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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A380
Values of New Aircraft Drop
The values of new aircraft have experienced a significant fall as a direct consequence of the decline in demand, the deferral of deliveries, the production cuts by the manufacturers and the paucity of orders. The price of a new aircraft as paid by customers and the value of a new…

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June 8, 2020
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Lease Rentals of Widebodies Face Uphill Battle
  There can no escaping the magnitude of the decline in widebody rentals nor the difficulty in registering an improvement. The international sector has registered a precipitous fall in demand which is leaving thousands of aircraft idle. Even where services have been restarted, these have been limited in number with…

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May 25, 2020
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Order Cancellations Contribute to Collapse in Used Values
Aircraft manufacturers are scrambling to cope with cancellations and deferral requests from dozens of customers and these have already impacted used values as the value of new aircraft has fallen by up to 35 percent with the A380 falling by nearly 60 percent. There has always been a relationship between…

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May 11, 2020
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Currently Depressed Simulator Values Will See Surge With Recovery
The values of simulators have experienced a considerable drop in recent months as demand has inevitably been impacted but this will likely quickly change with the return of air services albeit subject to a different structure. The demand for simulator space pre-Covid was high as the worlds’ fleet expanded, new…

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April 27, 2020
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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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April 27, 2020
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A380 Values Affected Most by Downturn
Out of an operational fleet of 242 listed by Airbus as of the end of February 2020, there were only 13 A380s in service at the time of writing with every other A380 aircraft listed as being in storage. While a swathe of other aircraft types that are laying idle…

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April 14, 2020
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Distressed Values Becomes Relevant Again
The need for financial institutions to consider asset values should a sale be necessary brings distressed sale discounting to the fore once more. The level of discounting needed to dispose of aircraft on a distressed – or fire sale – had achieved a measure of stability for some more popular…

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April 14, 2020
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Values & Lease Rentals Suffer Catastrophic Fall
Recovery Dependent on Vaccine & Extent of Any Economic Winter Previously values and lease rentals were not regarded as being on the brink of a precipice, but indeed they were, and now values have mostly tumbled into the abyss although some types will be able to clamber out of the…

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March 30, 2020
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