Airlines, maintenance providers and their suppliers will learn contract negotiating, terms to be wary of and clauses to request. Presenters will deliver pro-active strategies to ensure that lease requirements are met and ultimately keep lease return fees to a minimum.

Lessors will learn strategies for transparent contracts that promote understanding and compliance with their requirements and ensure aircrafts and engines are returned in ideal condition for quick turn-around.

This forum will deliver:

- Operating methods to get the right teams involved with lease terms and contract work-scopes to ensure that M&E departments plan their maintenance accordingly

- The benefits of true contract transparency- ensuring that the negotiating finance departments have fully versed the engineering groups that will be responsible for contract fulfillment and execution

- How to properly develop and appreciate maintenance intervals and schedules- critical putting a time on a lease to ensure the maintenance needs match the money (maintenance reserves)

- A better understanding of regulatory compliance and its importance when moving from one Lessees jurisdiction to another's Lessees jurisdiction. What is the best way to complete aircraft transfers?

- How to strike a balance between airline operating configuration requirements and the state that the Lessor requires the aircraft be retuned in

- An open dialogue format for addressing standardization across the industry including paperwork; accuracy and traceability of documents; vocabulary for maintenance terms; and data