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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
Residual Values of “In Production” Aircraft Stable in Next Three Years
While there is much focus on the decline in values over the last six months, there is a growing expectation of virtual stability and even improvement for values of aircraft in production in the next three years as the market makes extraordinary efforts to balance supply with demand. The extent…

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August 31, 2020
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“Phoney War” Comes to Close for Lessors
The market for even newer narrowbodies remains dire with MAX orders being cancelled in their hundreds, dozens of customers seeking to defer deliveries, and lessors being deseiged by requests for lease rental deferals. To a large extent the worst is yet to come for lessors. While lessors have thus far…

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August 31, 2020
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Regional Jet Values Struggle
There continues to be some discussion regarding the validity of regional jets during this downturn. There are some who point to the widespread use of the E175 in particular as an indicator of how useful regional jets are in this situation. However, the E175 is located in the U.S. where…

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August 31, 2020
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Aircraft Asset Assessment The B747-8I
Market Presence. The development of the B747-8I improved the operating economics of the type. Airbus indicates that the A380 currently offers a 15-20 percent efficiency improvement over the B747-400. The larger -8I made the differential much more marginal. Indeed, Boeing cited that the trip cost of the -8I over the…

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August 31, 2020
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"Value" of New Aircraft Set To Rise in Coming Years Aiding Used Values
The “value” of new aircraft can be expected to experience a rapid increase in the coming years although it will take some four to five years before the value of a new A320neo matches that of a pre-Covid aircraft. The “value” of a new aircraft differs from the net price…

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August 17, 2020
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Widebody Values Plunge
The fall in the values of widebodies has been precipitous and significant. While the market has experienced downturns before, the global nature of the crisis, coupled with the specific and long lasting effect on aviation, has meant that the widebodies have suffered the greatest declines. The values of widebodies will…

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August 17, 2020
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Turboprop Values Experience Variety of Fortunes
The market for turboprops in the Covid era is experiencing different factors, some very much positive, but this has not prevented some values from falling. As turboprops fulfil mostly domestic or regional duties, the Covid even would seem not to have impacted services to the same extent as international routes.…

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August 17, 2020
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Pressure on Lease Rates Becoming More Evident
Lessors Face Ever More Requests for Rental Reductions / Deferrals The operating lease bastion, only recently seeming to be impregnable, faces the prospect of being breached as more lessees seek changes to existing leases compounded by the inability to trade out of assets as revenues falter and levels of return…

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August 17, 2020
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