Avolon

While lessors have done well with lease rates surging, disrupted supply chains and other issues make normal business, let alone growth, complicated to manage.

South Korean carrier T’Way is advancing its long-haul plans by securing a deal to lease Airbus A330neos from Avolon.

Airlines and lessors have at least one thing in common these days: unheard-of disruption as manufacturers fail to meet their delivery commitments.

Avolon will buy the aircraft leasing unit of alternative investment manager Castlelake for an undisclosed sum in a deal that will add 118 jets to its fleet.

The partnership is aimed at exploring the financing and commercialization of hydrogen-powered aircraft as part of Airbus’ ZEROe concept aircraft project.

Pratt & Whitney has secured an order from Avolon for the PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) to power 80 Airbus A320neos.

As the leasing landscape changes, lessors are employing lower-risk strategies.

OEMs and lessors foresee more challenges to the industry's global supply chain over the next few years.

Lessor CDB Aviation, has agreed to lease agreements for two Airbus A320neos with Azerbaijan’s national air carrier, Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL).

Uncertainties in business, geopolitics and technology create challenges for MRO leaders.

SpinLaunch Chairman Dómhnal Slattery described the transition as a “natural progression.”

Lessors around the world completed a series of financing deals in recent days.

The largest aircraft lessors could receive more than $2B by 2025 as insurance settlements from lost business and assets in Russia pay out faster than expected.

For the leasing and air finance industry, the Boeing crisis seems to have sunk in to a degree as part of normal life in aerospace and for its customers.

In a new outlook paper highlighting major changes in the aviation market, lessor Avolon said it expects market lease rates to rise further.

Airline lessor Avolon said market conditions were strengthening as it gave an update on 2023 activities.

Avolon has placed further large orders for both the Boeing 737-8 and the Airbus A321neo in deals that indicate where the lessor thinks the market will trend.

Dómhnal Slattery has a new job as chairman of a startup looking to commercialize a centrifuge-based mass accelerator for space access called SpinLaunch.

Emirates plans to reveal further orders taking fleet plans into the 2030s, but new players like Riyadh Air and a revived Indian aviation sector are emerging.

Domestic growth and overseas investment are stimulating Ireland’s MRO ecosystem.

India has belatedly amended its insolvency law to exclude leased aircraft from assets that can be frozen in line with the 2001 Cape Town Convention.

As airlines scramble for capacity, lessors enjoy much higher rates and predict the good times are here to stay.

Avolon CEO Andy Cronin spoke to Aviation Daily on the sidelines of the recent ISTAT Europe, Middle East and Africa conference in London.

CEOs of large aircraft leasing companies are bullish about their sector’s outlook, despite much higher interest rates and continuing supply chain disruptions.

Avolon's binding agreement for the Airbus A330neos finalizes a deal that was originally announced at the June 2023 Paris Air Show.