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Aircraft Archive: McDonnell Douglas
Rentals Start to Show Premium Once More
The leasing of regional jets – notably outside of the U.S. – has traditionally elicited a premium when compared to mainline jets. The regional jet market has a lesser number of lessors, reducing the degree of competition. With fewer lessors, the lessees are faced with higher rentals. The vanilla operating…

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September 13, 2021
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Freighter Values Remain Resilient
The airfreight market continues to hold much promise not least because of the still limited return of international passenger flights with China, Australia and New Zealand for example all seeing a virtual shutdown in international passenger flights until 2022. When compared to July 2019, airfreight traffic is actually more than…

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September 13, 2021
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Desperate Times for A380 Values
Although there may be an attempt to view the latest announcements by some A380 operators of their intent to return at least some of their aircraft to service and as Emirates indicates that it will advance the delivery of its last three aircraft, the collapse in values precipitated, initially by…

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September 13, 2021
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Aircraft Asset Assessment — A380
Market Presence. The deterioration in used A380 values has already been significant partly because of the fall in the value of a new A380 but more specifically due to the Covid Event. To a large extent, there has already been some readjustment to residual values because of the slowdown in…

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September 13, 2021
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Improvement in Narrowbody Lease Rentals Focus on Newer Types
Legacy of Covid Event is Expansion of Operator Base Once Again The market is recovering as vaccinations increasingly become the requirement for travellers even as some international markets such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan and many others restrict or ban non-essential international travel. A myriad of new start ups have…

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August 30, 2021
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Heavy Business Jet Pricing Sees Some Decline
The market for the large business jets has seen some volatility since the start of the Covid Event but reductions in some types is evident. The average asking price of heavy jets has increased slightly in recent months (source AMSTAT). Asking prices are inevitably dependent on the aircraft type with…

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August 30, 2021
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Turboprop Values Start Recovery Phase
The values of even the newest turboprops – not that there are that many that are in production – fell significantly because of the Covid Event but as the market has shown at least some signs of recovery so too have the values of the youngest aircraft begun to rise,…

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August 30, 2021
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Freighter Values Continue to Rise Due to Capacity Constraints
But Freighter Values Remain Vulnerable to Re-Adjustment The market for freighters is perhaps at its strongest for decades and this boom has seen values not only resist the collapse seen in many passenger types but have instead remained stable or risen. As an example of the buoyancy of the market…

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August 16, 2021
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