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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Market for Narrowbodies Remains Strong
The market for newer narrowbodies remains strong with any decline being more age related than due to the transition to new types. The mainstream A320s and B737-800s continue to be in demand though some operators are struggling to cope with lower yields resulting from increased competition and fluctuating fuel prices.…

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October 17, 2016
AVI
B737-300 Continues to Face Declines
The B737-300 is able to take advantage of the demand for extra capacity during the peak Northern Hemisphere summer months but thereafter may be parked for a long period, underlining its overall lack of attraction. The values of the B737-300 have continued to experience a significant fall that started in…

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October 17, 2016
AVI
OEMs Continue to Charge Near List Pricing for Spare Engines
While buying a new aircraft may see more than a 50 percent discount on the airframe and engines compared to the quoted list price the same cannot be said when ordering a new spare engine thereafter. The engine manufacturers usually sell installed engines at a considerable discount, occasionally at below…

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October 17, 2016
AVI
Aircraft Asset Assessment
The B737-300 Market Presence. There can be no ignoring the vast number of operators and the suitability of the type to a wide range of operations but there can also be no disguising the number that are in storage. Although production may have ceased more than a decade ago, the…

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October 17, 2016
AVI
Rentals Continue to Fall for Older Examples
The lease rentals of older widebody aircraft continue to fall as the market moves to newer types. Sale and leaseback transactions, which constitute an increasingly large proportion of new aircraft deliveries, continue to involve higher lease rates than those attributed to vanilla dry operating lease rentals. Lease rentals are provided…

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October 17, 2016
AVI
Manufacturers Support Programs Vital for Business Jet Values
The value of larger business jets can be severely compromised in the event the aircraft does not have a manufacturers support program in place. There are various manufacturers program for business jets. An engine support program is considered to be something of a necessity to maintain the value of the…

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October 3, 2016
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Values of Older A330-300s Continue to Suffer
Values of Newer Examples Also Fall But More By Association The values of the A330-300 remain under scrutiny as the development of the A330neo continues apace but the emphasis of any decline is clearly on the older rather than newer examples. The values of post 2002 A330-300s have also been…

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October 3, 2016
AVI
Development of B737MAX10 Would Impact Values of Any MAX9s
The discussions over the development of a possible “B737MAX10” continue but such a variant would likely arrive after the introduction of the MAX9, thereby impacting the values of the latter. The latest comment comes from Boeings’ Michael Teal, Vice President and Chief Project Engineer of the B737 MAX program, who…

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October 3, 2016
AVI