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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A380
Lessors Seek to Minimize Widebody Reconfiguration Costs
Costs Can Be Contained by Advanced Planning The lessors have always tended to shy away from leasing the larger widebodies because of the more limited remarketing opportunities and the sometimes substantial reconfiguration costs and extended timescales when moving aircraft between lessees. The narrowbodies usually require little reconfiguration not least because…

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By: Aircraft Value News
March 19, 2018
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A380 Historical Trend Shows Recent Fall in Lease Rentals
Seeking to place used A380s is now in full swing due to the disposal of some units by Singapore Airlines but finding lessees has been difficult and suggested rental levels can be variable. The A380 has been in service for more than a decade although not many were delivered in…

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By: Aircraft Value News
February 19, 2018
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Airbus List Prices Rise By Only 2 Percent
Discount Now Nudges 60 Percent The rise in list prices continues even as new net pricing mostly stagnates as the product line continues to undergo its most significant transition in more than a generation. The rise in Airbus list prices equates to two percent across all aircraft models, regardless of…

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By: Aircraft Value News
February 19, 2018
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A380 Values Earn Respite With Emirates Order
The commitment from Emirates to order additional A380s represents a reprieve for the program and perhaps allows values to escape from a sustained precipitous fall that has been in evidence more recently. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) comes as both Airbus and Emirates were aware of the damage being done…

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By: Aircraft Value News
February 5, 2018
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Semi-Annual Jet Aircraft Value Listing
Values of Outgoing Widebodies Weaken With B777-200ER Vulnerable The values of widebodies in the process of being replaced by new types are experiencing further weakness as supply still outstrips demand despite above trend growth. The demand for leased narrowbody aircraft continues to rise with the lessors failing to satisfy demand…

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By: Aircraft Value News
January 8, 2018
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Effect of Possible A380 Production Cessation Started to be Assessed
Pressure Mounts For New Order Announcements There has a clear expectation, partly based on emanations from Airbus itself, that there would be further A380 order announcements during the course of 2017 and, even though there still exists such a possibility rather than a probability, such absence is increasingly making it…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 11, 2017
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Widebody Lease Rentals Weaker Than Expected
With traffic still being above the long term trend and a strong backlog for most widebodies, lease rentals would also be expected to be high but such is the availability from lessors and retention of older widebodies due to lower fuel prices, that rentals are relatively low. Secondary leasing of…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 11, 2017
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Aircraft Liquidity Still Fails Widebodies
The liquidity of aircraft represents a significant factor in determining the values of existing types but can also illustrate the potential for types currently held in high regard. There are few types that have the highest rating in the period 2011-2017. The liquidity seeks to reflect how easy it is…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 11, 2017
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