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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Turboprop Rentals Stable After Weakness
The market for turboprops is something of a conundrum. On the one hand, the domestic and short haul sectors have been able to recover that much sooner than other sectors but at the same time the propensity for air travel, the limited leisure industry and the absence of business travel…

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October 12, 2020
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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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B717 Values Finally Reflect Reality
The B717 is facing new market realities due to the Covid Event. For so many years the vulnerability of the type was masked by the appetite from one or two operators but no longer. The veil has been lifted and the real level of demand in terms of the wider…

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October 12, 2020
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Aircraft Asset Assessment - The B717
Market Presence. Cobham, Delta, Hawaiian, and Volotea are the only operators of the B717. The lack of success for the B717 has little to do with its performance and capability. The ruggedness of the design made it ideal for short haul operations. In-service experience demonstrated that efficiency was better than…

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October 12, 2020
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A330-200 Values Fail to Advance Due to Excess Storage Levels
The values and lease rentals of the A330-200 were discounted to a considerable degree at depths of the current downturn in April due to the Covid Event but while there has been some improvement, with only 35 percent of the fleet active, there is little evidence to suggest that an…

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October 12, 2020
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Lower Net Pricing of New Aircraft Prompting Interest from Ryanair
While the large number of aircraft in storage and under-utilized is causing operators around the world to contract operations and park swathes of aircraft, Ryanair looks likely to announce a major order for the B737-10 taking advantage of the discounting that is now available for new aircraft in the short…

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September 28, 2020
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Regional Jet Lease Rentals Remain Weak
There continues to be a perception that operators are moving down to regional jets in order to more match capacity with demand but while some existing operators are indeed returning regional jets to service ahead of mainline jets, there is no clear indication that there has been rush to acquire…

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September 28, 2020
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Values of Business Jets Falter
Despite the effects of Covid, the number of business jets delivered in the second quarter increased contrasting with the fall in used values of the larger examples. In the second quarter of 2020 GAMA reported that there were 130 deliveries of business jets compared with the 114 of the first…

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September 28, 2020
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