Aircraft Value News [May 22, 2023] -

Issue: May 22, 2023

Ryanair B787-10’s Base Price at Possibly “Below $45 Million”

Order Conditions Far Different from then Mega-Order of 2002 The placement of an order for up 300 B787-10s by Ryanair is likely to have seen a significant discount but not at much as Ryanair would have wished to have seen. Ryanair has been a long standing, loyal Boeing customer. Even…

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May 22, 2023

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Rolls-Royce Engine Hours Metric Sees Boost for Widebody Values

With Rolls-Royce indicating that the long-term service agreements reached 83 percent of 2019 flying hours during the period to end April 2023 clearly indicates that the market for widebodies is improving, thus allowing values of at least newer aircraft types to move up. The figures from Rolls-Royce suggest that at…

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May 22, 2023

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Production Issues Force Values Higher

The continuing issues impacting the delivery rate of the A320neo and B737MAX families are continuing to see values of newer aircraft types climb but such demand needs to be seen in the context of still large number of older parked aircraft. There has to be a recognition that there is…

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May 22, 2023

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Freighter Rates Start to Suffer

Weaker airfreight continues to weigh heavily on freighter rates, not least because some operators are now having to park surplus capacity. The opening up of China and Asia means that ever more lower hold cargo capacity on passenger aircraft is being placed back into service at a time when the…

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May 22, 2023

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Values of the -8I Fail to Improve

The market for the B747-8I was never going to be substantial with Boeing themselves predicting that the market for Very Large Aircraft would be limited in the 21st Century but there have been very occasions when the values of a type have collapsed with no prospect of improvement. In the…

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May 22, 2023

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Aircraft Asset Assessment - The B747-91

Market Presence. The development of the B747-8I improved the operating economics of the type. Airbus indicated that the A380 currently offers a 15-20 percent efficiency improvement over the B747-400. The larger -8I made the differential much more marginal. Indeed, Boeing cited that the trip cost of the -8I over the…

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May 22, 2023

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Whatever Happened to B777-300 Values?

The -300 has considerable capacity but lacks the range of the -300ER and as such values have always failed to inspire and today values are at scrap levels. The operator base has always been limited with only 60 ever having been built. The last order to be placed was when…

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May 22, 2023

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