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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A380
Widebody Values Plunge
The fall in the values of widebodies has been precipitous and significant. While the market has experienced downturns before, the global nature of the crisis, coupled with the specific and long lasting effect on aviation, has meant that the widebodies have suffered the greatest declines. The values of widebodies will…

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August 17, 2020
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Headline Production Rates Fail to Match Deliveries
Dozens of New Aircraft Stored but Not Delivered Both Airbus and Boeing have announced a swathe of production cuts but such is the impact of the Covid Event that these reductions are not happening quickly enough and the result is that dozens of aircraft have been manufactured but not delivered.…

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August 3, 2020
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Covid Event Exerts Negative Pressure on Aircraft Ratings
The Aircraft Ratings for most passenger aircraft have inevitably changed for the worse due to the Covid event even if there is some improvement expected in the latter part of the seven year event horizon. The market for the A320ceo family is already proving more difficult than the pre-Covid event…

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July 20, 2020
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Assumptions
The listing of current and future values is based on the year of build. The essential assumption is that the aircraft are being sold as a single unit and between a willing seller and willing buyer for cash. The high and low figures represent adjustments for offer and sale prices,…

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July 6, 2020
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Values Remain Stable After Collapse, Set for Modest Rise
Flight Numbers Increase But Thousands of Aircraft Remain in Storage With the lowest point of the current crisis having perhaps occurred in April, the restoration of some flights and a very modest increase in passenger numbers points to an improving picture but this has merely prevented values from falling any…

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June 22, 2020
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Demand for Airliner Business Aircraft Could Rise
The use of the airliner type of aircraft could rise in the near term as VVIPs seek to avoid the restrictions imposed on normal flights and because of the availability of more modern aircraft. The demand for airliner jets is expected to increase as the very wealthy seek to ensure…

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June 22, 2020
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Baseline Lease Rental Terms Undergo Fundamental Change
The LRM (Lease Rental Matrix), which determines the average lease length and the adjustment to quoted lease rentals to reflect longer or shorter terms, has seen stability terms as demand eases back in terms of passenger growth. Lease terms can vary considerably and are to a large extent dependent on…

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June 22, 2020
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B787-8 Loses Much of its Shine
With the backlog for the B787-8 now less than 48, a sense of realism started to impact values even before the Covid event. Most new aircraft undergo a honeymoon period in their early years when values remain high due to a lack of availability as well absence of trading activity.…

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June 8, 2020
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