Demand For Bombardier Pre-Owned Aircraft On The Rise In Africa

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Bombardier says it has added a significant number of pre-owned aircraft from its Q and CRJ Series in the last three months to regional airlines in Africa, a move that’s bolstering Bombardier’s aftermarket revenue stream and setting up future sales of new Bombardier aircraft. (Photo courtesy of Bombardier.)

Jean-Paul Boutibou, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft’s vice president of sales for the Middle East and Africa region, said in a news release that the company is making headway in Africa where market penetration is concerned. The progress stems from a strategy in which Bombardier is placing pre-owned Bombardier aircraft with numerous airlines in Africa. Besides helping bolster its aftermarket revenue stream, Bombardier says placing pre-owned aircraft with airlines operating in Africa will lead to future orders of new Bombardier aircraft.

Significant Placement

Boutibou provided an update of Bombardier’s activities in the African regional aircraft market at a finance conference that African Aviation staged recently in Johannesburg, South Africa. Founded in 1990, African Aviation has a hand in consultancy, conferences, seminars, and other activities that promote aviation development in Africa.

In the last three months, Boutibou said Bombardier has placed a “significant number” of pre-owned regional aircraft with about seven airlines in the region. Additionally, Bombardier says that as one of the largest regional aircraft management organizations, it has the international connections and expertise to “address fleet-replacement needs or acquisitions of pre-owned regional aircraft.”

An Active Market

David Speirs, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft vice president, asset management, said the latest aircraft placements in Africa “are testament to the residual value” of Bombardier’s regional aircraft. “With the lowest overall cost and highest reliability standard, the CRJ Series and Q Series aircraft are low-risk investments for airlines looking at increasing profitability,” he said.

Speirs said the global pre-owned regional aircraft market has been “very active” recently, adding that Bombardier has added more than 40 new operators of its CRJ and Q400/300 series in the last five years. Those operators include many “we welcomed as operators of pre-owned aircraft,” he said.

African regional aircraft operators recently receiving pre-owned Bombardier aircraft include CemAir, which acquired and is leasing three new and pre-owned Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft, making it a new Q400 operator. CemAir also became a new CRJ Series operator with recent pre-owned aircraft acquisitions, as did Syphax Tunisia.

Other acquisitions find Camair-Co joining the Q400 operator family, DAC East Africa adding two Q200 and one Q400 aircraft, Congo Airways adding at least two more Q Series aircraft, 748 Air Services adding one Q400 and one Q200, and Silverstone Air adding two Q300 and one CRJ200 LR converted aircraft.

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Source: Bombardier

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