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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Age & Product Transition Take Their Toll on Rentals
The market for regional jets is not as buoyant as it once was because of the transition in the product line and due to lease expirations. The older Embraer products, notably the E170 and E190/E195, are exposed as a flurry of examples are being released by existing operators. This process…

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February 18, 2019
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
CRJ700 Market Presence. There are approximately 330 CRJ700s in service with 30 operators. The majority, 276 or 84 percent, are located in the U.S. Asia and Pacific have only 27 units or eight percent of the market. The majority – or nearly a 100 aircraft - are located with Skywest…

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February 18, 2019
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Airbus Investigates Replacement for A320neo & A350 Re-engining
Residuals Need to Reflect Changing Product Line in Long Term Residual value projections rarely assume that the status quo will be maintained over a 15-25 time horizon and as such market based forecasts will expect that current models will be upgraded and indeed, replaced. Market based forecasts are constantly anticipating…

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January 21, 2019
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Values of Older Widebodies Stutter
The values of mid age widebodies continue to suffer as the issue of value convergence takes hold and as production of outgoing models looms such as the A330ceo and B777. The arrival of new products and the divesting of older types is contributing to the lack luster nature of the…

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January 21, 2019
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Prices of New A320s Hardly Changed in 20 Years
The value of a new A320ceo (low gross weight, non sharklet, no SpaceFlex) at less than $42 million is virtually the same as 20 years ago. When entering service in 1988 the value of a new A320 approximated just over $30 million. The value of a new A320 increased rapidly…

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January 21, 2019
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Values of A319 Continue to Taper Down
The historical trend for values of the A319 initially showed some relative resilience but since 2009 have continued to slide down even if the rate of fall has slowed for the older examples in recent years. The value of the A319 in 1998 was approximately $35 million and because the…

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January 21, 2019
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Some Anxiety But Rates Remain Unchanged
The month of November should be a peak time for airfreight given the run up to Christmas but there was only a modest change improvement through to November 2018. The demand for airfreight has slowed in the last few months but thus far this has not resulted in any significant…

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January 21, 2019
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
B747-400F Market Presence. The B747-400F was originally developed in the 1990s but the first example destined for Air France had to be parked for two years before it was delivered to Cargolux due to the downturn that was impacting the market in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. However,…

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January 21, 2019
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