Pooja Gardemal, managing director at BK Associates, will join Cargo Facts Symposium for the panel discussion “Current freighter values and lease-rate trends” on Friday, Oct. 23, at 9:05 a.m. (GMT-5) 

The 32nd annual Cargo Facts Symposium will take place Oct. 21-23 at the Grand Hyatt in Nashville, Tenn., where industry leaders and decision makers will gather to assess the latest trends and developments in the freighter sector and share their insights to project the market’s growth trajectory.

View the Cargo Facts Symposium 2026 agenda.

Gardemal will talk with George Dimitroff, head of valuations at Cirium Ascend Consultancy, and Anna Kopinski, director of asset Valuations at mba Aviation, about:

• Pricing trends for conversion feedstock in 2026;
• When narrowbody lease rates could decline; and
• How much longer widebody market values could continue to rise.

Gardemal purchased BK Associates in 2018 and has more than sixteen years of aircraft, airlines and MRO valuation experience, including a stint as vice president of business valuation and economic analysis for Morten, Beyer and Agnew.

BK Associates specializes in aircraft appraisals and analysis of aircraft performance, air traffic control, maintenance facility design, corporate and commercial airline flight operations.

Cargo Facts Symposium 2026, the premier event for the freighter aircraft and air cargo industries, will take place in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 21-23. Find out more and register by Sept. 4 to take advantage of early-bird pricing.