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. Popular Searches 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.