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ISTAT Audience Split On Short Term Value Trend
Values Seen as Remaining Stable or Rising The March 2023 ISTAT Conference in San Diego saw a return to something akin to normal albeit in the midst of a market that is still suffering the aftereffects of the pandemic in terms of shortages and lesser traffic but which is also…

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March 27, 2023
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Environmental Issues Accelerate Greater ESG Interest from Lenders
The ISTAT Conference in San Diego highlighted the growing impact of environmental compliance on aviation but noted the difficulty in directly reducing the industry’s footprint on carbon emissions. Rob Morris of Cirium, in the keynote Macro Economic Update, noted the problems of being Netzero by 2050. However, as of 2021,…

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March 27, 2023
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IATA Traffic Highlights Appraisers Supply & Demand Conundrum
The Appraisers Panel at ISTAT noted supply and demand was a principal consideration in determining the value of individual aircraft types but thus far, traffic recovery lags behind 2019 levels suggesting that the values of some aircraft types should not be rising or even remaining stable. The IATA traffic figures…

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March 27, 2023
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A330-300 Values & Lease Rentals Far From Robust
Some forty-four percent of the audience at the ISTAT Conference in San Diego indicated that values of the A330-300 had the opportunity to rise during the course of 2023 but as yet some lessors are preferring to extend leases at comparatively low rates rather than risk remarketing at the moment.…

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March 27, 2023
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A380 Value Prospects Remain Limited
There has been much speculation as to the surge in demand is causing operators to reconsider their A380 fleets with some anticipating a reversal in fortunes such that values may rise - rather than fall. The capacity of the A380 is such that in the face of a pilot shortage,…

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March 27, 2023
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Lease Rates Move Up
The shortage of newer aircraft and interest rate hikes are serving to increase lease rentals of some narrowbodies but the amount of capacity is still greater than demand. The demand for newer aircraft types is greater than the number available. This imbalance is being exacerbated by the problems with the…

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March 27, 2023
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Values of Newer Aircraft Continue to Rise
The surge in demand for international travel appears to have taken operators by surprise even though this was predicted in 2021 and as such there has been a delay to restoring services. The issue for airlines is not all however, of their own making. The delivery rate for widebodies has…

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March 27, 2023
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Values of B777-200 Were Never Destined for Greatness
Even when Boeing launched the B777-200A and promoted its attributes, there was already a sense that values would fail to match the residual value strength of the B777-200B/ER. Many – at least 40 out of the 88 that were delivered - B777-200s have been scrapped or placed into storage although…

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March 27, 2023
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Aircraft Asset Assessment - B777-200
Market Presence. The B777-200 has experienced the fate of most initial variants of a new model –marginalization within the first decade of service entry. This should provide some pause for thought when considering other newer widebodies. The difference for the -200 lay with the expectation that such an outcome could…

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March 27, 2023
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Whatever Happened to B767-400 Values?
The B767-400 is an aircraft type for which values have been largely ignored but just how values have changed over time provides an important indication of how other types of similar disposition may fare. The B767-400 is a member of Boeing’s “B” club in being a marginalized variant of an…

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March 27, 2023
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