. Thanks to a new €50 million funding round, grants secured in France and Europe, and financial support from the State of Florida for its U.S. plant, AURA AERO ha...

AerCap orders 100 additional Airbus A320neo family aircraft

AerCap has signed a firm order with  Airbus for 23 A320neo and 77 A321neo aircraft. This transaction underscores AirCap’s strategy of investing in the world's most in-demand, fuel-effic...

Aviation Capital Group orders 50 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft

Boeing and Aviation Capital Group LLC announced the airplane lessor has placed a new order for 50 737 MAX jets, including 25 737-8 and 25 737-10 airplanes. The acquisition of 50 additional jets i...

TrueNoord places firm order for 20 Embraer E195-E2 aircraft and secures purchase rights for up to 30 additional jets

TrueNoord has signed a firm order agreement with Embraer to acquire twenty factory-new E195-E2 aircraft. The agreement also includes purchase rights for up to twenty additional new E195-E2 aircra...