Our Social Responsibility

AerCap is proud to sponsor Tennis Ireland and to support the development of young players and expand the number of Irish children who play the game through the TI Junior Kids Programme. Our partnership with Tennis Ireland is part of our commitment to support local community initiatives, particularly in the areas of education and sport. This programme includes the AerCap TI Junior Kids Tour, which will provide hundreds of young players under 8, 9, and 10 years old with a welcoming introduction to competitive tennis. The tour is structured across regional and national levels, ensuring that our youngest players learn and enjoy how to score in tennis, through organised, appropriate and fun competition.

AerCap is proud to support Aisling Project, which is an after-school intervention for children and young people in the Ballymun area, in north Dublin. Aisling Project provides meals and a wide range of activities in a caring and secure environment, working individually with each child to understand and address their specific needs. AerCap has pledged to fund the development of a new centralized kitchen facility to serve the five centers it operates, from which they provide over 700 breakfasts to local schools and 150 hot dinners to children who avail of afterschool care each weekday. AerCap employees are invited to share their career insights with the students and volunteer their time to support the staff at the various centers. Education is a key area of focus within AerCap’s social responsibility program. 

On Saturday, 11th May, 2024, more than 100 employees, and their families took part in this year’s Darkness into Light sunrise walk. The event aims to raise awareness of mental health issues, support for families who have been impacted by suicide, and to raise funds for organizations who provide suicide prevention support services. AerCap and its employees raised funds for mental health awareness and suicide charities around the world.

AerCap is delighted to partner with the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) and support TCPID’s vital work in creating greater career opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. At AerCap, we strive to create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, supported and valued, irrespective of their circumstances. We are proud to support TCPID and their students.

AerCap supports Airlink, a global humanitarian charity dedicated to delivering critical aid to communities in crisis worldwide. The organization provides airlift and logistical solutions to NGO partners. In 2023, AerCap contributed to many of Airlink’s responses to humanitarian crises such as the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and Morocco along with the devastating floods in Libya. Employees were invited to make donations to these appeals, and the Company matched employee donations through its matching donation program.

Embracing diversity, celebrating our differences and creating an inclusive environment for our people is something we focus on every day. Throughout the year, AerCap seeks to raise awareness around sexual orientation diversity. In 2024, we partnered with BeLonG To, a national organization supporting LGBTQ+ young people in Ireland by offering support services such as youth groups, training and education.

AerCap is proud to sponsor Leinster Hockey, supporting their ambitious high-performance player and coach development program for the Junior Age teams. This initiative aims to inspire the next generation of junior age hockey players.

AerCap is proud of its long-standing partnership with Orbis Ireland, a global charity fighting blindness through training, advocacy and research. One of its initiatives, the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, is an aircraft with an on-board training facility that reaches developing countries and regions that otherwise may lack access to training. Over the past several years, AerCap employees have participated in many organized Orbis fundraising events, in support of Orbis’ sight-saving work in southern Ethiopia. In 2023, a group of 12 employees from offices across the company took part in the Great Ethiopian Run, a 10 kilometer run through the city of Addis Ababa.

The Singapore team took part in the J.P. Morgan 2024 Corporate Challenge, the world's largest corporate running event. The event attracted 8,720 runners, joggers and walkers from 291 companies on the 5.6-kilometre race which began at the F1 Pit Building at Marina Bay. The team helped raise funds for the Rainbow Centre, a local charity that works with people with disabilities and helps build inclusive communities.

A team of AerCap employees and their families repainted a school gymnasium at St. Gabriel’s Children’s Respite House. St. Gabriel’s is a specialist school located in Dooradoyle in Limerick, who provide services to children with physical disabilities and support to their families, and the gym is an important part of their physical therapy and education.

At AerCap, our employees are proud to be a part of a company that seeks to do good for each other and our communities. Over the last several years, during the months of October and November, AerCap employees have supported Breast Cancer Awareness month and the Movember campaign – both of which aim to create awareness of women’s and men’s health issues and raise funds to support these causes. AerCap encourages employees to get involved through companywide fundraisers which involve the matching of funds raised through employee organized events.