6 replies to this topic

[jtsyo]

Should you buy out the planes you're leasing or just buy the new ones you need and keep leasing the old ones?

[pseudoswede]

Keep leasing until you have more money than you know what to do with. Then buy your aircraft from the leassor.

[jtsyo]

So only buy after you,re done expanding?

[Yuxi]

So only buy after you,re done expanding?

 

At some point you'll have more money than you can possibly spend, so that's when you start buying planes. Before then, there's not much reason not to lease

[pabloc]

I think the best option is to buy when you have money to buy 51 aircraft at once

then you get the best possible deal

 

I still don't have enough experience, but I think it's not interesting to buy aircraft you are already leasing, because it's a lot cheaper to buy them in bulk from factory

but I still have to figure out if after X years it pays off to buy the aircraft and this way you don't loose the money that you spent in the lease payments.

[LLC]

I like leasing (new aircraft orders) then buying out the leases as they are delivered ...

 

provides flexibility - if I run low on money, I just extend the leases so I can buy them out later

 

it also gets you to a AAA rating faster ...

[Stevphfeniey]

I just wait until the leases expire after ten years or so, that way I can buy a whole fleet for zero monies