Aircraft
Aircraft Finance Grows as Buyers Seek to Preserve Cash
Business jet finance companies are seeing a trend towards diversification of funding sources for aircraft purchases.

Although the Gulf region has a reputation for cash buyers, some owners are taking out aircraft loans in order to conserve cash for other purposes, while there have been more disposals of aircraft of late than in the recent past. According to Oliver Tebbit, a partner at law firm Watson, Farley and Williams, Dubai, the lender landscape in the region, and to a certain extent globally, has been compressed by the current market conditions.