European Charter Airline

Key takeaways

Key takeaways
  • Over ten months, ACC Aviation successfully supported the consortium to prepare and fully liquidate the non-performing portfolio, recovering significant amounts of capital for the lenders.

Key takeaways

The Challenge

Airline customer: European Charter Airline
Lease Period: May – October (summer season)
Reason for lease: Add peak season capacity
Aircraft: A320
Config: 180Y

The summer season within Europe is popular with tourists travelling to Mediterranean holiday destinations. Charter airlines see a big increase in demand for aircraft capacity during the May to October period. To increase availability without the commitment of adding aircraft to their fleet, our client approached us for planned ACMI leasing capacity.

ACMI24 has worked with this established European charter airline each year since our first encounter, allowing them to meet their peak seasonal demand.

The aircraft (A320) are provided in white livery, to which the lessee adds their own decals. They are operated on an ACMI damp lease basis – with the lessor providing cockpit crew and the lessee providing cabin crew – certified on the lessor’s AOC for operations during the lease period.

For travelling passengers, everything from aircraft livery to cabin crew presentation is branded as the European charter airline – providing a seamless passenger experience. Our client appreciates our attention to detail, and has become a longstanding repeat customer.

Our Approach

Our scope of work included:

  • Technical Inspections. ACC Aviation deployed a team of technical resources to perform technical inspections on the aircraft and the airline’s technical capabilities. The condition of all assets was meticulously documented, a technical data room of aircraft records was prepared, and inspection reports were presented to the consortium of lenders.
  • Value Preservation. Our technical team reviewed the assets’ condition and compliance with the applicable storage program, with recommendations on remedial actions to improve the assets’ storage condition and, therefore, value preservation for future sale.
  • Due Diligence. A timeline of the technical and operational status of the portfolio was mapped against the lending transaction, auditing the transaction history against representations made by the airline.
  • Based on the findings of the inspection reports, ACC Aviation’s appraisers provided the lenders with their opinion on the current market value of the aircraft and the likely disposal proceeds on liquidating the portfolio.
  • Remarketing. ACC Aviation was instructed to liquidate and remarket the portfolio. We recommended the optimal remarketing strategy and prepared the technical specification for each aircraft. After approval by the lenders, ACC Aviation led the remarketing project, sourcing offers from interested parties, recommending which offers to pursue, and thereafter project managed the transaction process.

The Outcome

As a result, the lender consortium was able to:

  • Understand the technical condition and current market value of its aircraft collateral
  • Understand the transaction timeline and how that mapped out against the technical condition of the aircraft
  • Confidently decide on liquidation of the portfolio, with confidence in outcomes, including likely sale proceeds
  • Dispose of the aircraft portfolio and exit their investment in the aircraft

“We didn’t just look for a signal; we created a private sky-network that moved with the client.”

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