Air Lease delivered one new Airbus A350-900 aircraft, featuring Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, on long-term lease to World2Fly in Spain. This aircraft is the first of two new A350-900 aircraft confirmed to deliver to the airline from Air Lease’s order book with Airbus. read more

JUN 8, 2021 - 6:44 am

CDB Aviation reached an agreement with Mexico-based MasAir Cargo Airline for the lease of two Airbus A330-300 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) aircraft, marking the lessor’s first-ever lease transaction with an airline operator for the aircraft type. read more

MAY 24, 2021 - 6:38 am

CDB Aviation, a wholly-owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing, delivered the first of four Airbus A320neo family aircraft on long-term lease to Russian airline Aeroflot. read more

MAY 17, 2021 - 6:06 am

KKR and Altavair closed a sale-and-leaseback with Singapore Airlines for four Airbus A350-900 aircraft. Funds and accounts managed by KKR funded the acquisitions, with Altavair acting as servicer on the assets. read more

MAY 4, 2021 - 6:41 am

Aviation Capital Group, an aircraft asset manager, delivered one new Airbus A321neo aircraft on long-term lease to Juneyao Airlines. read more

APR 29, 2021 - 7:03 am

Air Lease delivered one new Airbus A321-200neo LR aircraft on long-term lease to Air Arabia. This aircraft, featuring CFM International LEAP-1A32 engines, is the sixth of six new A321-200neo LRs to deliver to Air Arabia from Air Lease’s order book with Airbus. read more

APR 15, 2021 - 6:09 am

Air Lease delivered one new Airbus A321-200neo LR aircraft on long-term lease to Air Astana. This aircraft, featuring Pratt & Whitney PW1133G engines, is the fifth new A321-200neo LR to deliver to Air Astana from Air Lease’s order book with Airbus. read more

APR 14, 2021 - 6:33 am

Air Lease delivered one new Airbus A330-900 to Delta Air Lines under sale-leaseback with Blackbird Capital II. read more

APR 12, 2021 - 6:46 am

AerCap signed lease agreements for 60 aircraft, including 28 widebody aircraft and 32 narrowbody aircraft, during Q1/21. In addition, AerCap purchased one Embraer E2 and executed sale transactions for nine aircraft. read more

APR 8, 2021 - 6:38 am

Air Lease completed long-term lease placements for two used Airbus A320-200 aircraft with Qanot Sharq Airlines (Uzbekistan). The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered this March. This will be the first two aircraft in the fleet of the Uzbekistan-based startup airline. read more

FEB 17, 2021 - 6:29 am

Air Lease reported that it delivered 10 new aircraft from its order book and purchased and leased back 14 aircraft in Q4/20. Air Lease’s aircraft investments in the quarter totaled approximately $1.1 billion. read more

JAN 13, 2021 - 6:53 am

JetBlue took delivery of its first Airbus A220-300 aircraft. It is the first of 70 A220 aircraft JetBlue has on order, which will be phased in to ultimately replace JetBlue's existing fleet of 60 Embraer 190 aircraft. read more

JAN 4, 2021 - 6:52 am

According to a report from global aviation data firm Cirium, in comparison with last year, airline passenger traffic is estimated to be down 67% in 2020. In addition, Cirium predicted that aircraft leasing will push past 50% in 2021, becoming the major manner in which aircraft are financed. read more

DEC 29, 2020 - 7:25 am

Air Lease delivered one new Airbus A320-200neo aircraft on long-term lease to Peach Aviation Limited (Japan). This aircraft, featuring CFM International LEAP-1A engines, is the first of two new A320-200neo aircraft delivering this December from Air Lease’s order book with Airbus. read more

DEC 28, 2020 - 6:12 am

Air Lease entered a long-term lease agreement for one new Airbus A321-200neo aircraft with Pegasus Airlines in Turkey. Pegasus Airlines also confirmed to sell four young Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Air Lease as part of a sale-leaseback transaction. read more

DEC 23, 2020 - 6:38 am