Issue Summary

Air Lease Corp.’s John Plueger, presenting at an Airline Economics conference in New York on Oct. 18, identified several “hot topics” currently facing the airline industry. One was environmental sustainability. Another was the tariff war now affecting Airbus planes exported to the U.S. Also on his list: This year’s spate of airline bankruptcies. Plueger also talked about the weakness in cargo demand and the resiliency of passenger demand, even in China and Europe where airlines continue to ask Air Lease for more and more planes. The demand is there and everywhere.