Air Lease (NYSE: AL) announces financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025.

“We had a strong quarter bolstered by our new aircraft deliveries, healthy gains on sales, increasing portfolio yield, and significant Russia insurance recoveries. Demand for aircraft, both on the leasing and sales side, remains robust and bodes well for margin expansion,” said John L. Plueger, Chief Executive Officer and President.

Second Quarter 2025 Results

The following table summarizes our operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 (in millions, except per share amounts and percentages):

Highlights

• During the second quarter, we took delivery of 12 aircraft from our orderbook, representing $892 million in aircraft investments, ending the period with 495 aircraft in our owned fleet and over $33 billion in total assets.
• We recognized a net benefit of $344 million from the settlement of insurance claims related to our former Russian fleet for the three months ended June 30, 2025. In addition, we expect to recognize an additional net benefit of approximately $60 million in the third quarter of 2025 from the settlement of additional insurance claims. As of August 4, 2025, we have entered into agreements to recover 104% of our Russian Fleet write-off that was recorded in March of 2022 at the onset of the Russian-Ukraine War.
• Sold four aircraft during the second quarter for $126 million in sales proceeds.
• We have $1.4 billion of aircraft in our sales pipeline¹, which includes approximately $524 million in flight equipment held for sale as of June 30, 2025 and approximately $851 million of aircraft subject to letters of intent.
• Placed 100% and 87% of our expected orderbook on long-term leases for aircraft delivering through the end of 2026 and 2027, respectively, and placed approximately 58% of our entire orderbook delivering through 2031.
• Ended the quarter with $28.8 billion in committed minimum future rental payments consisting of $19.3 billion in contracted minimum rental payments on the aircraft in our existing fleet and $9.5 billion in minimum future rental payments related to aircraft which will deliver during the last six months of 2025 through 2031.
• On July 30, 2025, our board of directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 per share on our outstanding Class A common stock. This quarterly dividend of $0.22 per share will be paid on October 8, 2025, to holders of record of our Class A common stock as of September 3, 2025.

Financial Overview

Our total rental of flight equipment revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2025 increased by approximately 11%, to $679 million, as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2024. The increase is primarily due to the continued growth of our fleet and higher end of lease revenue. During the three months ended June 30, 2025, we recognized approximately $20 million in end of lease revenue as compared to $2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2024.

Our gain on aircraft sales and trading and other income for the three months ended June 30, 2025 decreased by 8%, to $53 million, as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2024, primarily driven by lower sales volume, partially offset by increases in management fee revenue and other income. We recorded $16.7 million in gains from the sale of four aircraft for the three months ended June 30, 2025, compared to $39.8 million in gains from the sale of 11 aircraft for the three months ended June 30, 2024.

Our net income attributable to common stockholders for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $374 million, or $3.33 per diluted share, as compared to $90 million, or $0.81 per diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2024. Net income attributable to common stockholders increased from the prior year period primarily due to a net benefit of $344 million from the settlement of insurance claims with certain insurers related to aircraft detained in Russia, along with higher total revenues as discussed above. These were slightly offset by higher interest expense, driven by the increase in our composite cost of funds.

Adjusted net income before income taxes during the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $157 million, or $1.40 per adjusted diluted share, as compared to $137 million, or $1.23 per adjusted diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2024. The increase is primarily due to an increase in our total rental of flight equipment revenue as discussed above, partially offset by higher interest expense, driven by the increase in our composite cost of funds, and a decrease in our gain on aircraft sales and trading and other income.

Flight Equipment Portfolio

As of June 30, 2025, the net book value of our fleet increased to $29.1 billion, compared to $28.2 billion as of December 31, 2024. As of June 30, 2025, we owned 495 aircraft in our aircraft portfolio, comprised of 357 narrowbody aircraft and 138 widebody aircraft, and we managed 53 aircraft. The weighted average fleet age and weighted average remaining lease term of flight equipment subject to operating lease as of June 30, 2025 was 4.8 years and 7.2 years, respectively. We had a globally diversified customer base comprised of 109 airlines in 55 countries as of June 30, 2025.

The following table summarizes the key portfolio metrics of our fleet as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024:

The following table details the regional concentration of our flight equipment subject to operating leases:

The following table details the composition of our owned fleet by aircraft type:

Debt Financing Activities

We ended the second quarter of 2025 with total debt financing, net of discounts and issuance costs, of $20.3 billion. As of June 30, 2025, 76.7% of our total debt financing was at a fixed rate and 97.4% was unsecured. As of June 30, 2025, our composite cost of funds was 4.28%. We ended the quarter with total liquidity of $7.9 billion.

As of the end of the periods presented, our debt portfolio was comprised of the following components (dollars in millions, except percentages):

Conference Call

In connection with this earnings release, Air Lease will host a conference call on August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM Eastern Time to discuss the Company's financial results for the second quarter of 2025.

Investors can participate in the conference call by dialing 1 (800) 715-9871 domestic or 1 (646) 307-1963 international. The passcode for the call is 4869598.

The conference call will also be broadcast live through a link on the Investors page of the Air Lease website at www.airleasecorp.com. Please visit the website at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software. A replay of the broadcast will be available on the Investors page of the Air Lease website.

For your convenience, the conference call can be replayed in its entirety beginning on August 4, 2025 until 11:59 PM ET on August 11, 2025. If you wish to listen to the replay of this conference call, please dial 1 (800) 770-2030 domestic or 1 (647) 362-9199 international and enter passcode 4869598.

About Air Lease (NYSE: AL)

Air Lease is a leading global aircraft leasing company based in Los Angeles, California that has airline customers throughout the world. Air Lease and its team of dedicated and experienced professionals are principally engaged in purchasing new commercial aircraft and leasing them to its airline customers worldwide through customized aircraft leasing and financing solutions. Air Lease routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the “Investors” section of its website at www.airleasecorp.com. Investors and potential investors are encouraged to consult Air Lease’s website regularly for important information. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, Air Lease’s website is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this press release.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements appear in a number of places in this press release and include statements regarding, among other matters, the state of the airline industry, our access to the capital and debt markets, the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact of sanctions imposed on Russia, aircraft and engine delivery delays and manufacturing flaws, our aircraft sales pipeline and expectations, changes in inflation and interest rates and other macroeconomic conditions and other factors affecting our financial condition or results of operations. Words such as “can,” “could,” “may,” “predicts,” “potential,” “will,” “projects,” “continuing,” “ongoing,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates” and “should,” and variations of these words and similar expressions, are used in many cases to identify these forward-looking statements. Any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results to vary materially from our future results, performance or achievements, or those of our industry, expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others:

• our inability to obtain additional capital on favorable terms, or at all, to acquire aircraft, service our debt obligations and refinance maturing debt obligations;
• increases in our cost of borrowing, decreases in our credit ratings or changes in interest rates;
• our inability to generate sufficient returns on our aircraft investments through strategic aircraft acquisitions and profitable leasing;
• the failure of an aircraft or engine manufacturer to meet its contractual obligations to us, including or as a result of labor strikes, aviation supply chain constraints, manufacturing flaws or technical or other difficulties with aircraft or engines before or after delivery;
• our ability to recover losses related to aircraft detained in Russia, including through insurance claims and related litigation;
• obsolescence of, or changes in overall demand for, our aircraft;
• changes in the value of, and lease rates for, our aircraft, including as a result of aircraft oversupply, manufacturer production levels, our lessees’ failure to maintain our aircraft, inflation, and other factors outside of our control;
• impaired financial condition and liquidity of our lessees, including due to lessee defaults and reorganizations, bankruptcies or similar proceedings;
• increased competition from other aircraft lessors;
• the failure by our lessees to adequately insure our aircraft or fulfill their contractual indemnity obligations to us, or the failure of such insurers to fulfill their contractual obligations;
• increased tariffs and other restrictions on trade;
• changes in the regulatory environment, including changes in tax laws and environmental regulations;
• other events affecting our business or the business of our lessees and aircraft manufacturers or their suppliers that are beyond our or their control, such as the threat or realization of epidemic diseases, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, war or armed hostilities between countries or non-state actors; and
• any additional factors discussed under “Part I — Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, “Part II — Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2025 and June 30, 2025, and other Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings, including future SEC filings.

All forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of future results, and there can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from expectations. You are therefore cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we do not intend and undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking information to reflect actual results or events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

The following table shows the reconciliation of the numerator for adjusted pre-tax margin (in thousands, except percentages):

The following table shows the reconciliation of the numerator for adjusted diluted earnings per share before income taxes (in thousands, except share and per share amounts):

The following table shows the reconciliation of pre-tax return on common equity to adjusted pre-tax return on common equity (in thousands, except percentages):

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