-Detroit-based ProAir will add a third Boeing 737-400 in December, leased from Boullioun. The secondhand aircraft will be used to increase frequencies and for expansion.
-US regional Trans States Airlines has exercised six options for the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145. Its original contract, signed in February, included nine firm orders and 18 options. Four have been delivered.
-General Electric Capital Aviation Services has firmed up its order for 30 Airbus A320 family aircraft, announced at the Farnborough air show in September and due for delivery in 2002-6. The order includes one A319, 15 A320s and 14 A321s, all powered by the CFM International CFM56-5.
-Sudan Airways is replacing its Airbus A310-200 with a nine-year-old A300-600R leased from Airbus for 15 years, and previously leased to Korean Air. The airline's ex-Kuwait Airways A310-200, also leased from Airbus, has been returned.
-Boeing is taking four P&W JT9D-powered 747s - two -200s and two SPs - in trade from Korean Air for two 747-400s, one -400F and two 777-300s.
-Swissworld will lease a Boeing 757-200 later this year and four 737-700s early in 1999.
-Channel Express has bought four ex-Hunting Cargo Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra freighters. One will be broken up for spares.
-ING Lease International has sold two Airbus A300B4-100s to Turkish charter Air Alfa.
-Airbus has acquired the first of up to seven A300B4-200s from Thai Airways, as part of a trade-in for new A300-600Rs and A330s. The A300B4s are expected to be converted to freighters and acquired by DHL for US operations.
-Sweden's Skyways, which took over the deal for five Embraer RJ-145s when it acquired City Airlines recently, has firmed up one of the four options. It has two firm orders and three options, the first due for delivery by the end of October. Skyways will use the 50-seaters to launch the first of six international routes from Gothenburg in January.
Source: Flight International
