Wider variety of financing options sees lessor portfolios reaching a size that suits a securitisation model
Airlines and lessors seeking finance are exploring less traditional forms of funding, said Maples' partner David Maughan in conversation with Aviation Finance. Maughan chaired a European airlines' panel discussion at the Airfinance European Air Finance Conference in Dublin on January 25th and spoke about the panel contributors' identification of a wide variety of financing opportunities, for instance that lessor portfolios have reached a size that suits a securitisation model. Contributors also focused on growing competition in the Asian market.

The DNA2 experiment
July 18th 2011: One of the intriguing aspects of aviation finance is the connection between risk and assets. Do financiers focus too much on airline credit risk when leasing commercial aircraft or must they always stay focussed on the risk inherent in the machine itself ? Last week's successful fundraising by DNA2 (see our article datelined July 14th) asks questions around this subject.