Leasing & Financial Services

Denise Mangan-Fahy, SVP, portfolio planning and operations at GECAS Engine Leasing, talks to James Pozzi about the current state of the engine leasing segment and what arrangements operators are favouring.

Fluctuating fuel prices and a better economic environment for airlines are contributing to longer lives for aircraft and their engines.

There are roughly 1,000 cross-border transfers of aircraft per year, of which lease transitions account for more than half.

Leasing market an increasingly prominent consideration in the aftermarket.

Focus is on mid-life narrowbodies; cross-feeding ancillary business lines.

Traffic, Airbus troubles helping single-aisle demand surge.

Aircraft and engine lease returns can be costly and complicated, but lessors of new-generation engines might be simplifying the process.