Conference Points To Soaring Aircraft Production Levels As Reason For Optimism
With 2012 global commercial-aircraft deliveries forecast to approach a record nearly $100 billion, the business of buying, selling and financing airplanes continues on an upward climb, powered by a healthy appetite for investment opportunities in what has been a very high-performing asset class. That enviable environment underpins ISTAT Americas 2012, the annual meeting of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) that opened Monday in Scottsdale, AZ.