Aircraft Leasing & Management

What Aircraft Leasing & Management does

Aircraft Leasing & Management Limited (ALM) is a UK-based aircraft leasing, asset management, and advisory firm founded in 1987 (originally as Airconsult Ltd) and headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex, near Gatwick Airport. Since 2014 it has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd., a Japanese diversified leasing group listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and serves as the primary UK-based servicer and asset manager for Fuyo's aircraft portfolio while also managing aircraft for third-party investors.

ALM's offering is organised around five core service lines: Aircraft Remarketing, Aircraft Lease Management, Aircraft Acquisition, Aircraft Technical Services, and Commercial Advisory Services, supported by specialised sub-services including Lease Technical Monitoring, New and Used Aircraft Acquisition, Used Aircraft Inspection, Transaction Risk Assessment, Operating Lease Structuring, and Airline Fleet Planning. These services are delivered by a senior team that blends aviation trading and asset management expertise with hands-on airworthiness and technical capability, with named individuals holding EASA Part 66 B1 & C licences and senior roles drawn from Castlelake, Guggenheim Aviation Partners, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Orix Aviation, and Fuyo itself. As of 2025 the managed portfolio spans A220, A320, A321neo, B737-800, and B737 MAX 8 aircraft across approximately 94 units and 25+ airline lessees on six continents.

Revenue mechanics combine asset management fees on the Fuyo and third-party portfolios with episodic advisory, transaction, remarketing, and technical project fees; specific pricing is not publicly disclosed. The customer base ranges from global flag carriers and US ultra-low-cost carriers (Frontier, Spirit, Allegiant, American) to cargo operators (Atlas Air, DHL, Cargolux) and regional carriers, with additional non-airline clients in banking (Erste) and aerospace (Safran). ALM's scale sits in the 11-50 employee band and the business is positioned as a high-touch commercial-and-technical intermediary in a relationship-driven industry.

Name

Aircraft Leasing & Management

Legal name

Aircraft Leasing & Management Limited

Website

https://alm-lease.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Aircraft Leasing & Management (ALM) is a UK-based aircraft leasing, asset management, and advisory firm wholly owned by Japan's Fuyo General Lease, managing approximately 94 commercial aircraft on behalf of Fuyo and third-party investors and serving airlines, lessors, banks, and investors worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Crawley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

ALM is an aircraft leasing, asset management, and advisory firm that manages a portfolio of commercial aircraft (currently 94 aircraft including A220, A320, A321neo, B737-800, and B737 MAX 8) on behalf of parent Fuyo General Lease and third-party investors. It delivers five core services — Aircraft Remarketing, Aircraft Lease Management, Aircraft Acquisition, Aircraft Technical Services, and Commercial Advisory Services — to airlines, lessors, banks, and private investors worldwide, combining commercial and technical expertise under a single integrated proposition.

Product overview

ALM (Aircraft Leasing & Management) operates as an integrated platform of five core service lines — Aircraft Remarketing, Aircraft Lease Management, Aircraft Acquisition, Aircraft Technical Services, and Commercial Advisory Services — supported by specialised sub-services such as Lease Technical Monitoring, Managed Portfolio, New and Used Aircraft Acquisition, Used Aircraft Inspection, Transaction Risk Assessment, Operating Lease Structuring, and Airline Fleet Planning. These offerings are delivered as a unified aircraft leasing, asset management and advisory proposition rather than separate software products, combining commercial and technical expertise for lessors, airlines, banks and investors worldwide (including parent Fuyo General Lease). The core services form the primary customer-facing engagement, with the sub-service modules providing deeper technical, commercial or transaction-specific capabilities that extend or complement them; together they underpin ALM's managed aircraft portfolio on behalf of Fuyo and third-party investors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Aircraft Remarketing
• Aircraft Lease Management
• Aircraft Acquisition
• Aircraft Technical Services
• Commercial Advisory Services

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BBAM Aircraft Management: San Francisco-based pure-play aircraft asset manager and lessor with ~500 aircraft under management; directly comparable as a third-party-focused aircraft asset manager that provides lease management, technical oversight and trading services alongside investment management.
• SMBC Aviation Capital: Dublin-headquartered, Japanese-bank-owned (Sumitomo Mitsui) aircraft lessor with a ~700-aircraft portfolio; directly comparable as a bank-affiliated lessor with an integrated lease-management, trading and advisory proposition similar to ALM's.
• BOC Aviation: Singapore-based, Bank of China-affiliated aircraft lessor managing ~700 aircraft; directly comparable because it transacted with ALM (selling two B737 MAX 8s subject to TUI leases in Sep 2025) and operates in the same narrowbody sale-and-leaseback and asset-trading market.
• Jackson Square Aviation: San Francisco-based mid-tier aircraft lessor with a narrowbody-focused portfolio of ~140 aircraft; comparable as a mid-sized, third-party-funded lessor operating a similar aircraft-remarketing, lease-management and trading proposition for airlines and investors.
• Air Lease Corporation (ALC): Los Angeles-based global aircraft lessor managing ~470 aircraft; directly comparable because it transacts with ALM (ALC is a recent buyer/seller counterparty for ALM A220 and A220/A321neo assets) and operates the same narrowbody-led operating-lease model targeting similar airline customers.
• ORIX Aviation: Dublin- and Hong Kong-based aircraft lessor and asset manager owned by Japan's ORIX Corporation; highly comparable as a Japanese-parent-affiliated lessor with an integrated lease-management and trading platform, and a known talent source for ALM (e.g., ex-ORIX analyst on ALM team).
• Engine Lease Finance Corporation (ELFC): Shannon, Ireland-based engine and aircraft lessor; directly comparable as an aviation asset-management and trading counterparty that has transacted with ALM (A320 sale in Jan 2025) and operates in the same narrowbody-engine and airframe trading ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• AerCap Holdings: World's largest aircraft lessor with a mixed narrowbody/widebody/engine portfolio; comparable as a global operating-lease and asset-management competitor whose customers overlap heavily with ALM's lessee base (Spirit, American, LATAM, Garuda, Aeromexico, Avianca, etc.).
• Avolon Aerospace Leasing: Dublin-based, Bohai Capital/CITIC-affiliated top-tier global lessor with ~900 aircraft; comparable as a large-scale operating lessor with a similar narrowbody-heavy mix and overlap in airline customers across the US, Europe, Asia and LATAM.

Emerging players

• Falko Regional Aircraft: Farnborough-based manager focused on regional turboprobes and narrowbodies; comparable as a smaller specialist UK-based aircraft asset manager and a known prior employer of an ALM Head of Marketing (Richard Dudley-Cave), with overlap in lease management and remarketing services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aircraft-leasing-and-management-limited

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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