It may well be third time lucky as IAG’s improved offer of €2.55 a share for Aer Lingus has been approved by the latter’s board with an announcement scheduled for today. Once again the ex-Aer Lingus p...
It is well over a year now since the Guggenheim ETF closed due to lack of interest, even though it was performing well, but US Global Jets ETF (JETS) has filed in the USA. The JETS ETF will attach wei...
Aldus Aviation (Aldus) announced yesterday the pricing of $540 million asset backed secured Term Loans (Loans) for ATLAS 2014-1 Limited and ATLAS 2014-1 LLC (together ATLAS). The net proceeds of the ...
With under a month to go before the third Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Dublin conference at the beautiful Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin on 18-20 January 2015, the final schedule is online now – cli...
The fundamentals of the Russian economy now closely resemble those of 1989 when the USSR collapsed. The Ruble is seemingly now in freefall after losing 11% yesterday even though Russia increased inter...
When the A380 was launched and the cost of the program became clear you might recall that I wrote a string of editorials detailing the fact that this would go down as a massive loss for Airbus. It was...
As 2014 draws rapidly to a close and the holidays are but a handful of days away we must ask ourselves if this year will be one to remember for good or bad? In the world of aviation finance and leasin...
Brent crude oil has fallen below $65 – a five-year low- and is expected to keep falling to way below $60 a barrel. Opec has predicted that demand for its crude oil will fall to 28.9m barrels per day n...
The Indian government has acknowledged problems in the aviation sector this week by stating: “Kingfisher is crashing and right now SpiceJet seems to be giving us harder times as far as airlines are co...
Before we get into the actual news for the day, I feel I need to reiterate that our Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Dublin 2015 is fully arranged, fully sponsored and will have around 1,000 delegat...
As fuel prices continue to drop and the likelihood of crude prices falling below the $50 mark within the next few years increases, one must ask – who on earth needs a Neo or Max in this market? Obviou...
Two asset backed securitisation transactions both backed by Embraer aircraft were launched into the market yesterday. The $380.5 million Series 2014-1 notes issued by Eagle I Limited – Jetscape Aviati...
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