Air France-KLM has appointed Benjamin Smith as Air France-KLM chief executive officer. Smith was previously Air Canada’s president airlines and chief operating officer, where he played a key role in t...
AerCap has priced its offering of $600 million seven-year senior notes due 2025 at 4.450%. The notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by AerCap, which intends to us...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has confirmed that 93 new general aviation airports were licensed in the first half of 2018, more than doubling the number of total general aviation a...
Jet Airways is reported to have begun a formal stake-sale process to raise $350-400 million from global private equity firms. Local media sources suggest that Blackstone, TPG, Cerberus Capital Managem...
Mesa Air Group priced its initial public offering (IPO) of 9,630,000 shares of its common stock, at a public offering price of $12.00 per share. There is also a 30-day over-allotment option to purchas...
Willis Lease Finance is in the market with its fifth asset backed securitisation transactions – Willis Engine Structured Trust IV. The structuring agent on the deal is BofA Merrill Lynch; Bank of Amer...
ORIX Aviation has signed an agreement to acquire 30% of Avolon from Bohai Capital for $2.2bn. The transaction implies an Avolon enterprise value of $23.7bn as at 31 March 2018. ORIX Aviation will fund...
The US sanctions on Iran have know come into effect with a stern warning from the US President to any company dealing with Iran to heed the sanctions or risk no longer dealing with the USA. The EU had...
With Thunderbolt II, Air Lease Corporation has succeeded in its aim of evolving the aviation asset backed securitisation (ABS) product to be more liquid and more appealing to a broader stable of inves...
Jet Airways has two months of cash remaining and is grounding a further section of the fleet and selling off a swathe of aircraft. Naresh Goyal, the promoter of Jet Airways, is desperately trying to s...
The response to the agreement between the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and CFM International (CFM) announced yesterday which will substantially improve the opportunities available to...
An Aeromexico E190 aircraft, Flight 2431, crashed in Northern Mexico last night shortly after takeoff from Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Durango, Mexico. Injuries have been reported but ...
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