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GTF-equipped A320neos dominate lessors’ in-storage fleet in 2025
Andrew Doyle examines the fleet make-up of working lessors, discovering that almost all of plane in storage are GTF-equipped A320neos, however fewer than 8% are unplaced.
Andrew DoyleSenior Director, Market DevelopmentCirium
By mid-July over half of working lessor mainline passenger jet plane in storage had been Airbus A320neos powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) engines, Cirium Fleets Analyzer knowledge exhibits. Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of those had been positioned with operators, leaving solely 38 – most of which had been previously operated by the now defunct Go First of India – designated as off-lease.
whereas the inactive stock of all different fashions declined from a 12-month peak of just about 800 in January 2024 to round 480 by July 2025.
Excluding GTF A320neos, the typical age of saved working lessor plane has elevated from 12 years in July 2022 to fifteen.4 years for a similar month in 2025.
Fleets Analyzer reveals 9 lessors have 33 saved GTF-equipped neos that had been with Go First, whereas two had been operated by VietJet Air and three by IndiGo. Cirium Ascend Consultancy estimates there are solely round 140 extra off-lease single-aisles of every kind in storage, plus round 20 widebodies.
In the meantime, the general saved GTF A320neo fleet has stabilised at approaching 500 plane – principally as a result of scarcity of engines brought on by well-documented powdered metallic contamination points – whereas the inactive stock of all different fashions declined from a 12-month peak of just about 800 in January 2024 to round 480 by July 2025.
Excluding GTF A320neos, the typical age of saved working lessor plane has elevated from 12 years in July 2022 to fifteen.4 years for a similar month in 2025.
Supply: Cirium Fleets Analyzer
A internet whole of roughly 150 operationally leased 737-800s and A319/A320ceos entered storage between August 2023 and January 2024. Nevertheless, these sorts have since seen a resurgence in demand due to the continued GTF points and the availability chain difficulties stopping new plane manufacturing charges reaching deliberate ranges.
Working lessors in July accounted for nearly 1,500 delivered GTF-powered A320neo household single-aisles, of which simply over a 3rd are inactive. Of the highest 30 lessors for this kind (with portfolios of 10 plane or extra) AerCap and SMBC Aviation Capital’s airline shoppers have seen the most important impacts when it comes to absolute numbers, though some smaller lessors have a better portion of their smaller portfolios on the bottom.
Total, fewer than half of the approaching 2,300 Airbus and Boeing passenger plane listed by Cirium as saved in July 2025 had been working lessor-managed. Nevertheless, collectively they managed greater than 83% of the simply over 600 saved GTF A320neos.
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