Twenty-five percent of aircraft orders at risk
Analysts estimate that 25-30% of the commercial aircraft backlog at Boeing Co. and Airbus could be at risk as high fuel prices continue to batter airlines, Aviation Week reported today in an online article by Joseph C. Anselmo.
Many undercapitalized startups in Asia and Europe have overly-aggressive growth plans that could cause the airlines to cancel or defer orders. For example, Robert Stallard, a director at Macquarie Capital, questions whether SpiceJet has a strong enough balance sheet to secure credit for the 16 Boeing 737-800s it has ordered and says it might not even qualify for a sale/leaseback. "The question that has yet to be answered is not whether there will be a downturn, but how bad it will be," says Stallard in the Aviation Week article.
Anselmo offers two outcomes - the optimistic view that "Boeing and Airbus can afford to lose orders and still make it to the industry's next up-cycle with minimal pain" and, the more negative answer, "that a steep change in global energy demand has created a permanent era of high prices and sent the airline industry into uncharted territory."
Joseph C. Anselmo, Aviation Week's senior business editor, writes "Market Focus" commentary each week. He has covered aerospace and defense issues from Washington for more than a dozen years. Prior to Aviation Week, Anselmo worked as a managing editor for the Washington Post Co. and as a defense reporter on Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly. He has won two top journalism awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in London and was elected to three terms on the National Press Club's Board of Governors, where he also served as chairman.
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