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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A320
Freighter Values Remain Vulnerable
Just as summer in the Northern Hemisphere represents the opportunity make money to tide operations over the leaner off peak months, so too do the months leading up to the year provide a means for freight operators to fill their holds. The run up to Christmas festivities generates a considerable…

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By: Aircraft Value News
September 15, 2008
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Profitability of Lessors At Peak
ILFC Expects Lease Rentals to Weaken Lessors, in continuing to post substantial profits, demonstrates that the market still has considerable flexibility before reliving the turmoil of the early 1990s and post 2001. Engine leasing has become a popular form of leasing in recent years as financial institutions appreciate the ability…

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By: Aircraft Value News
September 1, 2008
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Values of Newer Aircraft Start to Falter
To date the principal focus of the effects of the downturn have focused on the older generation aircraft but as operators face every tougher conditions, the weakness in values has begun to spread to newer types. Gaps have begun to appear in delivery schedules which may allow some operators to…

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By: Aircraft Value News
September 1, 2008
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CRJ200ER Problems Mount
The considerable demand for the CRJ200ER in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade was mostly fuelled by artificial demand in the form of scope clauses. Instead of an orderly change to larger gauge equipment, the rapid transformation of the market structure has laid bare the underlying…

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By: Aircraft Value News
September 1, 2008
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easyJet Switch to Larger Gauge Signals More General Upsizing
The little heralded switch of existing A319 orders for the larger A320 underlines the severity of the market for the low cost carriers and the increasing propensity to reduce costs by increasing the size of aircraft. easyJet has opted to change 25 existing A319 orders for A320s. Nine A320s are…

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By: Aircraft Value News
September 1, 2008
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Values of Early A320s Weaken As Operators Seek Younger Examples
Production of the A320 stretches back for 20 years and operators are increasingly conscious of the advantages that more modern examples offer. Rising maintenance costs associated with operating older equipment are evident. At nearly 20 years of age the second D check will be approaching. Older engines face more frequent…

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By: Aircraft Value News
August 18, 2008
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Rentals Face Mixed Pressures
The lease rentals of modern narrowbodies continue to face a number of pressures. One the one hand the lessors are appreciative of the still strong demand for more modern aircraft but lessees are also aware of the increasing fragility of the market. With the potential for lease rental weakness, lessors…

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By: Aircraft Value News
August 18, 2008
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Narrowbody Lease Rentals Face Testing Times
Rates for Older Aircraft Continue to Decline The lease rentals for narrowbodies continue to face a myriad of contrasting pressures with the newer equipment in particular seeking to marry the conflicting issues of increased demand and more expensive finance with the problems being faced by operators and weaker traffic. The…

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By: Aircraft Value News
August 4, 2008
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