Article title: "Part-Out Specialists Lukewarm On Second Hand A380s"
So A380 lovers beware...

My first thought when seeing the article title, I was a bit surprised. I would have thought that being one of the first to part-out an A380 would be a good and profitable venture. (little competition/parts availability/higher margins, etc.)
http://www.mro-network.com/airlines/par ... c3f94a3031
A few highlights:
"asset management specialists see little opportunity in taking the aircraft off the hands of operators for teardown purposes, an ap&m summit panel heard."
"Component Solutions Group at GA Telesis, says the company has already been offered two second hand A380s to part-out in recent times but declined the opportunity to do so."
Werner Aero Services: “They were offered to us at what I consider to be teardown pricing and definitely not as flyers but instead to be taken out of service,” he says. “The aircraft are serviceable but the owners are so eager to sell them that prices are reduced, however for us it remains still too risky even at the lower price.”
"when a Boeing 777 goes down with maintenance problems, it can simply be replaced with another of the aircraft. But should one A380 go down, two aircraft are needed to replace it in the fleet due to its size which becomes very challenging and operators are realizing this isn’t an incentive to extend leases.”
Let's try and keep this on topic... That would be Tear-Down and aftermarket opportunities.
