Founder & Managing Director, AIR Control Tower, AIR Control Tower

Neil Glynn

Neil Glynn, FCA, CFA, is Founder and Managing Director of AIR Control Tower.

Neil has near to 20 years of aviation experience, based in Dublin and London, including the roles of Credit Officer at CIT Aerospace and head of global transport equity research at Credit Suisse. 

The quality of Neil’s industry-leading research and forecasting across the value chain is long-recognized by investors (long track record of top tier placing in Institutional investor European Transport analyst survey; ranked #3 in last survey in 2021) and corporates (regular management team/board workshops, conference presentations around the world). 

Neil has also led 10 initial public offering (IPO) processes, assessing the investment case of corporates seeking to attract new investors.

Founder & Managing Director, AIR Control Tower

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AIR Control Tower

AIR Control Tower is an independent research and analysis platform. Its mission is to provide impactful insight and analysis across the global airline industry at a company and market level via detailed financial models to aid decision making for key stake holders at a time when risks have seldom, if ever, been higher and the global sector grapples with the imperative of funding de-carbonisation. Unique analysis forecasting global carrier-level earnings/cash flows, and restructuring/de-leveraging prospects, is designed to dynamically assess the health of the industry, predict surprises and identify potential requirements for third party support.

Insights on the global airline industry

Equity Bottom-Up

Gol Linhas Aereas Intel-Adr / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We cut our 2024 EBITDAR by 19% following a disappointing May revenue performance at GOL.</li>
<li>We also emphasise that plans to double 2023 EBITDAR by 2029 are highly ambitious in the context of Brazilian competitors LATAM and Azul margin progress since 2019.</li>
<li>GOL, undergoing Chapter 11, is the subject of much consolidation focus with an Azul codeshare and parent Abra discussing combining GOL with Azul. Leverage plans render effective consolidation more difficult. </li>
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We cut our 2024 EBITDAR by 19% following a disappointing May revenue performance at GOL.
We also emphasise that plans to double 2023 EBITDAR by 2029 are highly ambitious in the context of Brazilian competitors LATAM and Azul margin progress since 2019.
GOL, undergoing Chapter 11, is the subject of much consolidation focus with an Azul codeshare and parent Abra discussing combining GOL with Azul. Leverage plans render effective consolidation more difficult. 


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