2012 Aviation 100 Award Winner, Japan Airlines’ $8.5bn initial public offering has drawn orders for all the stock being sold. International investors, which will be allocated about 25% of shares, alre...
Firstly, as many of you would have noticed already, the recent weakness of oil futures is giving way to rising prices. WTI spot prices are at $96.93 while Brent Crude continues solid gains of the past...
New figures out from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show that global air passenger and freight traffic growth slowed in July. The only month-on-month growth was displayed in Afric...
A creditor group, which together hold around $600m of AMR bonds, formed of Carlson Capital, Claren Road Asset Management, Cyrus Capital Partners, Litespeed Management and Pentwater Capital Management ...
Japan Airlines (JAL) confirmed this morning that its initial public offering (IPO) will be priced as confirmed here in January at 663 billion yen ($8.4bn) after setting the indicative price range betw...
In the Australian press it is going to be get-Alan day again no doubt starting tomorrow. Few airline executives in recent memory have had to put up with the stick that Alan Joyce has suffered and yet ...
So what is the difference between an airline that fails and an airline that does not? It would be fun to leave that one with you and see the responses but for this slot I must answer that it is Chapte...
An IATA report reveals that African premium traffic has shrunk by 4.2% year on year (June 2012 vs June 2011) and by 5.6% for the 1st calendar half of 2012 (Jan-June 2012 vs Jan-June 2011). IATA’s late...
There are so many questions that we all have right now and so few answers. All we can do is keep on looking at the signs and update possible scenarios accordingly. The Eurozone continues to put press...
We understand that there are some things you cannot leave to chance and the annual get together in Dublin is one of those things. For this reason we have already made sure that the core of finance and...
LATAM has priced a $287m 100% prefunded 12-year Eximbond with a coupon set at 1.829%, which is MS+67 bps (equivalent to L+34 bps). Credit Agricole and Goldman Sachs are joint structuring agent and joi...
After yesterday’s lessor-induced hangover (our thanks to them) it is back to business here: IAG, Europe's fourth-largest airline group by market value, has reported a first half-year operating loss of...
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