DUBLIN, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The head of Carlyle Aviation Partners said that aircraft leasing firms will be likely to further increase lease rates as the supply of aircraft becomes more scarce throughout 2023, saying prices have not been high enough in recent years.

"As the balance changes and it's more a scarcity environment, there's going to be a propensity for lessors to take the opportunity to increase lease rates and to charge more," said Robert Korn, whose firm was ranked as the 8th biggest lessor in publisher Airfinance Journal's 2022 rankings.

"So we're starting to see rates rise, and I don't think they've risen as far as they will rise and I don't think they've caught up with interest rates yet either." (Reporting by Padraic Halpin and Joanna Plucinska. Editing Jane Merriman)