As first reported by this news service last week, AerCap Holdings (AerCap) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with American International Group (AIG) to acquire 100% of th...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has revised its industry financial outlook upwards. For 2013 airlines are now expected to return a global net profit of $12.9 billion. This is expect...
Last week we informed you here that AIG was in negotiations with a European buyer for ILFC, now we can elaborate further: Reliable sources indicate that AerCap is close to purchasing the ILFC portfoli...
Samoa Air – the brunt of a fair few jokes over the past year as it introduced a fare system based on a passenger's weight – is claiming the move was so successful it is upgrading its fleet. Chief exec...
Brian Jeffery informed me on Saturday that he has resigned from his position as Group Treasurer at Emirates Airline. I thought, more than anything else, I would give this news some time to filter out ...
Boeing’s seventh annual aircraft finance market projects that investors and financiers in the major aircraft finance markets will deliver balanced liquidity to fund what is expected to be another reco...
After we reported that the A340 economics were sound a year or so ago we received a mass of emails and calls that spurred us into action to put our money where our mouth is and launched a joint ventur...
Qantas has disclosed in a statement that it expects to post a loss of up to A$300 million ($271 million for the three months to December 2013. Unexpectedly shares in Qantas dropped by 15% on the news,...
Qantas and China Southern Airlines have agreed a codeshare deal that will be implemented from next year. In a statement, China Southern Airlines said: "Qantas passengers can fly with China Southern fr...
As mentioned here before, India is to increase Qatar's entitlement of airline seats under their bilateral traffic rights agreement, which has been reached and final numbers are being negotiated at thi...
Pakistan International Airlines has successfully closed a US$130 million Islamic facility with multi-currency tranches in AED and USD. The transaction is based on an innovative Shari’a structure compr...
As predicted by this news service, the recent deal between the US and Iran to curb sanctions and a compromise on nuclear power generation has resulted in oil prices plummeting by almost 3% and boostin...
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