Boeing B747-200SF Archives

Aircraft Archive: Boeing B747-200SF

Airfreight Fails to Advance As Do Rentals

The fragility of the airfreight market continues to be major concern with load factors in November 2015 being even lower than October. The still weak load factors – which have an impact on the ability to charge more for freight – is partially the result of adding more capacity to…

By: Aircraft Value News

February 8, 2016

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Semi-Annual Jet Aircraft Value Listing

Used Widebody Values Suffer But Aircraft Ratings Largely Stable The demand for new aircraft remains unprecedented with the manufacturers increasing production but values of such new aircraft have failed to rise and even a rise in U.S. interest rates has had little positive effect on lease rentals. The world economy…

By: Aircraft Value News

January 11, 2016

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Freighter Values Still Face Uncertainty

The demand for the larger freighters, particularly those no longer in production, remains sporadic. The values of such aircraft are therefore inevitably weak with further declines to be expected. Chinese industrial growth remains in single digits with little improvement expected in the near term and Japan has slipped back into…

By: Aircraft Value News

November 30, 2015

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Freighter Values Stable Despite China Problems

With China industrial output continuing to waiver there is inevitably likely to be some impact on airfreight but other sources of demand in other regions are keeping demand static. IATA reports that airfreight is climbing though only slowly. Load factors for May 2015 were lower than in May 2014 with…

By: Paul Leighton

August 10, 2015

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Lease Rentals of Modern Examples Stop Falling

Though still sporadic the airfreight market is generally improving with some B747-400Fs being brought back into service and this is allowing lease rentals to register a measure of stability. Though there continues to be a debate over just how much traffic bellyhold capacity is taking away from dedicated freighters the…

By: Paul Leighton

July 13, 2015

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Airfreight Traffic Increases But Surface Dominates

There have been some encouraging news for the airfreight industry as traffic shows improvements. The problems in the U.S. and the demand for high value electronic products continues to allow airfreight traffic to increase but the container ship continues to offer rates that cannot be ignored. The removal of B747-400…

By: Paul Leighton

June 1, 2015

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Lease Rentals Stable

The airfreight market continues to show improvement and this has allowed lease rentals to remain relatively stable. A recent increase is due to the shipment of parts by the Japanese car manufacturers as a result of a recall in the US of millions of cars. The congestion at some seaports…

By: Paul Leighton

May 4, 2015

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Parked Fleet Overshadows Demand

The demand for airfreight capacity is improving slowly but this still has not translated into demand for additional capacity and more specifically the removal of aircraft from storage. If anything the demand remains wedded to new aircraft types such that a few new dedicated freighters have been ordered while used…

By: Aircraft Value News

March 9, 2015

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