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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
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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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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B777-300ER Values Plummet during Covid
The Covid Event has inevitably caused considerable problems for widebodies due to the loss of international travel and the size of the B777-300ER has made it especially vulnerable. The future values of the B777 are naturally dependent to a large extent on the strength of the market. The recession of…

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September 28, 2020
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
The B777-300ER Market Presence. The B777-300ER has proven popular as evidenced by the number of orders but whether it will garner the same degree of enthusiasm on the used market is now being put to the test. There will be some operators who will continue to operate the aircraft until…

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September 28, 2020
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Part Out Pricing Collapses
The values of older A320s and B737NG family members were previously buoyed by the demand for spare parts, notably the engines, landing gears, avionics and APU but with so many now in storage and being cannibalized by existing operator, demand has plummeted and with it pricing. The fall in spare…

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September 28, 2020
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Values of Newer Narrowbodies Start to Improve
Lower Storage Levels Allow Modest Rise in Values from April Depths The values of the newer narrowbodies have started to emerge from the depths of the recession but the process of recovery will be slow such that achieving parity with pre-Covid Event values will still take three to four years,…

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September 28, 2020
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