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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A380

Airbus List Prices for 2015 Rise by 3.3%

Airbus list prices for 2015 show a rise of nearly 3.3 percent across all aircraft types but the difficulty will be in translating this rise into net base pricing for new orders and in achieving an increase in profitability. The rise in list prices quoted by Airbus are largely an…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

January 26, 2015

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B747-8F Values Continue to Decline As Fuel Prices Tumble

Even the potential order for three more B747-8Fs from Silk Way Airlines cannot disguise the difficulties facing the B747-8. Production rates of the B747-8 have fallen to virtually uneconomic levels. In 2014 only 19 were delivered, representing less than two per month. Suppliers of components for the B747-8 cannot be…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

January 26, 2015

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Lease Rentals Remain Steady

With the older widebodies the second, third and fourth lease rental periods need to represent the majority of the profit and revenue with little reliance on the residual value but for the newer widebodies then there can be greater flexibility in lease rentals. With the fall in the price of…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

December 15, 2014

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Values of Used A380s Decline in Line With Expectations

The values of the A380 are starting to decline though the level of deterioration is in line with expectations and on a par to most other widebodies at this stage of the product life cycle. Establishing a market value for the A380 is a theoretical exercise in view of the…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

December 1, 2014

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Impact of New Aircraft Starts to be Felt

With the planned reduction in A330 production due to the transition to the A330neo and the expectation of a similar change in rates for the B777 should new orders for the -300ER fail to materialize, then values of aircraft delivered in the final years of the respective programs are showing…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

November 3, 2014

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“Value” of BFE Essential Part of Widebody Equation

The value versus cost of the Buyer Furnished Equipment (BFE) is increasingly being viewed as a separate item from the rest of the airframe by financial institutions, specifically when considering the larger widebodies such as the B777-300ER and A380. BFE and Specification Changes Notices (SCNs) are the two sets of…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

October 20, 2014

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Lease Rentals Peak

The lease rentals of widebodies continue to exhibit stability but there is an expectation that they have reached their peak and are now on a plateau. A material upward shift in lease rentals could occur but only likely as a result of a rise in interest rates. A multitude of…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

October 6, 2014

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Residual Values Today Take Heed of Events Not Expexcted 20 Years Ago

Residual values for aircraft are regularly being forecast ten, fifteen, twenty five years into the future and are increasingly needing to seek to encompass changing market conditions rather than merely extrapolate from the current market. In 1995 market forecasts relating to residual values for 2014 failed to anticipate major changes…

By: Aircraft Value Intelligence

September 22, 2014

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