Doric added its 17th Airbus A380, and therefore its 34th aircraft under management, to its portfolio last Friday. At 4.34 pm CET on 9th November 2012, Doric Nimrod Air Finance Alpha Limited (Doric Alp...
You may recall that at the start of 2012 we stated that this was going to be a hard year for Kenya Airways and so it is proving to be as the airline has posted a massive 333% fall in profits to a pre-...
Flydubai has funded one Boeing 737-800s with a $117.5 million loan guaranteed by the US Export-Import Bank. ...
Turkish media has reported rumours that Lufthansa may seek a closer relationship with the country’s flag carrier Turkish Airlines, or Turk Hava Yollari (THY), in a bid to thwart competition from airli...
Passenger flights and air freight movements are slowing, the market is trending downward but we can still freely argue that much of this comes following the huge 2010 bounce that rather short sightedl...
Hong Kong-based private-equity firm Bravia Capital is talking to SpiceJet over a possible investment, according to SpiceJet Chief Executive Neil Mills who confirmed the airline was in talks with Bravi...
CACIB today successfully arranged the JOLCO financing of 2 737-800 (2000 vintage, msn 29595 & 29596) for KLM. There is no doubt that in this current market prices have been high of late for middle age...
Sources confirmed to Airline Economics today (17th October 2012), that AIG will most likely divest at least 50% of ILFC through an IPO in the latter half of 2013 all being well with the markets. Of co...
Air Lease Corporation has commenced an offer to exchange up to $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.625% Senior Notes due 2017 for the same principal amount of 5.625% Senior No...
Well we all knew the answer to that one didn’t we. But before anyone has a go at Mr Enders they have to take note of the EADS position in all this. EADS was quite literally offered the chance of becom...
Dublin based aircraft lessor, AWAS, has had its corporate rating raised to a BB+ by S&P. Simon Glass, AWAS Chief Financial Officer, stated, “We are very pleased that S&P has recognised the active ste...
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has assigned a B- issue rating to DAE Aviation Holdings proposed $520 million secured term loan due 2018. The rating agency has also assigned a '3' recovery rating t...
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