Domhnal Slattery

Aircraft lessor Avolon expects to defer rent payments from most of its airline customers as the Covid-19 crisis continues to ground most passenger fle(...)

A third flight carrying two million face masks and 32,000 surgical gowns for Irish healthcare workers, purchased by rock band U2, landed at Dublin Air(...)

One Saturday afternoon early last month, the Minister for Finance telephoned the rock star. Paschal Donohoe’s call led, some time later, to Bono beco(...)

Aircraft lessors are likely to be caught in the fallout from the Covid-19 crisis, along with the rest of global aviation. The Republic is one of a han(...)

Irish aircraft lessor Avolon has cancelled or postponed orders for almost 120 aircraft to help the business survive the Covid-19 crisis. Global trave(...)

Hopes that the coronavirus could be contained to China vanished over the past week as infections spread around the world, countries started stockpilin(...)

“All bets are off” when it comes to the impact of coronavirus on the airline industry, according to the chief executive of one of the world’s largest (...)

Chen Feng, founder of the debt-laden Chinese airlines-to-finance group HNA that spent tens of billions of dollars on deals in the middle of the last d(...)

The Chinese state may bail out debt-laden HNA, the majority shareholder in Irish aircraft lessor, Avolon’s biggest backer. The news emerged as Avolon(...)

Aircraft lessor Avolon increased its net profit marginally to a record $718 million (€658 million) last year as its lease revenue exceeded $2.61 billi(...)