In this new installment we will explain whaté es and cóHow does aircraft leasing or rental work?, one práctica más común than you imagine in the industry toérea.
Maybe you ever heard that there are compañíspecialized in aircraft rental or perhaps not, These companies were born out of the need for airíto maximize its operations and not have the need to incur million-dollar sums to acquire its own aircraft.
Aircraft rental is very común and a práctic even in large airíNeas as Emirates, where one thinksíbecause all the planes are our own. A hundred times we have seen aerosolíbrands and manufacturers announce huge óorders for dozens of planes, but really, are not always bought, but a specialized company is the one that makes the purchase and leases it to the airlineínot announced.
aircraft rental
Aircraft rental, which currently exceeds 50% of the world market for flying planes, Eastá divided into the following categoriesías:
Dry Lease – dry lease
Is the opción más común in the market. Comúnmente en un dry lease, the airíleases for a period of time previously determined in the contract (usually 3 a 5 años extendibles), úonly the avión of su interés and while this time lasts the aerosolíleasing company takes full responsibility for operating with its own pilots and cabin crew, safe, marketing and sales, and takes full charge of aircraft maintenance.
Wet Lease – Wet lease or ACMI
In this case, it's an aerosolícompany that offers the leasing service to another. Así, an aerosolícompany that needs one or more aircraft for a short period of time for various reasons, contracts the services, where the dueñor the aircraft(s) provides aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance (avión, crewón, maintenance and insurance), así the airíleasing company takes care úonly to market and sell the flights.
A recent case was what happened with LATAM Airlines and Avianca, which contracted the Wet Lease services of Wamos Air.
Damp Lease – Lease húfear
This lease is less común, being a mixture of dry and wet lease. In this case, the aerosolsíairlines lease aircraft and the ownerñor the same covers with pilots, maintenance and insurance, but not with cabin crew as an example, where these beán airline staffínew contractor.
There may be variations to this leasing alternative depending onún the needs of each airínea.
aircraft leasing companies
The main companies worldwide, that maybe oríthis one ever, son:
- AERCAP
- DUBAI AEROSPACE ENTERPRISE
- CHAPMAN FREEBORN
- TEXTRON FINANCIAL
- GECAS
- AIR LEASE CORPORATION
- AVOLON
- NORDIC AVIATION CAPITAL
- SMBC AVIATION
- ICBC
