{"id":380253,"date":"2024-05-29T06:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.bluevaultpartners.com\/?p=380253"},"modified":"2024-05-29T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:38:38","slug":"aircraft-leasing-investments-achieving-lift-off-through-an-alternative-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qa.bluevaultpartners.com\/aircraft-leasing-investments-achieving-lift-off-through-an-alternative-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft Leasing Investments: Achieving Lift-off Through an Alternative Route"},"content":{"rendered":"
John Hancock Investment Management<\/em><\/p>\n Global aviation has rebounded dramatically since the dark days of the pandemic\u2014a time when travel restrictions essentially choked off passenger traffic. The current backlog for two major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) amounts to more than eight years of production,\u00b9 with order books growing due to overall bullishness from many of the world\u2019s airlines. We weigh in on some recent aviation investment trends and examine what this means for investors.<\/p>\n Air travel\u2019s long-term growth potential, alongside the effectiveness of new technology aircraft, is driving demand from many of the world\u2019s largest airlines that anticipate massively expanding their businesses over the next decade plus due to high air travel demand.<\/p>\n In our view, this backlog has created attractive investment opportunities in aviation investing. A chronic undersupply of narrow-body jets could drive up existing fleet values and support robust lease rates, benefiting current lessors\u2015developments that could potentially make aircraft ownership and leasing very attractive investments.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n Air travel has rebounded dramatically since the pandemic, pulling demand for aircraft through the supply chain and straining traditional financing sources. The International Air Transport Association reports that passenger traffic globally has increased more than 36% from 2022 to 2023. U.S. daily air traffic has recently surpassed the two million passengers a day mark, and global traffic has reverted back to\u00a094% of prepandemic levels<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n We believe leisure travel growth; global growth of the middle class, particularly in emerging markets; urban migration; and the attendant investment in aviation infrastructure have created additional tailwinds for continued strong aircraft demand. Leisure travel bounced back to\u00a0near\u00a0pre-COVID-19 levels<\/a>\u00a0within approximately one year in jurisdictions with open-air travel and continued to skyrocket, even as fares continued to climb. Going forward, travel and tourism GDP is predicted to grow, on average, at\u00a05.8% a year between 2022 and 2032, outpacing the growth of the overall economy at an expected 2.7% a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n The expanding middle class presents a massive untapped opportunity for air travel. According to the\u00a0World Economic Forum<\/a>, Asia\u2019s middle class could rise from 54% of the global middle class in 2020 to 65% by 2030.\u00a0Last June,\u00a0Boeing estimated<\/a>\u00a0that the global middle class will grow by more than 500 million people through 2040 and that more than 32,000 new and replacement narrow-body jets will be needed to carry them. According to\u00a0Airbus<\/a>, more than 23,000 new passenger and freighter aircraft will be needed in the next 20 years, in addition to 17,000 replacement aircraft.<\/p>\n This, in combination with hundreds of millions of people moving to cities and, therefore, closer to airports, further supports current lessors and future aviation investment. The\u00a0World Bank estimates<\/a>\u00a0that by 2050, the world\u2019s urban population will more than double from its current 4.4 billion. We believe that rising urbanization will lead to greater access to airports and more demand for air travel. More and bigger airports mean more airplanes to service them. For example,\u00a0Istanbul\u2019s new airport (service began in 2019) ranks among the world\u2019s\u00a0top five largest airport<\/a>s and can service 200 million passengers annually. Its predecessor,\u00a0Atat\u00fcrk Airport, had an annual capacity of\u00a060 million<\/a>\u00a0passengers.\u00a0Given the massive expansion of the capital\u2019s airport, it should be no surprise that in 2023, Turkish Airlines announced an order for\u00a0more than 200 new Airbus planes<\/a>\u00a0(the majority were narrow-body jets).<\/p>\nAircraft delivery challenges explained<\/h3>\n