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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Re-engined A320 Would See “$8 million” Premium
With a decision on the New Engine Option – NEO – for the A320 expected within the coming months, Airbus has reportedly revealed that the new airframe/engine combination will cost $7-8 million more than the current model. The $7-8 million premium was reportedly indicated by John Leahy, the chief salesman…

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September 13, 2010
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Value Convergence Looms As Product Life Cycles End
B767-300ER Likely to Become Latest to Suffer The values of those aircraft built at the latter end of the product life cycle continue to be most vulnerable to rapid residual value deterioration, particularly when compared to the price paid by the customer for such tail end examples. Once production of…

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August 30, 2010
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Lease Rates Start to Rise
Just as the fourth quarter of 2007 was considered to be point at which lease rentals started to falter, the second quarter of 2010 has become the point at which lease rentals have started to improve with those of some freighters perhaps experiencing an even earlier rise. The rise in…

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August 30, 2010
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Assumptions
This is the second comprehensive current and future lease rate table to be published by Aircraft Value News. The table will be published on an annual basis and complements the quarterly updates to specific aircraft categories. The table encompasses both current and future lease rentals. The methodology involved in calculating…

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August 30, 2010
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Freighter Market Continues to Exhibit Growth
The demand for airfreight continues to increase and more capacity has been brought back into service. The B747-400 freighters have in particular seen renewed service such that are only a few now laying idle. However, the fragility of the market ensures that interest in undertaking new conversions is limited although…

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August 16, 2010
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Values of the B757 Suffer Replacement Blues
The values of the B757 are at last beginning to experience a decline as operators look upon the advancing age of the type and consider alternatives. The type has thus benefitted from the number being converted to freighters and limited interest in replacements from traditional operators. However, with the finances…

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August 16, 2010
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Storage & Availability Head In Right Direction For Values
OAG Aviation data shows that the constraints to an improvement in values are being gradually shed such that the imbalance between supply and demand could the latter overtaking the latter. The statistics for July 2010 from OAG Aviation show that the level of availability, in terms of aircraft being actively…

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August 16, 2010
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Dissipating Backlog of 130 Seaters Start to Impact Residuals
A319 & B737-700 Backlogs Fail to Match A320 and -800 Levels Operators of newer narrowbodies have increasingly focused on larger variants at the expense of the A319 and B737-700 such that the backlogs of both smaller variants have long since lost parity with the A320 and B737-800 making it necessary…

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August 16, 2010
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