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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A330-200F
Lease Rentals Stable
The airfreight market continues to show improvement and this has allowed lease rentals to remain relatively stable. A recent increase is due to the shipment of parts by the Japanese car manufacturers as a result of a recall in the US of millions of cars. The congestion at some seaports…

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May 4, 2015
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Parked Fleet Overshadows Demand
The demand for airfreight capacity is improving slowly but this still has not translated into demand for additional capacity and more specifically the removal of aircraft from storage. If anything the demand remains wedded to new aircraft types such that a few new dedicated freighters have been ordered while used…

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March 9, 2015
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: A330-200F
Market Presence. The A330-200F was developed as a means of stimulating additional sales for Airbus widebodies at a difficult time for the European manufacturer and to act as a replacement for the A300-600F which had ended production. By using the main deck cargo door already used on the A300-600F the…

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March 9, 2015
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A330-200F Values Continue to Fall
The oprderbook for the A330-200F has continued to contract which has inevitably impacted values. The A330-200F was first seriously considered in 2001. However, the events of that year forced the postponement of the project. The A330/A340 were originally designed with the future freighter conversion in mind even going as far…

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March 9, 2015
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Airbus List Prices for 2015 Rise by 3.3%
Airbus list prices for 2015 show a rise of nearly 3.3 percent across all aircraft types but the difficulty will be in translating this rise into net base pricing for new orders and in achieving an increase in profitability. The rise in list prices quoted by Airbus are largely an…

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January 26, 2015
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Lease Rentals Start to Strengthen
The airfreight market has shown some consistent improvement over the course of the last few months and this, combined with lower fuel prices, is allowing some measure of stability for lease rentals. IATA reports that the freight traffic for November 2014 increased by 4.2 percent compared to a year ago.…

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January 26, 2015
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Freighter Values Fail to Advance
With so much capacity in the market exemplified by low load factors and given that there remain a large number of freighters parked, it is little wonder that values are failing to match the modest improvement in airfreight traffic. The fall in the price of fuel will provide the opportunity…

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November 17, 2014
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Lease Rentals Still in Doldrums
There continues to be a lag between the improvement in airfreight traffic and any change in freighter lease rentals. IATA reports that the freight traffic for august 2014 increased by 5.1 percent compared to a year ago. This follows July which saw a 6.1 percent rise. Asian and North American…

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October 20, 2014
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