Shares of Aircraft Lessors Take Off in Tight Market for Planes

Companies leasing jets to airlines are benefiting from rebounding global travel, production delays

American Airlines has leased about two-thirds of its 737-800 planes in recent years.Photo: daniel slim/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

It has been a good year to own airliners—or stocks and bonds from companies that do.   

Travelers around the world are dusting off their passports and buying tickets again, nudging global passenger counts closer to pre-Covid levels. But Airbus SE and Boeing Co. have struggled to shake off their own pandemic production doldrums, limiting the supply of new jets.

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