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AerCap Holdings N.V. (AER)

Q4 2012 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 20, 2013

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Operator

Operator

Good morning and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the AerCap Holdings 2012 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. This call is being webcast. An audio version of the call will be available on the company’s website. This call is also being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to hand the conference over to Peter Wortel, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Peter Wortel

Head of Investor Relations

Thank you very much. Good day everyone. Welcome to the 2012 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results conference call. With me today are Aengus Kelly, AerCap’s CEO; and Keith Helming, AerCap’s CFO. In today’s call, we will discuss our fourth quarter and full year earnings for 2012. In addition to this earnings call, we will also host a lunch for analysts and investors today at the Waldorf Astoria in the Peacock Alley West Room. The lunch will not be webcast. Before we begin, I want to remind you that some statements made during this conference call that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. In addition, this conference call contains time-sensitive information that reflects management’s best judgment only as of the date of the last call. AerCap does not undertake any ongoing obligation other than that imposed by law to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or circumstances that arise after this call. Further information concerning issues that could materially affect performance related to forward-looking statements can be found in AerCap’s earnings release dated February 20, 2013. A copy of the earnings release and conference call presentation are available on our website at aercap.com. This call is open to the public and is being webcast simultaneously at aercap.com and will be archived for replay. I’ll now turn the call over to Aengus Kelly.

Aengus Kelly

Management

Thank you, Peter. Good morning to everyone in the U.S. and good afternoon to those of you in the Middle East and Europe. Thank you for joining us today for our fourth quarter and full year 2012 earnings call. Adjusted net income for the full year was a very healthy $258 million, or $1.96 per share. During the fourth quarter, AerCap generated an adjusted net income of $67 million or $0.57 per share. This level of profitability is driven by our two key strategies of having a modern portfolio of fuel-efficient aircraft that is funded by a long-term stable liability structure. 2012 was an outstanding year for AerCap and one where these two strategies were very evident. As I said, we have always told you that our strategy is to have a modern portfolio of aircraft funded by a long-term, covenant-free debt structure. If you follow this strategy, you will make substantial and importantly sustainable profits in the aircraft leasing sector, and you will be able to convert these retained profits into cash at the appropriate time and then either return substantial amounts of capital to the shareholders and/or reinvest in the business. In 2012, we continued to execute on these strategies. Firstly, we followed on from the sale of Aero Turbine in 2011, our part-out and engine leasing business, with the sale of 59 mainly older vintage aircraft in 2012. The average age of these aircraft was 10 years and they were effectively sold at book value. Secondly, we acquired over 1.1 billion of brand-new aircraft with an average lease term of over 12 years. These long-term lease will continue to drive AerCap’s long-term profitability. Thirdly, we were rated investment grade, the only independent aircraft leasing company to be so rated. Fourthly and further evident of the robust nature…

Keith Helming

Management

Thanks, Gus. Good morning everyone. I’ll start on Page 4 of the presentation, which highlights the key developments of our portfolio during 2012. Following the sale of our ALS portfolio, our total assets at year-end 2012 were $8.6 billion. As mentioned, the average age of our own aircraft is now at 5.1 years, down from 5.8 years as a result of the ALS sale. During 2012, 59 aircraft were sold with an average age of approximately nine years. Since 2010, the amount of Boeing 737 new-gen aircraft as a percent of our total aircraft investment has increased to over 32%. The book value per share of our equity has increased to $18.74 at the end of 2012. Also at the end of 2012, the amount of free capital that was available was over $800 million, which consisted of our unrestricted cash balance and an undrawn working capital facility. Page 5 – our reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $11.2 million. Adjusted net income, which excludes the various items listed, was $67.5 million. Reported net income for full year 2012 was $163.7 million, and adjusted net income was $258 million. Page 6 – reported earnings per share was $0.09 in fourth quarter 2012. Adjusted earnings per share was $0.57 during the same period. The average shares outstanding during fourth quarter 2012 was 119.2 million. Reported earnings per share for full year 2012 was $1.24 and adjusted earnings per share was $1.96. Page 7 – total revenue in fourth quarter was $192 million. For full year 2012, total revenue was $973 million. The decreases from prior year was driven primarily by the sale of the ALS portfolio and lower maintenance rents. Page 8 – net interest margin. Our net spread was $160 million in fourth quarter 2012. The…

Peter Wortel

Head of Investor Relations

Operator, can you do a poll, please?

Operator

Operator

Thank you, sir. We will now begin the question and answer session. [Operator instructions] Our first question comes from the line of John Godyn from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. John Godyn – Morgan Stanley: Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to follow up first on this $20 million gain on sale guidance. Gus, you mentioned—I think I heard you mention that that was sort of already booked based on some transactions in 2013. I just wanted to make sure that that was not sort of forward-looking and it was transactions that already happened. And secondarily, would you describe that as sort of opportunistic or reflective of any kind of broader inflecting trend, a more positive trend in terms of residual value risk and the direction that that risk is facing? Thanks.

Aengus Kelly

Management

Thanks John. Firstly just to be clear on the facts, the deal is contracted and the gains will—the deals were contracted in the fourth quarter of 2012. The aircraft concerned will deliver in 2013, and that’s the gain on sale. The reason for the gain on sale, quite frankly, is how we buy airplanes. We’re patient and disciplined, and when we find the right opportunities, we’re aggressive. That’s always been the way we’ve operated this business. We have sold over 200 airplanes in the last seven years at an average gain of $2 million. It’s the way we buy them is the key, John. Obviously there is resilience to certain aircraft types in the market – there’s no question about that, and the 330 and the 737 are the two aircraft that has exhibited the greatest level of resilience. However having said that, we did sell the 50 airplanes in the ALS portfolio which was made up of 35 A320 family aircraft – A319s, A320s – and that was effectively sold at book. We don’t—the fees are coming in every month, but they weren’t part of the consideration when we calculated the gain or loss on disposal. So it always gets back to a function of how you buy in this business. If you’re disciplined and patient, you’ll do just fine. If you force the market, you won’t. John Godyn – Morgan Stanley: Okay, that’s helpful. And just focusing on the broader market trends on the margin here, when we think about 2013 and the supply-demand characteristics that are going to define it, you mentioned this issue of deliveries going up significantly, and as you know, there are people talking about production rate increases out there. I’m just trying to get a sense for when we think about sort of what that means incrementally, is the supply-demand balance in the secondary market for aircraft improving in 2013, or would you say that it’s stable? And perhaps tying that back to your prior ROE guidance of 10% would be helpful. I’m just trying to get a sense for the direction that risk is skewed and how it’s evolving.

Aengus Kelly

Management

Okay, well let me talk about the secondary market first for used airplanes. So it goes back to the point, as I said – if you have modern, fuel-efficient airplanes, you’ll always place them, and that’s the point about you need to always have a modern, fuel-efficient portfolio. And in today’s market, I’ve said it before, that’s the 737, the 330, the 320. You’ll always place those airplanes, and we do not have any AOG airplanes and virtually everything is placed. We have two freighters to place later on in the year, but everything else is placed. So the secondary market at the moment is certainly stronger – I can say that for sure – than it was 12 months ago, and that’s something we’ve been reiterating on calls as we’ve gone through the year. Now turning to the new market and what we believe is likely to happen in the next couple of years, as you know, both 2010 and 2011 were all-time records for aircraft orders. Huge orders were placed by airlines. Those orders will really start to begin to deliver towards the end of this year and then into 2014 and 2015 onwards, so that will create, I believe, an increased demand for operating leasing given that the amount of airplanes airlines are taking has never been this high. Now, then does that lead to concerns of oversupply in the system? What we know in this industry is that there are two suppliers, and in the end they act rationally. They have never, ever forced airlines to take airplanes that would force them into bankruptcy. Because you have this duopoly on aircraft, this is not like shipping. For shipping, the oversupply did occur and destroyed the value of the aircraft because there were tens and tens of ship manufacturers around the world all just trying to cover variable costs of production. That is not the case in this industry, so I would not get concerned about orders. It’s deliveries that matter, and make no mistake – the OEMs will push as many aircraft out there as they possibly can, and that from a leasing company standpoint is very good news because the airlines are going to need the leasing companies more than ever before. Just a point about ROEs – the reason we didn’t give guidance this time is that as we explained on the last call, that was our baseline guidance. Clearly, we will strive to beat that during 2013. John Godyn – Morgan Stanley: That’s very thorough and helpful. Thank you. Just one more – now that have we more clarity on how this increase in ECA fees may be impacting the market, I think the prior commentary was along the lines of, hey, this could be a very slight positive but definitely not game-changing. Do we have any more clarity on how it might be impacting the market, and is it sort of consistent with that prior view? Thanks.

Aengus Kelly

Management

I wouldn’t say that the change in cost of ECA funding is a game-changer. At the margins, it will move the needle. When you think about an airline’s P&L, the greatest components are labor and fuel, and the fact that ownership cost move up by 10, 20, 30 basis points a year is not what moves the needle really. It will at the margins, of course; don’t get me wrong. There will be a few smaller airlines who will shy away from the ECA - when I say ECA, I use it interchangeably with Exim – that will shy away from those in favor of operating leasing. But what really would drive a huge shift in airline behavior is if those entities – Exim and ECA – were to reduce the advance levels and therefore reduce the amount of cash that the airlines can generate in doing a financing with the government institution. That would definitely be a game-changer, and then you would see an enormous shift to operating leasing. But that is not the case. There’s been a small decline in advance levels for certain airlines, so I would say, John, overall yes at the margin, and for some smaller airlines for sure, yeah, it will move it. I think the bigger issue is that those record orders are starting to come and someone’s going to have to pay for them. John Godyn – Morgan Stanley: Great. That’s really helpful. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, and our next question comes from the line of Gary Liebowitz from Wells Fargo Securities. Please go ahead. Gary Liebowitz – Wells Fargo Securities: Thank you, Operator. Good morning gentlemen. If you can just clarify – you’re affirming the 10% ROE number for 2013, even though it’s not on the guidance page. And just to be clear, you don’t need that $20 million gain to get there – is that correct?

Keith Helming

Management

That’s correct, Gary. Gary Liebowitz – Wells Fargo Securities: Okay. Also Gus, can you give us a little more color on the A320 sale leasebacks that were cancelled?

Aengus Kelly

Management

We had two aircraft with a particular customer that was a sale leaseback transaction, and the customer has deferred those positions so we decided not to proceed with the sale leaseback. Gary Liebowitz – Wells Fargo Securities: Okay. And then can you just—for the 1.1 billion of asset purchases this year, what does the timing look like? Is it pretty even throughout the year? I thought some of the Singapore planes deliver a little bit early.

Keith Helming

Management

It’s slightly skewed to the first half of the year, Gary, but there’s still a significant amount in second half. Gary Liebowitz – Wells Fargo Securities: Okay. And have you announced the financing for the Singapore aircraft yet?

Keith Helming

Management

No, we have not. No. Gary Liebowitz – Wells Fargo Securities: Okay, I’ll get back in the queue. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, and our next question comes from the line of Arren Cyganovich from Evercore. Please go ahead. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore: Thank you. The basic lease rate guidance of down 3 to 6% was a little bit lower than we were expecting, but also the depreciation rate for the quarter in the fourth quarter was a lot lower than we were expecting. Can you give us any sense of how that depreciation rate will hold in 2013, given that you have a generally younger portfolio now?

Keith Helming

Management

Right. The depreciation rate that you see for the year is based on the equipment that we have and the equipment that we’re going to be booking for 2013. It should be around an annualized rate of about $350 million. And the guidance for the lower revenue, it could be toward the lower end of the 3 to 6% range but it all depends on obviously re-lease rates and any potential impact from defaults or restructurings. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore: Okay. And the 2013 acquisitions were lowered modestly to 1.1 from 1.2. Is that from the contracted sales that you’re going to have the gain on?

Aengus Kelly

Management

It was actually the two A320s that we have cancelled. That’s where it came from. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore: Okay. So are the—is the 1.1 billion inclusive of the aircraft that you’re actually going to be selling in the year as well?

Aengus Kelly

Management

The aircraft we’re selling is a combination of aircraft in stock and coming into stock. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore: Okay. And there was also a note receivable of 78 million on the balance sheet. Can you describe what that was? Was it part of the ALS transaction?

Keith Helming

Management

Yes, that’s right. The ALS transaction had two balance sheet impacts – one, a note receivable which is the amount of cash flows that we’ll share once the residual cash flows start coming in; and then there was a liability that was booked which is effectively some coupon payments that we pay to Guggenheim up until the point where the G-notes are paid off. So there were two balance sheet impacts there. Arren Cyganovich – Evercore: Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, and our next question is Isaac Husseini from Barclays. Please go ahead. Isaac Husseini – Barclays: Hey, thanks. Good morning guys. Gus, maybe wanted to see if I can get your thoughts on Asia. Lately, demand for leasing has been strong in Asia but fuel has been on the rise, earnings and traffic in Asia have been relatively weaker than expected, and some airlines may be facing increased competition from high-speed rail. So I just wanted to see if you can give us your thoughts on those factors and how that might impact demand for leasing in Asia. And if that’s the case, if Asia does weaken a bit, do you see another (inaudible) that has the scale to absorb that demand?

Aengus Kelly

Management

Well, there are different pockets to Asia, of course. If you look at—let’s call Russia part of Asia. There is tremendous demand there. Certainly in Indonesia, there are a lot of airplanes going in there with what’s happening with Air Asia and with Lion Air, so that market—and Japan as well. Yes, the Chinese majors, some of their domestic traffic numbers were a bit lower than expected that were reported yesterday; but nonetheless, the demand for airplanes in China is still very strong. The Indian market has with the demise of Kingfisher become a more balanced market, and we’re seeing reasonable demand in Thailand as well. So I would say, yes, there are pockets in Asia where perhaps the growth rate isn’t quite what people had assumed; but for me, that’s pretty good news overall. So long as these markets are growing, which they definitely will—you know, people want to travel. They want to have new business opportunities. They want to visit family and friends. The market will grow. What’s good news for me is that the profitability of some of these airlines may not be everything they thought it might have been, and therefore their cash resources may not be everything they thought it might have been, so their willingness to engage in operating leasing will be significantly higher than it has been to date. So overall, I would say in Asia, maybe not quite the stellar growth that some people had hoped for, but still very solid, strong growth and enough to support a good number of deliveries in there. I think overall, though, at the moment, the United States and North America is probably the most robust market, and that’s because of the impact of rationalization and the M&A activity that has occurred. And of course, obviously…

Aengus Kelly

Management

So if I look at what’s led to the cash balance, and as you rightly say, over the last 18 months we’ve given back 420 million to the shareholders. I think that’s more than any other leasing company has done. Look, at the end of the day, we have to create shareholder value and return cash to the shareholders or reinvest in the business in a profitable fashion. Now, we generated a lot of retained income over the course of the last four or five years, and this year and in the second half of last year, we converted that into cash, a significant amount of cash, and we gave an awful lot of it back to the shareholders because there was great value in the buyback, as you can see. Our buyback was executed at about 35% below – when you consider the ’11 and ’12 buybacks – below where we’re trading today. As we look forward, yes, we can pay down debt, but our debt is pretty cheap. I mean, our all-in cost of debt is 4.2%. I don’t think that’s fair to my shareholders to use cash on hand to repay debt. I think I have to use it to either give it back to the shareholders or grow the business. When I look at growing the business, there are 50 aircraft contracted already over the course of the next three years – that’s 737s, A320 Neos, and a few A320s going out over the next three years, so that’s already a couple of billion dollars of acquisitions. So that will require a decent chunk of cash as well – you can’t ignore that fact. As I also said, there are a substantial number of deliveries coming to airlines over the course of the next 12 to…

Operator

Operator

Thank you, and our next question comes from Helane Becker from Dahlman Rose. Please go ahead. Helane Becker – Dahlman Rose: Thanks very much, Operator. Hi guys. Thanks for the time. Just a couple of clarification questions, if you don’t mind. I thought you said you had two freighters coming up for re-lease later this year, and I see one owned MD11 freighter and one managed A300 freighter. Are those the two you’re talking about?

Aengus Kelly

Management

No, Helane. The two freighters that are concerned are two 747 freighters, actually. Helane Becker – Dahlman Rose: Oh, okay, because on your chart, it looks like the 747s are passenger aircraft, so you just might note that. And then my other question is with respect to—and you might have just actually answered it, but in terms of your ability to do more than what you’ve already contracted for this year, do you have the—I guess that’s the question. Do you have the ability to add aircraft in the portfolio this year if really attractive purchase leasebacks, I guess, come available?

Aengus Kelly

Management

The answer to that is we certainly do, and we are pursuing them. Helane Becker – Dahlman Rose: Okay. That’s awesome. Thank you very much. Those were my questions.

Aengus Kelly

Management

You’re very welcome.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, and our next question comes from the line of Scott Valentin from FBR Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Scott Valentin – FBR Capital Markets: Good morning everyone. Thanks for taking my question. Just a big-picture question – there’s kind of a debate about economic life in the industry right now. Some people believe the economic life of aircraft is shortening. Some believe it’s just a cyclical issue with a weaker global economy. Just wondering, one, what your outlook is on that – do you think it’s cyclical or secular? Two, any change to how you’re testing for impairments in the portfolio?

Aengus Kelly

Management

Well, let me start and then let Keith talk about how we ensure that we don’t run into these impairments. Overall when it comes to economic life of an airplane, technically these airplanes will fly for over 30 years if required – just look at the fleet lying around here in the United States. It’s the oldest fleet in the world, and they all fly perfectly safely, so that’s not the issue. The issue is from a technological standpoint, will they be obsolete or is your carrying cost just too high? And what I mean by that is let’s say you get back an airplane that’s 18 years of age. You bought it when it was 12 years of age and you paid up because you had a short-term least that looked pretty attractive and you paid up for it. And then you get the airplane back and you have to sink – let’s take a 757 as an example – to overhaul both engines, refurb the cabinets, $10 million. You will not spend the $10 million to do that. So the useful life of an airplane is all about your input costs to the airplane. We have not ordered, for example, A320s since December 2005, but that’s not to say we wouldn’t buy A320s. We would buy A320s all day long today. We know what we can lease them for, we know how long we can lease them for, and that just has to be factored into the price. The same applies to 737s or 737 700s, or A319s – you pick your airplane. Where you get upside down is if you have a bunch of these airplanes coming at you that were ordered, say, in 2010, 2011 and they’re coming at you now and you’ve got to squeeze 25 years out of them, and you paid boom time prices in 2010 or 2011. And Keith, you want to talk about why our impairments are--?

Keith Helming

Management

Yeah. There’s a number of factors that goes into this whole impairment review, impairment (inaudible). First of all, as Gus just pointed out, the input price is obviously very important in terms of the risk of impairments, if you will; but just as important is your operating strategy. When you look at our portfolio, we have nine aircraft that are aged 15 years or older, so a significant amount, if not almost all of our aircraft, effectively gets sold down before it hits the 15-year mark. Now, that’s very, very important relative to your depreciation policy and the like. As Gus pointed out, we’ve sold over 200 aircraft in the last several years and recorded nearly a $2 million gain per aircraft. Obviously our depreciation rates are quite in line with what our operating results are effectively. So you need to look at your deprecation policy and your impairments relative to your operating strategy, as well as to your input price, if you will. And we do look at every aircraft, though, on top of that and test for impairments, and for those aircraft that hit the 15-year mark, we typically will put in what we call accelerated depreciation because at that point, you know what’s really going to happen more likely to that aircraft, so we tailor the depreciation policy specifically to each individual aircraft for those that actually reach that level. Scott Valentin – FBR Capital Markets: Okay. And just a follow-up question on the margin – I think excluding the ALS transaction, the margin was relatively stable from fourth quarter ’11 to fourth quarter ’12. Just wondering what the outlook is going forward. I think you guys were trying to extend some duration liability side – maybe that resulted in a little bit higher cost of funds? And it sounds like lease rates are stabilizing. Just wondering maybe what direction the margin goes over the course of the next 12 months.

Keith Helming

Management

Yeah, the net spread on that margin, it will probably be in the range of roughly 8.5%; but again, it’s lower because we actually have now put some unsecured debt on the books and we’ll probably do more so in the future. So without unsecured debt, we would be back up probably to the 8.8, 8.9%, which is typically where we’ve run in the past. Scott Valentin – FBR Capital Markets: Okay, thanks very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, it is star followed by the one on your touchtone phone. Please remember to lift your handset before making your selection. Once again, it is star, one to ask a question at this time. Our next question comes from the line of Glenn Engel from Bank of America. Please go ahead. Glenn Engel – Bank of America: Good morning. The 54.6 million that you recover in future servicing fees and interest income, where will that show up in future quarters?

Keith Helming

Management

The servicing fees will actually be in other income, and then a portion of that will also be referred to as interest income, so that will be in interest revenue, if you will. Glenn Engel – Bank of America: And that will be spread out over how many years?

Keith Helming

Management

The largest portion of it comes back in the first three to four years, but obviously the portfolio will tail off in later years so it will be a few more years beyond that. But again, the largest portion will be over the next four years. Glenn Engel – Bank of America: Okay, then that will be another 10 or $20 million, then, a year of extra income to boost 2013?

Keith Helming

Management

It’s around 10 million-plus, yeah. Glenn Engel – Bank of America: And the 20 million of gains that you’ve set for 2013 on aircraft, what are those aircraft you’ve sold?

Aengus Kelly

Management

It’s a mixture of airplanes – 737s and A330s. Glenn Engel – Bank of America: Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, and our next question comes from the line of Mike Linenberg from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Mike Linenberg – Deutsche Bank: Oh, hey everybody. Just a couple questions here. When we look at your fleet, and I think your own fleet is just over 200 airplanes, maybe it’s about 210 or so, with the ALS airplanes going out, you picked up a bunch of new airplanes last year, what is the re-leasing profile look over the next year or two? Like, how many lease renewals should we anticipate in 2013 and 2014?

Aengus Kelly

Management

It runs around 10, 11% a year, Mike, on average. That’s the normal average given the size of the fleet, and as you look at it, one of the things that’s important to us, of course, while the ALS airplanes have left the balance sheet, as have other airplanes that we’ve sold, we still continue to manage them. So the entire fleet that we’re looking at is well north of 300 airplanes. Mike Linenberg – Deutsche Bank: Okay, very good. And then my second question, Gus, I saw something recently from Boeing. They usually put out a survey every year and they talk about industry delivery, financing sources. I think back in 2012, not surprisingly, we saw the banks represent just over 20%, and that number had come down. We’ve seen a lot of the banks, especially the European banks, back away. I thought what was interesting for 2013, they had that number back up to just under 30%, and I guess the question – just based on what you see, who you talk to, does it feel that the banks are coming back, or is it just banks from other jurisdictions? Maybe it banks out of the Middle East or Asia that are backfilling some of the Europeans, hence getting back to this 30% range or so.

Aengus Kelly

Management

It’s mainly driven, to be fair, by banks in other jurisdictions. There are some Europeans who are increasing their lending capacity, but it’s mainly, to be fair, in the U.S. and in Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan. Because when you think about it, the banks that pulled out never got into trouble because of lending to the aviation business. They had other issues, as we all know. It wasn’t this part of the business that got them into trouble, but it made them capital constrained, and it’s always been the same in this sector. This is a niche sector and it’s deeply capital intensive, and it has a shallow enough pool of lenders and that’s why any leasing company that’s ever got into trouble has been on the liability side, because you’ve this shallow enough pool of lenders and if you have a short-term liability structure or a long-term one perforated with covenants, you will run into trouble because of that. But that being said, what always happens also in this business is that new banks come in and look at it and say, well hold on – maybe it’s a niche business, but you know what? Because it’s a bit niche, and if I look at this, I’m getting—I’m putting up an average loan to value over a 10-year period of maybe 55% against a hard asset. I’ve got a big leasing company who has shown for the last 10 years they’ve a 98% utilization rate. They can move the asset all over the world. When I look at a comparable credit risk in autos or credit cards, this is a really good deal. But it’s a niche enough business so you need to hire a team of people to understand the business, invest some capital. But that always happens,…

Aengus Kelly

Management

Mike, that’s correct. Now, you know, we took—we always believed that American would emerge a much stronger credit when we went into the transaction, and now as you say, biggest airline in the world with one of the biggest market caps in the world. There has been no change to our terms. We were there when no one was there, Mike. Everybody followed in afterwards, but we were there when no one was there. Mike Linenberg – Deutsche Bank: Well, very good. Very good timing, Gus. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, it is star followed by the one on your telephone keypad. Please remember if you are using speaker equipment today to lift your handset before making your selection. Once again ladies and gentlemen, it is star, one to ask a question. Mr. Wortel, I show no questions in the queue. I’d like to turn the call back over to you for any closing remarks.

Aengus Kelly

Management

Thank you very much, and thank you very much to all of you for joining in for the call. We hope to see as many of you as possible at the Waldorf at the Peacock Alley for lunch; and failing that, we’ll talk to you on the next earnings call. Thanks very much.

Keith Helming

Management

Thanks everyone.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude the AerCap Holdings 2012 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Financial Results conference call. We’d like to thank you for your participation and you may now disconnect.