• How buoyant is cargo and passenger demand? Does this reflect global GDP forecasts?
• What do geopolitical and fiscal developments mean for air travel: Tariffs? Oil prices? Conflict?

With OEM deliveries starting to increase and capacity returning to the market, where is the demand currently and for what assets? Is there now a supply-glut anywhere? How healthy is the airline market in terms of demand and profitability? How are lessors approaching airline credit risk?

Grant Thornton will deliver an exclusive closed-door Forum to cover the most pertinant operational and technical updates for lessors. To registered please contact team@ishkaglobal.com. These are the three key points the workshop will cover: 

• 1) AI Developments within the Industry 

As AI continues to redefine data-driven industries, aircraft leasing is entering a new era of operational efficiency, predictive insights, and better asset management. In this talk, we’ll explore how AI is not just a tool, but a strategic enabler reshaping the future of aviation leasing industry.

Liam Gleeson | Director  - Aviation advisory 
Donagh Crowe | Manager - Aviation advisory

• 2) Aviation Lease Services

Management of data at Lease & Asset set-up and business-as-usual (BAU) activity thereafter is not straight forward. How do you ensure all downstream users place full reliance to enable system driven processes? What have been the challenges to date and how are they overcome?

Jer Moore | Director  - Aviation advisory
Ramanan Thanajayan | VP Technical Asset Management- Aviation advisory
Mary McGuiness | Associate Director  - Aviation advisory 
Lourd Renz C. Valenzuela | Technical Consultant - Aviation advisory

• 3) Data Quality/ Maintenance Reserve Review

Following a period in which a large number of lessors have undergone a data migration, what is the best approach to address legacy data quality issues to ensure accuracy and completeness across your portfolio and identify shortfalls within component maintenance reserve funds.

Leah Davidson | Associate Director - Aviation advisory
Wumei Zhou Associate Director - Aviation advisory

• Are OEMs now meeting delivery targets?
• What are the options available for airlines to finance deliveries?
• Are ECAs and insurance wrapped products becoming more appealing to airlines?
• Beyond JOLCOs: Could tax-based financing options work in other jurisdictions?
• How else could the market better meet the financing requirements of airlines?

• What is the return outlook for leasing and aircraft finance?
• How the future looks to investors? Is the PE market still very bullish? Is it more debt?
• What are investors chasing in terms of investment? What are their risk/reward profiles? Have these changed at all?
• How are investors viewing aviation from a sustainability perspective?

• Is the overall volume of debt for aviation finance increasing? Who is lending? Is private credit taking up a larger portion of the lending space?
• What sort of deals are most appealing to lenders? Are they exploring deals beyond traditional aircraft and engines? What about training? Parts? MRO financing?
• How do lenders view the current supply/demand dynamic? How long do they predict it will last? How is this affecting pricing and deal length?
• Cost of capital: how is that evolving over the short to medium term?

With regulatory requirements moving fast, stay on top of them with this sustainability masterclass.

• How buoyant are the capital markets currently? Are they taking volume away from the private markets? What is the appetite in the ABS market?
• Given the amounts of financing required, if there are more deals in the capital market, could that take away from private debt?
• Green financing: Are sustainability-linked structures getting traction? Could the leasing and finance community do more to support sustainability

• Order books vs acquisitions: How are lessors going to grow in this cycle?
• Where is capital best deployed? How is the current supply/demand environment shaping this?
• Can newer platforms still aim for a scale based model? Is consolidation the answer?
• Is airline demand for lease extensions waning?
• How realistic are OEM delivery targets?
• Dark clouds or black swans: How are lessors preparing for a downturn?

The Pitch Deck: Live Tech Demos for Aviation Finance

Join us for a fast-paced, no-frills lunch session showcasing cutting-edge tech solutions for the aviation finance industry. "The Pitch Deck" gives each platform just 10 minutes to impress with a live demonstration of their product—no slides, no videos, no fluff. This is your chance to see the tech in action and discover how these innovations can benefit your business.

Featuring demos from: Flyward, Leasepoint, Watson Farley & Williams LLP - GARI & Ishka. Bring your curiosity and appetite as we explore the digitisation of aviation finance.

This is a closed-door Ishka Forum designed specifically for airline treasury and finance teams. Space for this is limited and attendees must be preregistered. Please get in touch with team@ishkaglobal.com to reserve you spot.

• What are the best financing options for airlines today?

• What's the best way to play in the market?

• Financing airline maintenance: Get to grips with maintenance forecasting and planning from an airline treasury perspective

There’s no reward without risk – so get market leading expertise with this Forum exclusively for top risk executives. 

Has risk "gone away"? How should you view it?

Core audience: Lessor Chief Risk Officers & Heads of Risk 

With $2.6 billion in claims tied to stranded aircraft under scrutiny in the UK courts and a wave of confidential settlements well underway in Ireland, the aviation finance market is bracing for a shift in how insurers—and reinsurers—approach risk coverage, pricing, and exposure in high-stakes geopolitical scenarios.

• How could recent settlements reshape aviation war risk and all-risk policy coverage?
• Events that may impact pricing: reinsurer renewals, possible additional judgements or settlements in the litigation, recent airline crashes etc; will the Russia fallout drive further hardening?
• Implications for pricing, exclusions, and insurer appetite going forward
• Lessons for lessors and airlines on mitigating future geopolitical exposure

• Are lessors growing as a direct customer for OEMs? What about in terms of SLBs? What does this mean for the secondary market?
• Incremental improvements vs. generational leaps: how are OEMs approaching creating more efficient aircraft tech? To what extent is this informing long-term OEM strategy?

While passenger and cargo demand continue to rebound from the pandemic, the labour supply shortage is still being felt across the entire aviation value chain. Competition to attract the best people is intense so join this Ishka Forum to find out how your firm can win the ‘War For Talent’.

Hear best practice from market leaders and network with your contemporaries in this closed-door Ishka Forum.

• Employment Market Insight: How competitive is it to win talent now? What do employment rates and position vacancy times indicate?
• Attracting Talent: How should you approach remote working and flexibility? Can more be done with universities and graduate programs? Could your interview process be repelling candidates? Is there anything aircraft leasing could do specifically to counteract obstacles for talent like cost of living in Dublin?

• Retaining Talent: See best practice and methods from top firms. How should you approach career road mapping? What does it take to cultivate a strong company culture in aircraft leasing?

With the future of tariffs and global trade in a precarious and uncertain position,  this panel of top risk and legal thinkers will debate how lessors best prepare.

• What are the key risks to focus? What is the new check list for doing deals look like? What sort of clauses are we seeing in contracts?

• What is the danger of  the "wait and see approach" when it comes to transactions?

• What sort of costs controls can lessors exercise for end of lease adjustments or maintenance? 

The audience favourite is back and better than ever - stay tuned to see what exciting form the Ishka Gameshow will take this year.