$1bn Aircraft Fleet Sale Triggers Acquisition Program for LCI

November 20, 2007

Lease Corporation International (LCI), the global aircraft leasing company, has today announced a fleet renewal program and has committed to acquire new aircraft worth around $750 million at list prices.

This is the first phase of LCI’s new acquisition program to maintain one of the world’s most modern leasing fleets and follows the disposal of 20 aircraft worth approximately $1 billion to the Global Aviation Holdings Fund, an aviation lessor managed by Global Aviation Asset Management (“GAAM”).

In addition LCI is in advanced negotiations to acquire further aircraft to rebuild its portfolio.

Crispin Maunder, Chief Executive Officer of LCI, stated: “LCI is a dynamic lessor and this inevitably leads to a constant cycle of fleet renewal in a series of carefully timed acquisitions and disposals.

“We always aim to operate one of the youngest fleets in the leasing sector and to do this we need to continually refresh our portfolio. The agreement entered into with GAAM announced today leaves us extremely well placed to further develop our business. We shall be announcing further acquisitions in due course but meanwhile will maintain a close working relationship with GAAM given our strategic interest in their business.”

Matthew Beach GAAM’s Managing Director, added, “We congratulate LCI on their recent acquisitions. We are delighted to have acquired a very high quality portfolio of assets from LCI. This portfolio is highly complementary to the existing portfolio managed by GAAM. We look forward to continuing to develop our relationship with LCI as we both grow our businesses.”

These developments come as LCI commences a major recruitment program, with a series of new appointments planned to strengthen its management team in the next few months.

For more information, visit www.lciaviation.com

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