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Aircraft Leasing Has a New Godfather With AerCap Pouncing on GE
Bloomberg 3/11/2021
(Bloomberg) Aengus Kelly knows a bargain when he sees one.
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The chief executive officer of aircraft leasing company AerCap Holdings NV made his most audacious move yet in a career spanning more than two decades, when Kelly agreed on March 10 to buy General Electric Co.’s jet-leasing business.
The deal doubles the size of his company, already the world’s largest aircraft lessor, by relying on a familiar playbook: pry a valuable financial asset from an owner with little use for it anymore or a desire to minimize financial risk.
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MALAYSIA Airlines Bhd (MAS) appears to have a head start on its closest rivals AirAsia Group Bhd, AirAsia X Bhd (AAX) and Malindo Airways Sdn Bhd after closing a restructuring deal that sees it emerging with a stronger balance sheet, having eliminated some RM10 billion in debt.
Last week, the UK court approved the national airline’s plan to restructure more than RM15 billion in liabilities, which effectively removes “decades-long legacy issues in its balance sheet”, its parent Malaysia Aviation Group Bhd (MAG) says. The plan includes a RM3.6 billion lifeline from its sole shareholder Khazanah Nasional Bhd to support the carrier’s new five-year business plan, which envisages MAS returning to profitability from 2022.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A tie-up between leasing giants AerCap and General Electric unit GECAS would reshape global air finance and reunite entities torn apart in one of Ireland’s most spectacular corporate collapses three decades ago.
FILE PHOTO: Aengus Kelly, CEO of AerCap, speaks during a panel discussion at the 2015 International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, June 8, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
Dublin-based AerCap has confirmed talks with GECAS to combine the leasing industry’s two largest aircraft portfolios in Ireland’s biggest ever corporate acquisition.