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Back on the Plate, Pre-buys Still Face Post-covid Challenges
Industry experts caution on the need for a full pre-buy and one that is carefully laid out
Buying aircraft during covid
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The days of the pandemic business jet buying frenzy are over, and so too, for the most part, are decisions to skip pre-buy inspections in desperation to secure an aircraft. However, lingering issues such as supply chain and MRO capacity, along with new concerns such as tariff-related market uncertainties, are still proving challenging for the pre-buy inspection process and, as a result, threaten to complicate certain aircraft deals.

Jay Mesinger, who is CEO and president of an aircraft brokerage that has been in business for more than 40 years, Mesinger Jet Sales, has an adage about pre-buys: “Can’t live with them and should never live without them.”