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| 11.23.2009 |
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Lessors Sustain “20” Percent Margin
Lessors Shrug Off 30 Percent Decline in Rentals The current crisis in aviation continues but lessors to date have managed to largely sidestep the two worst effects of a downturn that impact lessors – repossession and renegotiation of rates – thereby...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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Half to Full Life Maintenance Adjustment Continues to Confuse Values
Values of aircraft are increasingly being adjusted to reflect a maintenance status other than the traditional half life. The market has become dominated by leases and finance agreements that require lessees and borrowers to return aircraft in full life...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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Newer Aircraft Favored As Airfreight Provides First Indication Of Recovery
Airfreight is usually the first segment of the industry to indicate a recovery – and a recession – and this cycle is no different with fragile but discernible improvements in traffic levels such that demand for capacity will start to emerge once more in...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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Rates Reach Trough
With lease rentals having already fallen so far, there is little opportunity to fall further. The older widebodies may be among the least desirable of types but lessors cannot keep on lowering rentals to stimulate demand. Instead, sometimes there has to be...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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Low Point for Narrowbody Values Approaching
The values of the more modern narrowbodies have experienced a virtually unprecedented decline over the course of the last two years. Having experienced such a fall, there are likely to be lesser declines in the near future. However, an improvement is not...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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The End of the Line for the Leviathan
There are now only 36 -300s remaining in service and it is little wonder that values are at rock bottom levels. The problems experienced by many international carriers since the late 1990s has left the -300 isolated and vulnerable. In the late 1980s the...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
The B747-300 Market Presence. The -300 represented a means for Boeing to stimulate new sales of the B747 during the development of the much more versatile -400 while also validating the concept of the stretched upper deck. Today the -300 has moved away from...
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| 11.23.2009 |
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Corporate Jet Values Seek to Overcome Dramatic Fall in Deliveries
The values of corporate jets appear to be stabilizing after months of declining in the face of adverse press and weak economic conditions. The number of deliveries of corporate jets as reported by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) for the...
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| 11.09.2009 |
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Fleet Contractions Continue To Undermine Values
Major Carriers Continue to Shed Capacity The contraction of fleets around the world continues as operators drop unprofitable routes and seek to balance supply with demand. The number of aircraft in storage, parked, and being advertised continues to rise...
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Effect of High Production Placed Into Context
The fall in net order placements for the first nine months of 2009 makes for dismal reading and serves to underline the difficulties being faced by operators. For the first nine months of 2009 a total of 408 orders were placed compared with 1,618 in the same...
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| 11.09.2009 |
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Asking Prices for Aircraft Continue to Show Optimism
Despite the surfeit of adverse news, there continues to be trading activity such that the market is far from illiquid, contrasting perhaps with the months immediately following September 2001. A 1991 A300-600 is being advertised for $11 million, which is...
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| 11.09.2009 |
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Smaller Regional Jet Values Continue to Falter
In the period 2001-2002 regional jets experienced relatively minor discounting but with this downturn the effects are mainstream. The recession is affecting all sectors and while new regional jets continue to be delivered, there remains the problem of placing...
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| 11.09.2009 |
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Freighter Values Face Sustained Pressure
The decline in freight traffic is virtually unparalleled and latest figures still show falls when compared to traffic levels of September 2008, a month which itself showed the effects of the recession. Values have declined significantly, much more than for...
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Dash 8-400 Values Remain Steady
The now relative high price of fuel has fuelled the demand for turboprops, not least the Dash8Q-400 and in contrast to the values of jets, those of the more modern turboprops have achieved notable stability. The market for turboprops remains strong. There are...
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
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| 11.09.2009 |
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The Dash 8-400
Market Presence. As a turboprop the Dash8-400 was previously inevitably tarnished by the general perception that the age of the turboprop has been consigned to history. The incidents involving the landing gears caused values to temporarily falter. The view...
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Residuals of 70-90 Seat Regional Jets Need to Be Aware of New Powerplant
The target date of 2015 for a new engine capable of powering 70-90 seat regional jets has considerable implications for residual values of the current 70-90 seat aircraft, specifically the CRJ700 and E-170. GE is developing a major upgrade to the CF34...
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| 10.26.2009 |
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Values of Older Aircraft Unlikely to Recover
Values of Newer Aircraft Expected To See Some Improvement by 2011 With the deepest point of the current recession for aircraft values expected to occur during the winter of 2009/2010, the focus of attention is now on which aircraft types will manage to stage...
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| 10.26.2009 |
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Second Delay to Service Entry of B747-8F Does Little for Values
The second delay to the service entry of the B747-8F should offer some respite for the beleaguered freighter market given the mammoth capacity of the new aircraft but such is the over-capacity in this sector that values of freighter remain fragile and...
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| 10.26.2009 |
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MRJ Values Moves Out of Shadows To Rival Embraer/Bombardier
The capture of a major international order by Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) represents a turning point for the program such that the new type could impact the residuals of current Embraer and Bombardier offerings while enhancing prospects for its own future...
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