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Caixabank diversifies with loan portfolio growth
As the largest bank in Spain, Caixabank continues to expand its aviation loan portfolio, its director aviation finance, Bernat Antolin, tells Airfinance Journal in an exclusive interview
With eyes wide open to 800 aircraft: DAE
Firoz Tarapore-led DAE thinks narrowbodies are great, but the real money is made trading riskier assets.
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S&P Global Ratings downgrades Spirit Airlines to ‘CCC’
07 Jun 2024 Airlines North AmericaFitch Ratings downgraded Spirit Airlines' long-term Issuer IDR to 'CCC' in May
Market competitors: Airbus challenges Boeing dominance of...
07 Jun 2024 Aircraft EuropeAccording to further Airfinance Journal analysis the cash operating cost of the converted freighters are broadly similar to their equivalent factory-built variants.
Setna iO closes A319 lease transaction
07 Jun 2024 Lessors North AmericaSetna iO secures new RCF earlier this year
Kenya covers $130m debt service for flag carrier - report
07 Jun 2024 Airlines AfricaComprises heavy interest payments
Nord/LB acquisition imminent
07 Jun 2024 Risk EuropeConsolidation between two German lenders expected in coming days
A321neo remains favoured
07 Jun 2024 Aircraft EuropeHistorically strong A321neo sales starting to bear fruit
Airlines must seek higher margins: Clark
07 Jun 2024 Airlines Middle EastAirline sector rarely earns its cost of capital
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Back in buying mode: Avation CEO
Avation is bidding on narrowbody aircraft again, its chief executive Jeff Chatfield tells AFJ in Hong Kong.
Very solid growth but interest cost soaring
The days of cheap China money may be over, but CALC's CFO tells AFJ in an exclusive interview that it is going full steam ahead, expanding into new markets, and hoping to secure an investment-grade rating.
Values and LR trends: A350-900 benefiting from recovery
Geoff Hearn reviews the A350-900 market
Inequality among airlines
What do Airfinance Journal's Airline Financial Ratings say about the industry post-Covid? The distribution curve is a long way from “normal” and is becoming less so. We see that the current number of CCC “rated” airlines still well exceeds pre-Covid levels and the number of CC “rated airlines remain 50% higher than pre-Covid