The San Antonio Aviation Company of San Antonio, Texas, has received an order for 195,000 seats for the Airbus A-320 from the Airbus Consortium in Great Britain, payment to be in British pounds sterling. The seats will be shipped to Airbus under the terms of a letter of credit issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland on behalf of Airbus for the benefit of SA Aviation. This Letter of Credit specifies that the face value of the shipment, 20,500,000, will be paid 180 days after the Royal Bank of Scotland accepts a draft drawn in accordance with the terms of the Letter of Credit. No exchange rate is quoted in the Letter of Credit.

The current discount rate in London on 180-day bankers acceptances is 8% per annum, and SA Aviation estimates its weighted average cost of capital to be 9% per annum. The commission for selling a bankers acceptance in the discount market is 1.25% of the face amount.

(a) Would the San Antonio Aviation Company gain by holding the bankers acceptance to

maturity or discounting the bankers acceptance at once?

(b) Does San Antonio Aviation Company incur any risks in this transaction?

(c) How might they manage these risks given the information below?

The national discount rate in the US is 3% while the rate in the UK is 5%. The current Spot Rate is: 0.6410/$. The 180-day Forward Rate is 0.6415/$. UK lending rates are 8%. The 180 day strike price for the American Put Option to sell Sterling is: $1.5574/ with a 0.2 cent premium per .

4. List the correct sequence involved AND all required documents in the export of seats from the SA Aviation Company to the Airbus Consortium in the UK.