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Aircraft Archive: Bombardier
IATA Traffic Levels Continues To Provide Basis for Lease Rental Recovery
The recovery in traffic levels continues to provide an important foundation for the recovery of lease rentals. February traffic, in terms of RPKs (Revenue Passenger Kilometers) grew by a significant 9.5 percent compared to the same month in 2009 when traffic slumped by more than ten percent, a figure that…

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April 12, 2010
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Availability Levels Belie Real Surplus
The levels of availability continue to show relatively modest levels which can distort the perceived strength – or weakness - of the market. The number of aircraft actively being marketed today would seem to be at lower levels than during the depths of the market in 2002-2003. With a current…

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April 12, 2010
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Post Production A330-200 Freighter Conversion Provides Comfort for Residuals
While the A330-200 is still considered a premier widebody, and likely to remain so through to at least the arrival of the A350, there has to be an appreciation that the type has already been in production for 12 years and that a secondary market will have to be found…

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April 12, 2010
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Widebody Lease Rates Achieve Stagnation
Usually the term of stagnation confers negative connotations on an aircraft type. However, in the context of the torrid market conditions stagnation is positive, potentially signaling the start of an improvement in fortunes. The market for newer widebodies is improving although yet again there continues to be concern over the…

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April 12, 2010
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Regional Jets Seek to Escape Doldrums
The wider economy may be starting to enjoy the benefits of stronger conditions but the regional jet market has yet to register notable orders. Delivery rates have suffered as operators have sought to preserve cash and perhaps even acquire turboprops as a means of achieving better economies of scale. However,…

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April 12, 2010
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Lease Rates Bottom Out
But Long Hike to Recovery Expected Lease rentals – at least of more modern jets – are considered to have reached the trough of the current cycle and are beginning the long haul to recovery after experiencing a significant fall from the peak of late 2007. In the two and…

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March 29, 2010
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Production Rate Increases Likely to Impact Value Recovery
Despite concerns that a higher delivery rate will delay the recovery of values and lease rentals, both Airbus and Boeing have announced an intention to increase production of narrowbodies. The rise in production is at odds with a lack luster orderbook for 2010 from both manufacturers but both cite demand…

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March 29, 2010
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Two Categories of Aircraft See Divergent Value Behavior
Values of aircraft in production and those out of production are experiencing different fortunes such that any recovery of the latter category will be much more muted. While the behavior of out of production aircraft has traditionally differed from those in production, the values of those aircraft out of production…

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March 29, 2010
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