Buying or leasing? That’s the question

by | Dec 17, 2018 | AerCap, Air Asia, Air Lease Corp, Airbus, Airlines, ALAFCO, American Airlines, Avolon, BOC, Boeing, Bombardier, CDB Leasing, China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Ltd, China Development Bank Leasing, COMAC, DAE, Delta Air Lines, Embraer, Frontier, GECAS, ILFC, KLM, Lessors, Mitsubishi, Norwegian Air, Volaris, Wizz Air | 0 comments

Leasing of aircraft has taken a jump. Yet airlines prefer to buy them outright too. Richard Schuurman looks at the trends. Over the half a century of airliner leasing it has been a booming business. “In 1970 a half of one percent of the world’s fleet was leased. In...