The aviation specialist · since 1998
GOAL AIRCRAFT LEASING
KGAL and Lufthansa together bring aviation expertise closer to the aircraft for almost 30 years – helping airlines shape smarter fleets and unlock capital, while giving investors direct, carefully managed access to the opportunities of global aviation. Independent by design, GOAL is also the technical backbone of KGAL’s aviation investment funds.
Joint venture between
Managed close to the aircraft
- $2.6bn
- Assets under management
- 65
- Aircraft in the portfolio ranging from regional propeller planes to narrow- and widebody jets
- 500+
- Aircraft transactions worldwide
- Since 1998
- A joint venture between KGAL and Lufthansa Group
Trusted by airlines worldwide
Aviation understood from the inside
Aircraft connect people, businesses and economies around the world. They are also tangible, mobile and long-lived assets with contracted lease income and a global secondary market. GOAL was built around that opportunity: a KGAL–Lufthansa joint venture since 1998, bringing together investor discipline and airline know-how in one independent leasing and investment business – and managing every KGAL aircraft from close to the asset.
- Direct market access Long-standing airline relationships and proximity to Lufthansa Group give us a close view of a large share of the global sale-and-leaseback market – helping us see opportunities where they begin.
- Technical depth Our in-house teams bring airline and manufacturing backgrounds to every aircraft, managing inspections, deliveries, transitions and records. That hands-on knowledge sits behind every underwriting decision we make.
- Skin in the game GOAL and KGAL invest our own capital alongside investors, so we share both the conviction and the outcome.
- Financing network Relationships with more than 40 banks and alternative lenders help us shape financing around the needs of each individual transaction.
Solutions & services – from structure to operation
- Sale & leaseback
- Operating lease
- Finance lease
- PDP financing
- Capital structuring
- Deal origination
- Transaction structuring
- Bank financing & leverage
- Technical management
- Active asset & lease management
- Aircraft remarketing