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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A380
Opportunities Emerge for More VIP Airliners
The availability of some many commercial aircraft, combined with a lack of appetite and ability to travel on commercial aircraft, means that there could be a rise in the number of aircraft that are selected for conversion to VIP aircraft, particularly as Airbus has already announced a VIP version of…

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October 12, 2020
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A220-500 May Serve As Stop Gap Until Arrival of Hydrogen Model
The prevailing market structure has been rattled by the Covid Event and while the manufacturers may be in the throes of stemming short term losses, there is immense pressure to be proactive in seeking solutions to the changes. Airbus, following on from the French Governments initiative to introduce a more…

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September 28, 2020
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Widebody Rentals Collapse
While the absence of demand for international services essentially makes it impossible to base lease rentals on empirical data points, there can be no disguising just how weak the market is for widebody aircraft with 60 percent of the widebody fleet still inactive as of the first week of September.…

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September 14, 2020
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Appraisers Record Significant Falls Despite Absence of Transaction Data
Two more appraisers have recorded significant falls in values although with the absence of transaction data these remain theoretical. To date there has been a wide divergence of opinion as to the effect of the Covid Event on values with some appraisers indicating negligible impact versus others suggesting thirty percent…

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September 14, 2020
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Some Values Start to Recover as Aircraft Return to Service
At Least Third of Commercial Jets Remain Idle The market is showing signs of improving but there continues to be an ebb and flow as enforcement measures are relaxed and then reinstated thus impacting consumer confidence and forcing operators to cut back capacity once again. With the U.S. domestic market…

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August 31, 2020
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Values of the -8I Collapse
There are few occasions when the values of a type actually collapse but the B747-8I has experienced just such an event due to the Covid Event and the cessation of production. Just as the values of the A380 have experienced a catastrophic fall then so too have those of the…

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August 31, 2020
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Aircraft Asset Assessment The B747-8I
Market Presence. The development of the B747-8I improved the operating economics of the type. Airbus indicates that the A380 currently offers a 15-20 percent efficiency improvement over the B747-400. The larger -8I made the differential much more marginal. Indeed, Boeing cited that the trip cost of the -8I over the…

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August 31, 2020
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"Value" of New Aircraft Set To Rise in Coming Years Aiding Used Values
The “value” of new aircraft can be expected to experience a rapid increase in the coming years although it will take some four to five years before the value of a new A320neo matches that of a pre-Covid aircraft. The “value” of a new aircraft differs from the net price…

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August 17, 2020
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