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Aircraft Archive: Boeing B777-200ER
Airbus Investigates Replacement for A320neo & A350 Re-engining
Residuals Need to Reflect Changing Product Line in Long Term Residual value projections rarely assume that the status quo will be maintained over a 15-25 time horizon and as such market based forecasts will expect that current models will be upgraded and indeed, replaced. Market based forecasts are constantly anticipating…

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January 21, 2019
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Transitioning Product Line Impacts Values of Outgoing Models
Demand Insufficient to Hide Vulnerability of Types Coming to End of Production Demand for aircraft, as evidenced by higher than trend traffic and an extensive – record - backlog, would seem to suggest that values for nearly all types should be rising but the process of replacement is taking its…

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November 12, 2018
AVN
The Last Decade Has Not Favored B777-200ER Values
The last decade has not been kind to the -200ER and values have experienced a particularly significant fall in the last five years. When the B777-200ER entered service as the B777-200B and then the B777-200IGW in the mid 1990s, the value of a new example amount to approximately $110 million.…

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November 12, 2018
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Change in Aircraft Ratings Highlights Move to Newer Equipment
The latest ratings assigned to aircraft have been released by AVAC (www.aircraftvalues.net) and generally reflect the declining appeal of some types in the medium term. Aircraft Ratings for aircraft were created by AVAC some 15 years ago becoming the standard and subsequently adopted by the appraisal, investment and regulatory community…

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November 12, 2018
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Maintenance Reserves Need to Account for Realistic D Check Costs
Maintenance reserves charged by lessors on both narrowbody and widebody aircraft need to be adequately reflect the real cost of such major maintenance. While the cost of performing the major airframe maintenance on aircraft pales against the costs associated with overhauling the engines and replacing their LLPs, the cost of…

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October 29, 2018
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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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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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B777-200ER Values Continue To Nosedive
Remarketing Focussed on Leasing to Second Tier Operators The fortunes of the B777-200ER continue to falter as ever more newer B787-9 and A350s which are acting just as much as replacement rather than growth capacity for some operators. As aircraft are retired from primary operators, lessors have to place aircraft…

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September 17, 2018
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