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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
B737-900ER Values Start to Improve
The market for the larger -900ER has the potential to improve as operators seek larger equipment as a means of reducing seat mile costs. In the spring of 2001, Boeing started studying the possibility of a -900X featuring more range and allowing more seats to be fitted. This necessitated the…

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September 27, 2010
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: B737-900ER
Market Presence. As a member of the B737NG family the fate of the -900ER is somewhat assured. The use of extra fuel tanks provides the range while the extra exits offers operators the necessary capacity to compensate for the higher weight - and cost. The extra tanks, which can be…

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September 27, 2010
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B747-400F Crash Re-Ignites Potential Need for Freighter Modifications
The tragic crash of an UPS B747-400F Freighter may have passed largely unnoticed but the implications for freighter aircraft could be significant. The incident at Dubai involved a fire in the cargo hold prior to the crash. There have been reports that the aircraft was carrying a large amount of…

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September 27, 2010
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Sustained B737NG Production Could Herald Lower Pricing
Used Values Have Potential to be Impacted by Constrained Net Prices With Boeing increasingly averse to developing to a re-engining program to match the proposed NEO – New Engine Option – of Airbus, Boeing may have to resort to lower pricing to maintain production levels. The deliberations of both Airbus…

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September 27, 2010
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Data Points Continue to Underline Potential Value Recovery
Traffic, Yields, Profits All Up While any discernible improvement in values of most modern passenger aircraft is not expected until next year the basic building blocks underpinning such rises are nearly all showing the necessary positive trends. The July traffic figures from IATA, which do not include all operators, continue…

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September 13, 2010
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U.S. Becomes Source of Demand for Older Aircraft But Values Still Decline
The U.S. continues to be an important source of demand for older aircraft but acquisition fails to be in sufficient quantity as to prevent a further fall in values. In the 1990s, in the midst of the downturn, the surfeit of older aircraft types were often forecast as heading for…

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September 13, 2010
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Values of Superjet 100 Start to be Calculated
The sustained development and on-going Russian/Western certification of the Sukhoi Superjet 100, together with the expansion of the order book, is now dictating that values should be placed on the aircraft. To date placing values on Soviet and then Russian aircraft has been something of an irrelevant exercise. Even the…

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September 13, 2010
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B777-200F Values Nearly Return to Pre-Recession Levels
While values of passenger aircraft are struggling to emerge from the recession those of freighter aircraft are already experiencing an improvement. For more than twelve months between August 2008 and September 2009, airfreight experienced record falls. Inevitably, with so many freighter aircraft lying idle, values in the middle of 2009…

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September 13, 2010
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