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Aircraft Archive: McDonnell Douglas MD11
Values of A340s Face Ever Tighter “Value Convergence”
Even with a more reasonable price of fuel there is speculation that values of the youngest A340-600s may be worth less than $25 million despite costing more than $120 million when delivered less than a decade ago. The concept of Value Convergence – coined by The Aircraft Value Analysis Company…

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April 17, 2017
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Leasing Still Attracting New Players As Rates Mostly Remain Stable
Competition Intensifying Which Could Impact Rentals The profits being secured by the lessors continues to be between 15-20 percent thus underlining the continued relative attraction of aircraft leasing compared other asset classes such as shipping and real estate. The leasing of aircraft continues to increase despite as yet proven speculation…

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March 6, 2017
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Widebody Rentals Achieve Some Stability
The airfreight market is managing to achieve a measure of improvement with traffic increasing by nearly four percent according to data from IATA which is allowing a measure of stability for some freighters. The growth for the world amounted to some 3.8 percent with the Middle East recording the greatest…

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February 20, 2017
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Widebody Rentals Vulnerable But Steady
The airfreight market continues to experience low load factors and fragile yields but traffic for September showed some promise. While the airfreight market continues to remain fragile, there are at least indications of a modest improvement in recent months which has gone some way to alleviating the downward pressure on…

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November 14, 2016
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Some Freighters Remain in Demand
The market for freighters remains fragile at best though there are some types – notably the narrowbodies – that remain in demand. Momentum is building for the conversion of the B737-800 and with lessors having a large number of older examples at low capital cost this means of onward disposal…

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October 31, 2016
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Values of Older A330-300s Continue to Suffer
Values of Newer Examples Also Fall But More By Association The values of the A330-300 remain under scrutiny as the development of the A330neo continues apace but the emphasis of any decline is clearly on the older rather than newer examples. The values of post 2002 A330-300s have also been…

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October 3, 2016
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Widebody Rentals Show Further Deterioration
The lack of demand for international airfreight has much to do with the weaker Chinese market as well as the competition from surface transport. There are however, still some areas that managing to exhibit growth. The narrowbody freighters are enjoying demand as a result of changing shopping habits and a…

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May 16, 2016
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Freighter Values Show No Improvement
Although the narrowbody sector continues to show promise, the dismal economic news from China weighs heavily on the widebody sector such that production of the B747-8F is reduced again. Values of both narrow and widebody freighters are failing to experience any improvement. The load factors being achieved are lower than…

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March 21, 2016
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