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Editorial: The forgotten winner
17 May 2010
The Continental and United airlines merger is good for airlines and secondary aircraft investors and could force aircraft values to drop.
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New York Airfinance Conference 2010
The merger between Continental and United is good for US airlines. They will be able to reduce capacity and start to improve their fleets with new deliveries. But it is also good for secondary aircraft investors.
This could be the event that forces aircraft values to drop. At the New York Airfinance conference, Klaus Heinneman noted that aircraft prices have not been distressed. He added that the distressed aircraft prices that the industry was expecting in 2009 never really came. Actually, there were very few bargains out there.
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