All Orders & Deliveries news – Page 222
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-US cargo carrier Atlas Air has signed a long term contract to operate Boeing 747-200 freighter services for Alitalia, with an ex-Philippine Airlines 747-200F being converted by Boeing. -Stansted, UK based AB Airlines has leased two ex-Jet Airways Boeing 737-300s from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS). -Air Malta has concluded ...
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Korean wraps up 737 deal with Boeing/GECAS
Korean Air (KAL) has finalised a series of financially convoluted lease, loan and trade-in deals with Boeing and General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for 35 Next Generation 737s. The agreements entail KAL rolling over its entire fleet of 26 Boeing MD-82/83 and Fokker 100 twinjets. In return, Boeing ...
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Overnight parcel carriers face noisy opposition
Herman De Wulf/Brussels Express parcel carriers, which fly the bulk of their operations at night, are facing growing opposition in Europe on environmental grounds. The latest development is the rejection by a Bavarian court of an appeal by DHL International against a ban on night operations at Nuremberg Airport, which ...
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++ Continental Airlines and VASP of Brazil will codeshare on flights between the USA and Brazil from mid-1998, pending Government approvals. ++ SAS Cargo is to introduce a DHL-owned McDonnell Douglas DC-8-70 freighter between New York and Gothenburg, Sweden, and will share an Antonov An-26 between Copenhagen and the ...
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Airbus/Boeing pin hopes on China orders
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie and Boeing are hoping that forthcoming visits of US and European leaders to Beijing will produce follow-on aircraft purchases, as China Aviation Supplies (CASC) completes the final allocation of the 80 airliners ordered last year. Boeing is believed to be working on the sale ...
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MARKETPLACE ++ American Airlines has confirmed its order for a further eight Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777-200ERs, increasing its 777 order to 19. Delivery of the newly ordered aircraft will begin in 1999. Delta Air Lines has converted two options for R-R Trent 800-powered 777s. ++ Aerotec/ USA, ...
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CAL rethinks orders after crash
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI China Airlines (CAL) is considering deferring aircraft orders because of a 10-15% drop in load factors after one of its Airbus A300s crashed at Taipei in February, killing over 200 people. CAL is considering the deferral of two Airbus A300-600Rs due for delivery this year, say ...
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Harbin agrees North American Y-12 sales deal
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing (HAMC) of China has concluded a joint venture agreement to supply Y-12(IV) turboprop airframes to the Canadian Aerospace Group for modification, final completion, certification and sale to the North American market. The deal concluded in Beijing covers the supply of to 50 Y-12s over the next ...
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Airbus in AE31X dilemma
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie is looking for a collaborative programme to substitute for the AE31X to placate its Chinese aerospace industry joint venture partners in the regional jet project. The Chinese are increasingly irritated that the proposed 100-seat A319M5 derivative is gaining momentum as a quick fix alternative to compete ...
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++ Australia's biggest independently-owned regional carrier, Brisbane-based Flightwest Airlines, will buy at least four 19-seat British Aerospace Jetstream 32EP (enhanced performance) to replace Raytheon Beech King Airs on routes to remote-areas. The airline has also upgraded several regional routes formerly flown by Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias, with the acquisition of a ...
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Malaysia leases 737s to India's Jet Airways
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is reducing its operating fleet of Boeing 737s further by leasing five aircraft to Jet Airways of India. MAS also says it will take delivery of all eight 777 and 747s scheduled for delivery this year. The Malaysian national carrier has reached an agreement to dry-lease ...
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United Airlines has ordered 20 Airbus A320s and 10 A319s for delivery in 2000-1. Business Express has ordered 20 Embraer RJ.135s plus 40 options, with deliveries starting in October 1999. SkyWest has ordered 20 EMB.120s plus 40 options, for delivery from March 1998. Trans States has ordered two ERJ.145s. ...
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ILFC negotiates with Airbus and Boeing for 100-seaters
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Leasing giant International Lease Finance (ILFC) has confirmed negotiations with Airbus Industrie and Boeing over a possible purchase of the 100-seat A319M5 and 717-200. "The 717 is under review by ILFC, as is the A319M5. We're talking, we're considering, but I can't give you any ...
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Boeing cools on MD-11's future
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has toned down its optimism over the future of the MD-11 and warns that more problems with Next Generation 737 manufacturing might produce additional delivery delays, making a third consecutive quarterly charge a possibility. There are signs that more lay-offs could follow. Production problems left Boeing ...
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-Tower Air will wet-lease two Boeing 747-100 freighters to Chilean cargo airline Fast Air Cargo for one year. Fast Air operates three McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73s on services within Latin America and to the USA. -Willis Lease Finance has committed to purchase 12 Boeing 747-100s and spare engines from United Airlines, ...
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Classic takes shape
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH In June a familiar shape is due to take off on a maiden flight from Long Beach, California. Outwardly it will bear the classic hallmarks of a Douglas-built T-tail twinjet, yet in most respects it is a radically new aircraft. The Boeing 717-200 was once the MD-95. ...
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Busy Socata is forced to delay Tangara
Julian Moxon/PARIS Production of the Socata Tangara light twin is to be delayed by up to a year, as the French manufacturer meets increased demand for subcontracting work and its TBM700 single. French certification of the Textron Lycoming 0-360-A1G6 powered Tangara was obtained in December 1997, with production start-up originally ...
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Brave faces
The Asian slowdown is giving suppliers a chance to take stock of their many new ideas. Meanwhile, the regional jet phenomenon continues to grow. Karen Walker reports. For the commercial airliner manufacturers, observes one industry analyst, getting through the recent Asian Aerospace show was all about 'brave faces and nervous ...
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Condor Berlin boosts Airbus A320 orders as operations begin
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Condor Berlin, the new subsidiary of Lufthansa charter arm Condor Flugdienst, has increased its Airbus Industrie A320 order from six to eight aircraft. The new airline, based at Berlin/ Schönefeld Airport, was founded at the beginning of this year and began operations in early March. Its ...
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-British Airways subsidiary Brymon Airways is to aquire eight more de Havilland Dash 8-300s on lease from Bombardier Aerospace. The new Dash 8Q models will replace some of the airline's existing Dash 8s, and serve new routes. Deliveries will begin in April and continue through to early 1999. -Lufthansa CityLine ...