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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Widebody Rentals Still Weaker Than Expected
With above trend traffic growth widebody lease rentals should be strong but instead they appear to be weakening. Naturally the replacement cycle is in full swing with the arrival of the B787-9 and A350 in numbers. The B777-9 is ever closer to service entry and the A330neo has just arrived.…

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October 29, 2018
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Aircraft Asset Assessment Embraer E190
Market Presence. With the development of the E2 series of aircraft, Embraer has been actively seeking to sell new aircraft offering considerable incentives in the hope of maintaining production. This has affected the used market making it more difficult to dispose of aircraft coming off lease and seeking to be…

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October 29, 2018
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Two Early Build B737-900ERs Sold Between Lessors
Establishing values of the B737-900ER is likely to be difficult as there are relatively few operators and in view of the predilection for lessors to sell encumbered aircraft between themselves. The operator base of the B737-900ER is not as liquid as it is for many other aircraft types and this…

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October 29, 2018
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Lease Rates Increase for Less Financially Secure Lessees
Fragility of Some Lessees Seeing Premature Return of Aircraft A raft of airline failures – both large and small – in recent years is leading to lessors placing a premium on rentals of aircraft to less financially secure operators. Part of the success of the operating lease industry over the…

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October 29, 2018
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E190 Values Start to Take Note of E2
The 98-passenger Embraer 190 is a member of a family of commercial jets which have now been in service for over a decade. However, in the face of competitors such as the Superjet 100 and the MRJ, the E-Jet family is beginning to show its age, hence the development of…

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October 29, 2018
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B787-8 Set to Lose B Aircraft Rating
Boeing is having to reboot the -8 after having focused on the -9 and -10 perhaps a bit too much but to a large extent it appears that the relative attraction of the -8 is fading as predicted. The B787 may have cost $30 billion to date or even more.…

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October 1, 2018
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Outgoing Widebody Values Suffer
The market for most widebodies continues to be at odds to traffic growth with values for continuing to fall. The arrival of new products and the divesting of older types is contributing to the lack luster nature of the widebody market. The virtual wholesale replacement of the widebody product line…

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October 1, 2018
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
Market Presence. While Boeing sought to capitalize on the delays to the A380 they ignored their own problems with respect to the B787 and then the B747-8. Public relations, customer perceptions and most of all finances, have been adversely affected by the difficulties. The first 65 aircraft required some degree…

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October 1, 2018
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