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Aircraft Archive: Bombardier
Improvement in Corporate Jet Values Focuses on Larger Aircraft
The prices of corporate jets, according to JP Morgan, for pre-owned aircraft are still down by between 26 and 35 percent compared to their peak of late 2008 but some sectors have recently shown an improvement. The number of new orders being placed continues to fall short of production such…

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September 27, 2010
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Differing Specification of A350-900 May Confuse Values
The introduction of the A350-800, the second variant of the A350 that will enter service, is already set to become the point at which the weight of the first variant – the -900 – could be reduced. Just as the values of the initial variants of the B787-8 are being…

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September 27, 2010
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Widebody Lease Rates Rising
Air traffic continues to increase and more importantly so does premium traffic. The demand for widebodies continues to grow as passengers return to the market in numbers. The Asian segment shows notable growth. Operators depend on premium traffic for their profitability on the long haul sectors and demand in this…

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September 27, 2010
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Larger Regional Jets See Value Improvement
While the values of the 50 seat regional jets remain in the doldrums those of the larger variants are seeing a modest increase. The 70+ seaters may not be securing the quantity of orders desired by the manufacturers but there remains sufficient activity in the used market as to provide…

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September 27, 2010
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Data Points Continue to Underline Potential Value Recovery
Traffic, Yields, Profits All Up While any discernible improvement in values of most modern passenger aircraft is not expected until next year the basic building blocks underpinning such rises are nearly all showing the necessary positive trends. The July traffic figures from IATA, which do not include all operators, continue…

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September 13, 2010
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U.S. Becomes Source of Demand for Older Aircraft But Values Still Decline
The U.S. continues to be an important source of demand for older aircraft but acquisition fails to be in sufficient quantity as to prevent a further fall in values. In the 1990s, in the midst of the downturn, the surfeit of older aircraft types were often forecast as heading for…

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September 13, 2010
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Values of Superjet 100 Start to be Calculated
The sustained development and on-going Russian/Western certification of the Sukhoi Superjet 100, together with the expansion of the order book, is now dictating that values should be placed on the aircraft. To date placing values on Soviet and then Russian aircraft has been something of an irrelevant exercise. Even the…

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September 13, 2010
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B777-200F Values Nearly Return to Pre-Recession Levels
While values of passenger aircraft are struggling to emerge from the recession those of freighter aircraft are already experiencing an improvement. For more than twelve months between August 2008 and September 2009, airfreight experienced record falls. Inevitably, with so many freighter aircraft lying idle, values in the middle of 2009…

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September 13, 2010
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