• Is easing inflationary pressures encouraging more aircraft trades? 
• How have aircraft sellers responded to pressures that have been restricting secondary market? How big or small is the current bid/ask gap compared six months ago?  
• What is the single biggest factor affecting aircraft trades today? Inflated book values, low historical lease rate factors, higher cost of funding, airline credit? 
• Have airline restructurings seen many assets come onto the secondary trading market? 
• Is there still a dislocation of book values and lease rates for a) new aircraft and b) used narrowbodies? 
• What is the latest on GATS? 

• Have labour issues been resolved in aviation? How can new talent be attracted to the industry?
• How are airlines balancing drive for capacity growth with sustainability and decarbonisation?
• Lease vs finance – what’s the airline perspective?  
• What maintenance strategies have airlines adopted to overcome MRO bottlenecks? Are airlines still likely to need to lease in short-term capacity? 
• What do reduced OEM aircraft deliveries mean for carriers? 
  

• How are parts and USM scarcity affecting demand for aircraft and engines? Which assets are easiest to place? Where are the challenges? 
• Has shop visit demand ramped up need to spare aircraft and engines?  

• What do OEM delays mean for aircraft remarketing? 
• To what extent are lease extensions reducing the supply of naked aircraft? How long will this continue? 
• Is there a dislocation of book values and lease rates? How does that affect remarketing?  

With more and more offtake agreements being signed, SAF is becoming as a crucial element of aviation’s ability to decarbonise. But rather than an essential regulatory exercise, can SAF provide lessors any opportunities to enhance their offering to airlines and investors alike?  

• Discussing a plausible investment case to scale up SAF for lessors 
• How can lessors use SAF to decarbonise their overall business offering? 
• What would airlines want from lessor in terms of SAF supply?  

Join this roundtable of top finance executives discuss their view on the role of bank lending in decarbonising aviation finance. 

• How are decarbonisation pressures for lenders beginning to restrict funding options? Are there ways to mitigate this for lessors?  
• How are banks viewing aviation internally versus other asset classes?  
• Willl smaller lessors still be readily able to access the bank market?  
•  Where are lessors and airlines sourcing debt? What is happening in the ABS market? 
• When is there likely to be a return in ‘traditional’ warehouse lending? 
• How much are banks and alternative lenders really in competiton?  

• Can aviation provide competitive returns to attract investors to the asset class? 

• How do you establish a new platform in a competitive market?
  
• What would be done differently on reflection? What worked well?  

• Could Irish tax law changes impact appetite to start up in Ireland?  
• Wowing investors: how can new capital be attracted to aviation?