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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A330-300
Widebody Lease Rates Achieve Stagnation
Usually the term of stagnation confers negative connotations on an aircraft type. However, in the context of the torrid market conditions stagnation is positive, potentially signaling the start of an improvement in fortunes. The market for newer widebodies is improving although yet again there continues to be concern over the…

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April 12, 2010
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B777-300ER Enhancements Will Create Differential in Values
Just as the values of early A320s are faring worse than those A320s being built today, then so too will values of early B777s falter as Boeing enhances the type. The development of the A350 is well underway and Boeing is facing a tough choice. The B777 needs to be…

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March 29, 2010
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6 Percent Rise In List Prices Contrasts With Falling Net Prices
First List Price Rise in Two Years The near six percent rise in Airbus list prices between 2008 and 2010 contrasts sharply with low rates of consumer inflation and further distances list prices from net prices. After hiking list prices between 2007 and 2008 by nearly five percent in response…

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February 15, 2010
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Virgin Switch Highlights End Game for A340 Values
Single Digit Backlog Will Prevent Value Recovery With Virgin Atlantic Airways having switched six remaining orders for the A340-600 to the A330-300, the backlog for the A340-500 and -600 amounted to no more than seven aircraft as of the end of 2009, thereby pointing to further erosion of values. Virgin…

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February 1, 2010
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Widebody Values Now Have Potential to Rise
The market is likely to need time to recover but for some widebodies the worst may be over. While there is no indication of a rapid thaw, the prospect of further falls has receded – except for perhaps the B747-400 which may fall victim to JAL restructuring. Values are expected…

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February 1, 2010
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Last Delivery of B747-400 Highlighted by Depressed Values CRJ200 Values Face Renewed Pressure as Mesa Falters MD80 Acquisition Fails to Turn Type Into Asset Cargo Traffic For 2009 Experiences Major Fall But Improvement Evident Widebody Lease Rates Continu
Values of B747-400 & -400Fs Approach Low Point The delivery of the last B747-400 – a -400ERF – in late 2009 signals the end of an era as well as highlighting a considerable deterioration in the value of both the passenger and freighter versions over the course of the last…

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January 18, 2010
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Widebody Lease Rates Continue to Stumble
The bottom for widebody lease rentals is fast approaching although the Northern Hemisphere winter may yet see some further problems which will undermine the ability of lessors to hike rates. The lease rentals of widebodies have been bloodied over the last eighteen months by low interest rates and rising availability…

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January 18, 2010
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B777-200
Market Presence. The B777-200 has experienced the fate of most initial variants of a new model –marginalization within the first decade of service entry. This should provide some pause for thought when considering the B787. The difference for the -200 lay with the expectation that such an outcome could be…

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January 18, 2010
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