UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. 7)

AERCAP HOLDINGS N.V.

(Name of Issuer)

Ordinary Shares, EUR 0.01 Nominal Value

(Title of Class of Securities)

N00985106

(CUSIP Number)

Hani Ramadan

Waha AC Coöperatief U.A.

Teleportboulevard 140

1043 EJ Amsterdam

The Netherlands

+971 2 667 7343

Safwan Said

Waha Capital PJSC

Level 43, Tower 3,

Etihad Towers, P.O. Box 28922,

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

+971 2 403 9311

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications on behalf of filing persons)

January 12, 2016

(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of This Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box.  ¨

CUSIP No. N00985106

CUSIP No. N00985106

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT

This Amendment No. 7 (“Amendment No. 7”) amends and supplements the statement on Schedule 13D filed by Waha AC Coöperatief U.A. (the “Stockholder”) and Waha Capital PJSC (together with the Stockholder, the “Reporting Persons”) on November 22, 2010 (the “Original Schedule 13D”), as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed on December 16, 2013 (“Amendment No. 1”), Amendment No. 2 thereto, filed on June 16, 2014 (“Amendment No. 2”), Amendment No. 3 thereto, filed on September 4, 2014 (“Amendment No. 3”), Amendment No. 4 thereto, filed on December 3, 2014 (“Amendment No. 4”), Amendment No. 5 thereto, filed on April 8, 2015 (“Amendment No. 5”) and Amendment No. 6 thereto, filed on December 16, 2015 (“Amendment No. 6”) (the Original Schedule 13D, as amended by Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2, Amendment No. 3, Amendment No. 4, Amendment No. 5, Amendment No. 6 and this Amendment No. 7, is collectively referred to herein as the “Schedule 13D”) relating to the ordinary shares, nominal value EUR0.01 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”) of AerCap Holdings N.V., a Netherlands public limited liability company (the “Issuer”). This Amendment No. 7 amends the Schedule 13D as specifically set forth herein. The purpose of this Amendment No. 7 is to report an increase in the Reporting Persons’ percentage beneficial ownership of Ordinary Shares caused by an increase in the beneficial ownership in connection with purchases of Ordinary Shares effected pursuant to a stock purchase agreement (the “Program”) as disclosed in Amendment No. 6.

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding to the final paragraph thereof the following information:

Since the filing of Amendment No. 6, the broker has purchased 1,919,441 Ordinary Shares under the Program. Such 1,919,441 Ordinary Shares were purchased in open market transactions on January 7, 2016, January 8, 2016, January 11, 2016 and January 12, 2016 at a weighted average price per Ordinary Share of USD 37.4656.

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by replacing the final paragraph thereof with the following information:

The Reporting Persons are the beneficial owners of 28,890,898 Ordinary Shares of the Issuer. That number of shares represents 14.6% of the aggregate of 197,532,637 Ordinary Shares that the Reporting Persons understand to be issued and outstanding based on the number of Ordinary Shares that the Issuer reported in its Report of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K filed on November 13, 2015 were issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2015.

Item 6 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by the incorporation by reference of the information provided above in the response to Item 4.

SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: January 13, 2016