Fleets – Page 521
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AerCap closes on $1.4b A330 financing
Dutch aircraft lessor AerCap inked a $1.4 billion facility agreement for Airbus A330 financing with several banks and financial institutions led by Calyon. The...
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TACA A320 crash: Jet's behaviour 'consistent' with crew action
Preliminary findings from the fatal TACA Airbus A320 landing accident in Honduras last May have not revealed any technical fault with the aircraft. The...
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Garuda Indonesia plans to double aircraft fleet by 2013
Garuda Indonesia has unveiled plans to launch new services and dramatically increase the size of its fleet beyond what it has already ordered. The...
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Afriqiyah merger would create stronger carrier: Libyan CEO
Libyan Airlines is aiming to complete its long-proposed...
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Copa orders four more 737-800s
Panama's Copa Airlines has ordered four more Boeing 737-800s, lifting its outstanding commitments to the aircraft type to 13.
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Row 44 plans commercial trials for January
Row 44 in January expects to begin testing its Ku band-based in-flight connectivity system on commercial aircraft even as the firm continues to face opposition...
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Airbus narrowly meets delivery target of 12 A380s in 2008
Airbus has narrowly met its revised delivery target of 12 A380 aircraft for 2008 following its handover today of a fourth example to Middle Eastern carrier...
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SIA outlines initial plans for A330s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has outlined initial plans for its new fleet of Airbus A330-300s, which it starts taking delivery of next month to replace older...
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David Cush: Evolving Virgin America from embattled start-up to niche carrier
Virgin America CEO David Cush arrived at the carrier roughly a year ago ahead of a period of wildly spiking fuel prices and at the beginning of an equally astounding economic recession
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Putting Surinam on the map
Surinam is one of those places you think you know where it is, but can’t quite remember. It’s a quiet country on the north-eastern part of South America, with more affinity with the Caribbean than with its cousins with whom it shares a continent.
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ANZ's first 787-9 delayed by 12 more months
Recently confirmed new delays in the Boeing 787 programme have further pushed back delivery of Air New Zealand's (ANZ) first aircraft, to 2013.
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British Airways orders 11 Embraer 170/190s for CityFlyer
British Airways has ordered 11 Embraer regional jets for use by its BA CityFlyer subsidiary. Embraer says in a statement that the deal comprises...
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Airlines face bumpy ride in 2009
There's no point dressing it up, the coming year is going to be extremely tough for airlines in all regions. As the global recession takes hold, airlines will face falling demand and the toughest revenue environment in half a century
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Airlines push for liberalisation
Airlines have long been campaigning for the right to freely invest cross-border and leave the shackles of ownership and control restrictions behind. Will 2009 be the year in which real progress starts to be made on liberalisation?
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China's ARJ21 faces further six-month delay in first delivery
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) has disclosed that first delivery of its ARJ21-700 regional jet is to be delayed by a further six months. Comac...