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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
Values Fare Better – ie Prices Stop Falling
The market for heavy business jets over the last decade, ever since the heyday of the business jet, has been varied. Initially the large business jets seemed able to avoid the virtual collapse that other business jet categories suffered in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Then as some the…

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October 30, 2017
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Scrap Values for B737NGs Buoyed by Engine Prices
Now that the transition to new narrowbody offerings is taking place then there exists a question mark over whether the scrap values of such aircraft as the A320ceo family and the B737NG can be maintained. To a large extent, the scrap value of an A320 or B737NG remains the engines.…

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October 30, 2017
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Business Jet Values Continue to be Divorced from Historical Trend
The values of corporate aircraft had performed extremely well over the period 1988-2008 with some worth their original purchase price - or more – but the market has since experienced sustained weakness with no return to previous highs, only stability. Even during the recession of the early 1990s, pricing remained…

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October 30, 2017
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A330-200 Lease Rentals Experience Weakness
With the decline in the backlog, the arrival of the A330neo, the preference for the A330-300 and an advancing age profile, then it is little wonder that the lease rentals of the A330-200 should be falling. In the years immediately following service entry in 1998, the A330-200 became favored by…

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October 30, 2017
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Rentals Dependent on Credit & Lease Term
The lease rental for a particular regional jet is not a constant but is dependent on the financial standing of the lessor and the term of the lease. A short term lease will generally see a higher lease rental to compensate the lessor for higher administration costs as well as…

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October 30, 2017
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CRJ Values Could Suffer Amidst Sell-Off Speculation
The tie up between Airbus and CSeries is a significant move and offers the prospect of an improvement in the fortunes of the Canadian product but Bombardier is reportedly seeking to dispose of its CRJ/Dash8 families as well. The unconfirmed reports would make some sense for Bombardier and the potential…

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October 30, 2017
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A330-900 Flies As Values Edge Downwards
No Values for A330-800 As Only Order Under Threat The first flight of A330-900 took place on the 19th October although values of the type may take some time to validate. While the arrival of the re-engined A320neo and B737MAX seemed to herald a new era for the narrowbody segment…

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October 30, 2017
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American Airlines EETC 2017-2 Sees Consistency Among Appraisers
The 23 aircraft comprising the American 2017-2 EETC transaction showed reasonable consistency among the three appraisers although the annual decline in future values again was relatively optimistic. The ISTAT European conference held in Edinburgh in late September highlighted the use of the same appraisers for the EETC and ABS transactions…

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October 16, 2017
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