Boeing looking for homes for "troubled teen" Dreamliners

[markis10]

Barring a global aerospace slump, Boeing should be able to place the reworked 787s with bargain-hunting airlines seeking twin-aisle jets to fly shorter, densely traveled routes, said Douglas Kelly, senior vice president for asset valuation at Chantilly, Virginia-based aviation consultant Avitas.


“Asia seems like exactly the right place,” said George Ferguson, senior analyst with Bloomberg Industries in Skillman, New Jersey, especially if Boeing targeted sales to potential customers of the re-engined A330 contemplated by Airbus Group NV. “You can see it as a competitor to the A330.”


Buyers would probably pay less than half the current $211.8 million list price of the 787-8 version, Kelly said. The 787 teens have a market value of $115 million each for a single-unit or small lot sale, according to Avitas estimates. Airlines will probably demand 10 percent to 15 percent discounts, bringing the price closer to $100 million, Kelly said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...eek-buyers-for-1-1-billion-of-early-787s.html

 

[TomVexille]

Boeing have been looking for buyers of those ever since they decided to give NH (and some of the other early adopters) new build aircraft instead of the reworks to keep them happy

 

[markis10]

Boeing have been looking for buyers of those ever since they decided to give NH (and some of the other early adopters) new build aircraft instead of the reworks to keep them happy

These are not the NH ones, LAN took them, but rather Lion Air and Transaero cancellations as well as Rwanda Air. Would make a reasonable purchase for VA to run to PER.

 

[TomVexille]

These are not the NH ones, LAN took them, but rather Lion Air and Transaero cancellations as well as Rwanda Air. Would make a reasonable purchase for VA to run to PER.

I was under the impression that the Transaero ones were originally bound for NH?

 

[markis10]

I was under the impression that the Transaero ones were originally bound for NH?

Your right, they were all ANA,LAN and Royal Air Maroc and then swapped to Lion etc.

 

[TomVexille]

Your right, they were all ANA,LAN and Royal Air Maroc and then swapped to Lion etc.

So I'm not going crazy... (at least too much )

Totally agree about VA using them for PER though. AA could have also use some for their JFK-LAX run but they went with the A321.