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Aircraft Archive: Bombardier
Values Experience Age Related Decline
The Paris Air Show this week will be the venue for the announcement of another raft of orders from Airbus and other manufacturers further exacerbating the imbalance between supply and demand. While the backlog continues to extend this is no longer having a positive effect on either new or used…

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June 15, 2015
AVN
Turboprop Rentals Remain Profitable
Lease rates remain at sufficient levels to allow lessors to generate the profits they need, sometimes better than those for mainline jets which are being squeezed by competitive pressures. The primary vehicles for vanilla operating leases remain the stalwart favorites of the ATR42/ATR72 and the Dash 8, notably the -300…

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June 15, 2015
AVN
Aircraft Asset Assessment: CRJ1000
Market Presence. The number of orders for the CRJ1000 remains disappointing. By comparison orders for the E190 number 575 with a backlog of some 60 aircraft. There was always expected to be a limited number of orders given the prescriptive nature of scope clauses in the US but with only…

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June 1, 2015
AVN
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…

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June 1, 2015
AVN
Values of Used A319 Expected to Stabilize in Next Few Years
Values of used A319s are continuing to fall even as interest in used examples continues to increase from a number of sources. United Airlines has leased 11 ex-China Southern with V2500s from lessor AerCap starting in 2016. Another 14 may also be acquired in the future. The aircraft are intended…

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June 1, 2015
AVN
Banning of Older Aircraft Expands As Korea Seeks 20 Year Limit
The issue of asset lives continues to be an issue for many owners given that aircraft are portrayed by some as having shorter lives than was previously the case, with the move by many countries to limit the operation of older aircraft contributing to the perception that older aircraft –…

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June 1, 2015
AVN
Ending of B737NG Production in 2018 Creates Residual Value Certainty
The extent of the overlap between B737NG and B737MAX production is likely to be no more than a year such that residual values can be calculated with greater accuracy particularly with respect to the few NGs to be delivered in 2018. Boeing has previously indicated that service entry of the…

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June 1, 2015
AVN
CRJ1000 Values Face Steady Decline
The values of the CRJ1000 are falling in line with expectations as age related issues take hold and the arrival of new products present competitive pressures. The CRJ family has been in existence for more than 20 years but the CRJ1000 was the latest variant having entered service in 2009.…

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June 1, 2015
AVN