Boeing Forecasts Sufficient Capital for Aviation Finance

(PR Newswire, Chicago, 14 April 2021) Boeing projects global and diversified funding will continue to flow into the aircraft financing sector as the aviation sector navigates the global pandemic and vaccine deployment continues to accelerate. The 2021 CAFMO reports the aircraft financing environment ended 2020 with enough liquidity to finance deliveries, but with stresses particularly in the bank debt and tax equity markets. At the industry level, commercial aircraft delivery funding volume totaled $59 billion, a 40% decrease from 2019 levels. Aircraft lessors executed a significant volume of sale-leaseback transactions, and the industry-wide leased fleet climbed to 46%. Export credit agencies remain a small but important funding source during the pandemic.