Financial

Aircastle announces proposed private placement of $400m aggregate principal amount of senior notes

Aircastle Limited plans to offer an aggregate of $400m principal amount of its senior notes due 2019. The notes will be offered only to qualified institutional buyers and outside the United States in accordance with Rule 144A and Regulation S, respectively, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Aircastle plans to use the net

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Kaman closes on new $500m five-year credit facility

Kaman Corporation has closed on a new five-year $500m credit facility replacing its prior $317.5m credit facility. The facility includes a collateralized security agreement and carries a standard financial covenant package, which the company believes reflects current market terms and conditions. The facility consists of a $400 million revolving credit facility and a term loan

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AviancaTaca Holding S.A earns net profit of US$56.3m

During the third quarter of 2012, AviancaTaca Holding S.A, reported operating income of US$1.1075bn. This is equivalent to an increase of 8.1% with respect to the same period of 2011, removing the non-recurring revenue for expired tickets recorded in the third period of 2011. Operating profit reached US$116.6m. EBITDAR (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortization

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airberlin increases third quarter profit

airberlin, Germany’s second-largest airline company, significantly improved its net income for the traditionally strong third quarter, in comparison with the previous year. At the same time, it was able to offset strongly increasing external cost through the successful efficiency-improvement program “Shape & Size”, which will lead to an improvement of €230m in operations this year.

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ACE Aviation announces sale of Air Canada shares and warrants

ACE Aviation Holdings (ACE) has sold to Cormark Securities, as investment dealer, a total of 31m shares of Air Canada and 2.5m warrants to purchase Air Canada shares at exercise prices of $1.51 (1.25m warrants) and $1.44 (1.25m warrants), for total net proceeds to ACE of approximately $58m. As a result, ACE no longer holds

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DVB Group reports total income up 6.2% in the first nine months of 2012

DVB Group released that consolidated net income before IAS 39 and taxes rose to €125.6m – a 7.8% year-on-year increase. Once again, the volatile net result from financial instruments in accordance with IAS 39 weighed on income before taxes which – as a result – declined by 2.0%, to €104.3m. Total income (comprising net interest

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LATAM Airlines Group reports consolidated financial statements

LATAM Airlines Group reported net income of US$21.3m in the third quarter 2012, excluding a one-time accounting charge of US$70.4m related to the publication of the law increasing the Chilean corporate income tax rate from 17% to 20%. This figure also excludes US$19.5m of transaction-related expenses resulting from the business combination between LAN and TAM

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