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ICBC Leasing leases four Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Transavia France (Linked to Record ID#103451)

Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•FranceDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•FranceSector•Transport And StorageFlow Type•Loan

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jun 25, 2015
End (actual)
Jun 25, 2015
Last repayment (originally scheduled)
Jun 23, 2022

Geospatial footprint

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The project was a lease agreement for four Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Transavia France (Transavia Airlines), headquartered at Piet Guilonardweg 15, 1117 EE Schiphol, Netherlands. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/269263498

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Ultimate beneficial owners

At least 25% host country ownership

Funding agencies

State-owned companies

  • ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (ICBCFL) (ICBC Leasing)

Receiving agencies

Private Sector

  • Transavia Airlines S.A.S. (Transavia France)

Loan description

ICBC Leasing leases four Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Transavia France

Interest type•UnknownMaturity•7 years

Narrative

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Project narrative

On June 26, 2015, financial close was reached on a deal in which Sky High XLI Leasing Company Limited — a special purpose vehicle of ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (ICBCFL; ICBC Leasing), a Chinese state-owned leasing company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) — entered into an long-term lease agreement with Transavia Airlines S.A.S. (Transavia France) — a France-incorporated low-cost airline owned by France's Air France S.A. (95.51% stake) and the Netherlands' Transavia Airlines B.V. (4.49% stake), both subsidiaries of Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM S.A. — for four 2015-vintage Boeing 737-800 aircraft. These aircraft were built in 2015 and leased for seven years. Record ID#103442 captures this lease. In October 2021, ICBC Leasing entered into an agreement with Transavia France to extend the leases of the four 737-800 aircraft. Record ID#103451 captures this extension.

Staff comments

1. A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the lessee (user) to pay the lessor (owner) for use of an asset. The lessor is the legal owner of the asset, while the lessee obtains the right to use the asset in return for regular rental payments. Under a capital lease (a financial arrangement where the lessee/borrower uses an asset and pays regular installments plus interest to the lender/lessor), rental payments are usually classified as interest and obligation payments, similarly to a mortgage (with the interest calculated each rental period on the outstanding obligation balance). AidData codes capital leases as loans. 2. In aviation finance, financial close often occurs on or around the delivery date of the final aircraft. Therefore, AidData has estimated that the final aircraft was delivered on or around June 26, 2015, and has coded that date as the actual_completion_date field, with the actual_completion_date_estimated? field marked as True.