Meritas Capability Webinar - Restructuring Insolvent Airlines in the Americas: A Look at LATAM and Developments with AeroMexico and Avianca
Aircraft leasing companies are the backbone of modern commercial aviation. Lessors now account for an estimated 60 percent of new passenger jet deliveries, up from approximately 45 percent on the eve of the pandemic and just...more
Like the rest of the world, air passenger transport in the Russian Federation and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries experienced a serious impact at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet air traffic...more
The use of Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing in the aviation industry has ebbed and flowed over the years, and it is often during turbulent times that it has proved to be most popular. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic...more
If you are an aviation professional in the COVID-19 era, you are likely learning about, or reacquainting yourself with, the restructuring process. Airlines, helicopter operators and their principals and managers who have...more
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, lessees and lessors across many industries are attempting to ease economic tensions by agreeing to certain accommodations in respect of lessees’ obligations. In the aviation industry,...more
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic malaise, lenders and investors are seeing a flood of requests from borrowers and issuers for relief on debt service payments. For private financings where there...more
Can Airlines Seek Relief under EETC Financing? Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic malaise, lenders and investors are seeing a flood of requests from borrowers and issuers for relief on debt...more
Covid-19 hit the aviation industry at speed with its immediate and almost global impact requiring urgent responses from airlines, lessors, financiers and industry suppliers to apply emergency measures to, in some cases,...more
Key Takeaways: - Demand for private air travel may experience an increase as travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders ease in the coming months. - Record lows in the price of jet fuel and an overstock of airplane...more
Covid-19 is an unprecedented health and economic crisis, and it is still unclear how and when the aviation industry will begin to recover. Global government aid to the aviation sector has been inconsistent, with varied levels...more
Amid the social distancing restrictions and shelter-at-home orders caused by the COVID-19 crisis, many workers involved in the aircraft finance and leasing industry are working remotely. Transactions and restructurings are...more
At this time, the full effects and repercussions of the COVID-19 outbreak are uncertain. However, one thing that is certain is that leasing companies are receiving, and will continue to receive, requests from lessees across...more
With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, our industry is forced to confront many challenges, including broad government mandates of indefinite duration restricting the movements of vast amounts of the global population. This...more