Ahead of the publication of the completed Aviation Global Leaders Report 2024 in tandem with the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers conference in Dublin in January 2023, Airline Economics and KPMG are releasing a series of video interviews with industry experts that were conducted between October to the end of November 2023.

In this latest interview, Firoz Tarapore, Chief Executive Officer, DAE Capital speaks to Kieran O’Brien, Head of Aviation Advisory at KPMG Ireland, in Singapore in early November 2023.

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is a global aircraft lessor via DAE Capital with a fleet of 550 owned, managed and committed aircraft and an engineering business, DAE Engineering, which owns Joramco, the airframe maintenance, repair and overhaul solutions provider.

In the interview, Firoz shares his thoughts on the impact of rising interest rates on lease rates and the cost of debt, as well as his belief that scale for lessors has become even more critical in the new operating environment and that opportunities remain for further in organic growth among the top tier of leasing companies.

This discussion is the fifth to be released in the 2024 series of Aviation Leaders interviews that will be published between now and January 29, 2023 when the full report will be published at the opening of the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Dublin 2024 conference week.