Avolon, an international aircraft leasing company, issued an update for Q2/20.

“Q2 was a challenging period for the aviation sector as COVID-19 impacted the industry on an unprecedented global scale, bringing with it continued uncertainty around the pace and timing of a recovery,” Dómhnal Slattery, CEO of Avolon, said. “The months ahead will be difficult, but we have the experience and balance sheet to manage through these headwinds.

“In Q2 we continued to reinforce our strong capital position and have maintained over $5 billion of total liquidity through the first half of this year. Decisive measures to strengthen our capital position included the opportunistic buy back of $639 million of our unsecured bonds at a discount to par, in so doing reducing our near-term debt maturities.

“More significantly, we have reduced our near-term commitments by over 140 aircraft since the start of the year. These actions provide us with the capital strength to manage through this market backdrop and to support our customers through the recovery.”

Q2/20 Liquidity

• Maintained total liquidity (including unrestricted cash and undrawn secured warehouse facilities) in excess of $5 billion.
• Recorded a 34% reduction in near-term capital commitments to the end of 2021, resulting in a year to date cumulative 52% reduction in capital commitments in the 2020-2023 timeframe.
• Executed the opportunistic buyback of $639 million of Avolon senior unsecured notes maturing between 2021 to 2024, at a discount to par, further reducing near-term debt maturities.
• As at June 30, many of Avolon’s customers entered into short-term rental deferral arrangements or were in arrears on their rental obligations. As a result, Avolon’s aggregate increase in trade receivables and deferred revenue asset implied a lease revenue collection rate during the first half of 2020 of 68%, with two thirds of the collection shortfall related to deferral arrangements.
• Between June 30 and July 3, Avolon received aggregate payments of $47 million relating to the payment of outstanding trade receivables or deferred rental balances as at quarter end.
• During Q2/20, 12 of Avolon’s customers were due to start repayments at the scheduled expiry of their deferral arrangements and seven of these customers made payments in full while five customers fell into arrears or sought an extension to their short-term rental deferral arrangement for some or all of their rental obligations.

Q2/20 Fleet Metrics

• Cancelled commitments to acquire 27 B737MAX aircraft in the 2020 to 2022 timeframe in addition to the 75 B737MAX aircraft cancelled in Q1/20.
• Removed commitment to acquire one A330neo aircraft due to deliver in 2022 and deferred three A320neo family aircraft from 2020/21 to 2022.
• Delivered three new aircraft and transitioned four aircraft to follow-on lessees.
• Sold 10 aircraft during the quarter, including one managed aircraft. Five of these aircraft were sold to the Sapphire 2020-1 vehicle.
• Executed a total of 16 lease transactions in the quarter comprising new aircraft leases, follow-on leases and lease extensions.
• Had an owned and managed fleet of 547 aircraft at the end of Q2, with total orders and commitments for 277 new technology aircraft.
• Had a total of 145 airline customers in 62 countries.