Sustainable Aviation Intelligence

6 Aug 2025

Sust Fin round-up: Coupon step-up in sight for Air France as airline ‘unlikely’ to meet KPI

Sustainable finance deals in aviation involving airlines and lessors or with aircraft as a collateral remained stable in...

11 Nov 2024

Sust Finance Update: Lessors take the lead through to November

Sustainable finance deals involving airlines and lessors or with aircraft as a collateral continued on an annual basis d...

16 Sep 2024

Ishka Japan: Sust-linked transactions more a ‘can-do’ than a ‘must-do’

Ishka queries the appetite by JOLCO arrangers for sustainability-linked deals, the attitudes of banks in Asia-Pacific to...

7 Aug 2024

Chinese institutions in aviation embrace sustainable finance

Four of the seven sustainable finance transactions in aviation since December 2023 have involved two Chinese-owned leasi...

24 Jul 2024

Improvements to Ishka SAVi Dashboards – July 2024

Several improvements and new features have been added to the Ishka SAVi dashboards. Here is what's new.

18 Jul 2024

Sust Finance H1 2024 round-up: A notable slowdown in new deals

Sustainable finance deals in aviation involving airlines and lessors or with aircraft as a collateral dipped in the firs...

6 Feb 2024

Sust Finance 2023 round-up: Deals grow with Air France-KLM well ahead of others

Sustainable finance deals in aviation involving airlines and lessors or with aircraft as a collateral grew once again in...

26 Jan 2024

SAVi Five: Spring Airlines first to debut transition loan in China, first AtJ SAF plant, and more…

Shanghai-headquartered low-cost Spring Airlines has become the first company in China to close a loan aligned with what ...

20 Oct 2023

SAVi Five: SMBC AC debuts sust-linked loan, Spain’s proposed domestic flight ban, and more…

This update’s key stories include a leasing first in SMBC Aviation Capital’s five-year $150 million sustainability-linke...

12 Sep 2023

Sust Finance in aviation: Taking stock of incentives, aircraft, banks, and attitudes

Ishka examines the typical incentive or penalty in aviation sustainable finance transactions, favoured aircraft types, a...

27 Jul 2023

Sust Finance: New deals by EasyJet, Jet2 and JAL, Heathrow adopts flight emissions KPIs

Six new sustainable finance transactions involving airlines or aircraft – including one lessor – have been added to Ishk...

24 May 2023

Sustainable Finance: Allegiant and HK Express join in as issuances pick up

At least seven sustainable finance transactions involving aircraft and airlines have been announced so far in 2023. Rece...

1 Feb 2023

Sustainable Finance: AF rethinks SPTs, Wizz Air and Pegasus debut sust-linked deals

Three new sustainability-linked deals involving aircraft and airlines were announced in the past six weeks, auguring ano...

20 Dec 2022

Jet2 and Viva Aerobus take 2022 aviation sust. finance deal tally to nine

Two November deals bring the tally of aircraft and airline sustainable finance transactions in 2022 to nine, one more th...

17 Aug 2022

ESG data sheet: Aviation sustainable finance 2022 deal tally set to surpass 2021

The tally of sustainable finance transactions involving airlines or aircraft in 2022 could soon surpass the total number...

1 Jul 2022

How Air France and Volaris are prioritising new sustainable aircraft financings

Air France will make sustainable finance a “strong preference” in future aircraft financing RFP processes following the ...

15 Mar 2022

ESG data sheet: Green and sustainable finance for airlines and aircraft

In this second edition of Ishka’s ESG data sheet, we expand our coverage to include all publicly-announced airline or ai...

15 Feb 2022

Aviation sustainable finance firsts: A fund, a secured loan, and an operating lease

Ishka reviews two innovative sustainability-linked transactions by SocGen and Crianza Aviation, as well as the first sus...

1 Dec 2021

ESG data sheet: Green financing for aircraft

Ishka’s first ESG data sheet provides an overview of green or sustainable aircraft finance to date.