AerCap, an aircraft leasing and financing company headquartered in the Netherlands, is one success.
The firm has already received orders from one of China's leading aircraft leasing firms for 13 new jets.
American International Group (AIG) has reported a huge loss from the sale of its aircraft leasing business ILFC.
With Leslie Gonda and Louis Gonda (both onetime billionaires), Udvar-Hazy founded International Lease Finance, an aircraft leasing business.
So far United has yet to cut any of its aircraft leasing deals.
On the plus side, a sale could help Morgan Stanley offset potentially steep losses it stands to take in its aircraft leasing program.
AerCap (nyse: AER - news - people ), an aircraft leasing and financing company headquartered in the Netherlands, is one success.
Indian aviation regulators on Tuesday agreed to allow aircraft leasing companies to retrieve more than a dozen jets once used by grounded Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.
But its lenders and aircraft leasing firms are getting restless.
WSJ: India's Kingfisher Airlines Comes Under More Pressure From Banks
Helping to fund some of his reconstruction projects will be proceeds of the sale of Morgan Stanley's aircraft leasing business, which has 155 aircraft leased to some 75 customers.
The company drew on better pricing trends in property and casualty operations, a solid quarter from domestic life and retirement operations and profitable performances from mortgage guaranty and the aircraft leasing business.
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Aircraft-leasing companies also are trying to cut their losses, by getting planes back from Kingfisher.
WSJ: India's Kingfisher Airlines Comes Under More Pressure From Banks
Speculation was that they were negotiating a sale of the aircraft-leasing division (Buffett owns NetJets).
China Life had been negotiating earlier this year to buy AIA and AIG's aircraft-leasing arm, but ultimately the deal fell through.
Last month, for example, RBS agreed to sell its aircraft-leasing unit to a group led by Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.
An aircraft-leasing unit that was valuable to AIG when it had a high credit rating but has been a drag ever since will be offloaded, too.
Meanwhile, aircraft-leasing companies that repossessed some of the nearly four dozen planes used by Kingfisher have found a nasty surprise: Most of the planes have been stripped of key parts.
WSJ: India's Kingfisher Airlines Comes Under More Pressure From Banks
Abbey's new strategy is to turn its back on diversification to sell the junk bonds, train- and aircraft-leasing businesses and so on and shrink to its origins as a boring old British mortgage bank.
Sent to the airline in 1988 by his mentor Tony Ryan, the founder of Guinness Peat Aviation, the largest aircraft-leasing firm in the world before its dramatic downfall in 1992, Mr O'Leary was told to do whatever was necessary to make Ryanair profitable.
It recently gave up 34 aircraft it was leasing out due to an inability to pay millions of dollars in leasing bills.
In late 2001 the GE folks leasing 12 aircraft to the Denver airline offered some free counsel.
Getting the scheduling wrong imposes a heavy cost: flying half-empty planes or leasing extra aircraft is an expensive business.
The diminished state of the aircraft is unusual for leasing companies, which typically can rely on strict covenants to maintain the condition of planes.
WSJ: India's Kingfisher Airlines Comes Under More Pressure From Banks
To make money from its new planes, Lion Air will need to expand internationally and may consider leasing out aircraft it doesn't need, analysts said.
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Apart from healthcare, GE Capital Aviation Services recently announced the leasing of two aircraft to Myanma Airways.
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"That raises questions of damages (to airlines) for late delivery and the leasing of alternative aircraft, " he said.
Boeing made a modest advance after news of a large aircraft order from the aviation leasing subsidiary of General Electric.
Consideration also should be given to leasing C-12 twin-engine aircraft outfitted for maritime patrol and counterinsurgency surveillance.
Consider leasing a squadron of F-16 fighter aircraft along with T-38 supersonic trainers.
BA's decision to withdraw from Guernsey has been made because the 66-seater ATR 72 aircraft which operate the route will be retired and returned to their leasing company this summer.
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