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The Salvation Army headquartered in the Southern state of Virginia and the U.S. Soccer Foundation announced a new national collaboration to expand opportunities for children living in underserved communities to embrace active, healthy lifestyles while nurturing their personal growth beyond sports.
The partnership advances both organizations’ missions to use play and mentorship as catalysts for positive change, providing young people with access to safe spaces, supportive relationships, and programs that build teamwork, discipline, and leadership skills.
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| Private capital has lost its Spirit for airlines, but not for airplanes |
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Spirit Airlines stopped flying on May 2—50,000 passengers stranded, 17,000 jobs gone—after two bankruptcies in 18 months, and a failed plea to Washington for a $500 million rescue.
Four weeks earlier, on April 8, a consortium including Sumitomo, Apollo Global Management and Brookfield Asset Management closed a roughly $28 billion take-private of Air Lease Corp., which owns and manages about 500 aircraft.
So in a world where nobody would write Spirit a $500 million check, private capital just bid more than 50 times that amount for a company that owns airplanes.
What's happening there?
In a word, investors are pouring billions into aircraft, engines, airport slots and aerospace suppliers, but won't touch the airlines that fly them.
PE aerospace and defense deal value hit a record $55.6 billion in 2025, up 19% year-over-year. Apollo's PK AirFinance has issued $2.8 billion of aviation-loan ABS since last July. Castlelake, owned by Brookfield, spun up an entire new lending arm, Merit AirFinance, to do nothing but this.
Meanwhile, Spirit's secured lenders, including Citadel, Cyrus Capital and Ares, looked at another turnaround in a doubled-jet-fuel environment and chose foreclosure instead. The metal had a clearing price. The carrier did not.
He added that while airline operating profits swing, "aviation asset values have been shown to be relatively stable and resilient."
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