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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A320NEO
CSeries Pricing Becomes More Competitive After Bail Out
The bailout of Bombardier by the Quebec Government offers the potential for more competitive pricing though such is the scale of the development costs to date that there still exists insufficient margin to compete with the other manufacturers on the more attractive orders, as evidenced by the recent order for…

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May 2, 2016
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ISTAT Conference Sees Continued Appetite for Aircraft Financing
The ISTAT Americas Conference held in Phoenix at the beginning of March, which saw a record attendance of more than 1,750 delegates, was again the venue for an upbeat view of the market with many a deal taking place during the event. The enthusiasm for aircraft financing remains unabated despite…

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March 21, 2016
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CSeries Values Remain Static Despite Air Canada Order
Despite the commitment of Air Canada to order a potential 75 CSeries aircraft and the service entry of in the coming months, the values of the type remain under pressure. The Air Canada commitment for 45 firm orders and 30 options, due for delivery in the 2016-2022 time frame, represents…

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March 7, 2016
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B737MAX9 Value Differential Exhibit Modest Improvement
Limited Difference in Values Between B737-800 & -900ER Maintained with MAX The values of the B737MAX9 – though still some two years away from service entry - are continuing to struggle to create a clear premium over the MAX8 and are still lower than the competing A321neo. The orderbook for…

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February 22, 2016
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Record Backlog Fails to Improve Rentals
With such a substantive and record breaking backlog a rise in lease rentals may be expected but such is the competition among lessors that rates are instead remaining largely stable, aided by the expectation that interest rates will remain low for some time. With the level of leasing steadily increasing…

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February 22, 2016
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Pratt PW1100G Problems Not Likely to Impact Values - Yet
The problems being experienced by Pratt & Whitney with the PW1100G, which has seen Lufthansa becoming the launch operator instead of Qatar, is not likely to have an impact on values of any of the specific airframe/engine combinations - unless consistent and significantly less than average reliability materializes during in-service…

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February 22, 2016
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Lease Rentals of New Products Under Pressure?
The collapse in the price of oil, which may see a partial recovery should the largest producers agree on a production cut, has raised inevitable questions concerning the premium to be applied to lease rentals of the new generation of widebodies and the re-engined narrowbodies. With the A320neo and B737MAX…

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February 8, 2016
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A320ceo Sharklets Still On Trend Despite Fuel Price
The price of fuel may be low but airlines cannot make fleet decisions on short term fluctuations on oil prices and are therefore continuing to invest in new technology such as retrofitting sharklets. The price of jet fuel as of the 11th January 2016 fell to 93 cents a gallon…

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January 25, 2016
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