What could NJA order super-mid

[KiddDynomite]

Currently aircraft owners can get 100% first-year depreciation if an airframe is bought AND enters service in 2011.

Thanks for the correction but then that leads to the next question. Why aren't we selling new airplanes like they're going out of style?

 

[BoilerUP]

Thanks for the correction but then that leads to the next question. Why aren't we selling new airplanes like they're going out of style?

Individuals and corporations who need depreciation and have cash are buying new airplanes in situations when same-year deliveries are becoming available. I doubt many manufacturers have a bunch of white tails outside their factories unlike 2009 for this very reason.

For everybody else, there are issues like making sure you can afford the plane, arranging financing, and probably the big one - accepting a large loss in value on the plane you already own, if you can in fact sell it, to buy a new plane.

 

[208starcheck]

That's a very good question. A couple of years ago I took an owner out to dinner while we were waiting for a recovery flight. He asked me the same thing. I didn't have an answer.


Maybe market the TEN as a new fleet?

Why buy a new car when the current car is only 5 years old and runs great? Because it's new.

 

[ozpilot]

Why buy a new car when the current car is only 5 years old and runs great? Because it's new.

That's true, but if you buy new and there are still 70 used X's in the fleet, what are the chances that your new TEN will be available for your trip?

 

[jtf]

The odds would be low, but as the company sells away the older airframes, the customers won't really have the choice to buy used unless they go elsewhere. That is a risk that NJA has to take eventually since the older airframes need to be continuously removed before they are just too old. I'm sure some will leave the program, but the business must move forward eventually and there will be at least some who like that new plane smell.

 

[208starcheck]

That's true, but if you buy new and there are still 70 used X's in the fleet, what are the chances that your new TEN will be available for your trip?

That was a complaint I heard a couple times with XL owners when buying a new XLS. I don't have an answer except X and Ten would most likely be different fleets. I image it would still be a problem though. I know their management fees are higher if they don't move to a newer airframe, because mx cost are higher for older airframes.

 

[rajflyboy]

Midsize?

Speak no more "Lear 85"

If you want performance performance performance which is all i damn here anymore then why not get the performance jet. Fill up with people and fuel and go out of any airport you want too.

 

[LAZYB]

Never buy one of the first 200 serial numbers of a new a/c, unless you want to do customer flight test and maintenance proving.

 

[jonjuan]

Never buy one of the first 200 serial numbers of a new a/c, unless you want to do customer flight test and maintenance proving.

Thanks Einstein. No frax would exist if they followed your " advice."

 

[rajflyboy]

Never buy one of the first 200 serial numbers of a new a/c, unless you want to do customer flight test and maintenance proving.

You are confusing Cessna products with Bombardiar Learjet products.

 

[BoilerUP]

You are confusing Cessna products with Bombardiar Learjet products.

Hopefully the Lear 85 won't replicate the 45's entry into service record...

 

[LAZYB]

Thanks Einstein. No frax would exist if they followed your " advice."

"Show your work" Professor Hawking

It's a generalization Professor. What makes a LR-85 so great and when will it be really certified. Maybe ya want to buy a Horizon or whatever they call it now....

 

[GUMP_check]

Any word on recall at NetJets?

 

[fischman]

Nothing.

 

[rajflyboy]

Any word on recall at NetJets?

you will have to sit in the "Banana Hammick" to figure that out