In the January/February edition of Inflight magazine, Vallair Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer, Pascal Parant, spoke about the increasing numbers of younger aircraft being acquired for teardowns.
“Whilst tearing down older aircraft is the norm, we are seeing that younger models are being torn down to release valuable USM to the market,” explains Parant. “The youngest aircraft I’ve seen town down were some two-year-old A318s in the US. There was also a ‘famous’ 787-8 that remained awaiting conversion for a long time before it was eventually torn down with less than 80 flying hours.”
He also considers that the value of newer airframes over old can be attributed to the rapid evolution of airliner cabins. “Cabin components reflect how much has changed over the past decade or so. Seats are slimmer, newer materials are used, and traditional lighting has been replaced with LED. Therefore, older, dated cabin material might not be worth reclaiming, making newer airframes more attractive for harvesting cabin USM.”
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Article courtesy of Inflight.
