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Aircraft Archive: Bombardier CRJ100ER
CRJ Cutbacks Make for Difficult Times
The cutbacks recently announced by Bombardier with respect to CRJ production highlights the problem of the regional jet market. The regional jet market has traditionally been a more hand to mouth sector whereby not much time elapses between order placement and deliveries. With a notable shortage of orders in recent…

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December 7, 2009
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Older & 50 Seaters Face Difficult Times
There can be no escaping the little appetite for 50 seat regional jets when availability continues to creep upwards. The values of the 50 seaters have continued to experience considerable problems in the face of the loss of traffic and contraction of operations either enforced or voluntary. Passengers using 50…

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August 31, 2009
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Asking Prices Start to Become More Realistic
The much more somber mood of the market is at last translating into more realistic asking prices for most aircraft though there remain some anomalies. The B737-300 is available in quantity such that buyers can take their pick. A 1989 aircraft is priced at $8.5 million while another of the…

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May 25, 2009
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Values Continue to Fall
The lower price of fuel is no match for the decline in traffic in the key North American region. Mexico, at least until recently, was seeking to take advantage of the mounting surplus of regional jets such has been the fall in value over the last eighteen months. The values…

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May 25, 2009
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Lower Fuel Prices May Not Prevent Falls
The much lower price of price of fuel has played a significant role in allowing operators to contemplate retention. The values of the 50 seaters had suffered while those for larger examples remained stable not least because of the concentration in the U.S. and the price of fuel. Whereas the…

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February 16, 2009
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Economic Problems Compound Inefficiency
The smaller regional jets face a double whammy. Relative operating inefficiency, as a consequence of higher fuel pricing, is being exacerbated by increasingly weak economic conditions making even short haul travel less attractive. The values of the 50 seaters have suffered while those for larger examples have remained stable. Should…

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October 13, 2008
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CRJ200ER Problems Mount
The considerable demand for the CRJ200ER in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade was mostly fuelled by artificial demand in the form of scope clauses. Instead of an orderly change to larger gauge equipment, the rapid transformation of the market structure has laid bare the underlying…

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September 1, 2008
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Asking Prices Remain Resilient Despite Market Pressures
The market may be increasingly vulnerable to excess supply but for the moment asking prices remain relatively strong, comparing favorably with values. Two A300-600s of 1984 vintage are being offered for sale by two different companies, one based in Canada and the other in Sri Lanka for $7 million and…

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August 4, 2008
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