-Debonair has signed a lease purchase agreement with Air Atlantic parent IMP for the acquisition of three British Aerospace 146-200s, which have become available following the closure of the Canadian regional carrier. The first aircraft will arrive at the end of this month, with the second following in December and the third next January.
-Tower Air is adding an additional Boeing 747-200 to its existing fleet of eight 747-100s, two 747-100Fs and nine 747-200Bs.
-Korean Air plans to sell its two remaining Boeing MD-11 passenger models by the end of the year, and return a leased Airbus A300.
-Air Madagascar will introduce a second Boeing 767-300ER in 1999, probably leased from GE Capital Aviation Services.
-Olympic Airways has sold two 29-year-old Boeing 727-200s to Aero Controls for breaking up. The aircraft have been in storage since 1997.
-Canadian Airlines International has taken advantage of the glut in the aircraft market, with a deal for four more Boeing 767-300ERs at bargain prices, to allow it to retire up to four McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s. Two of the 767s are new aircraft which had been allocated to an order recently cancelled by another airline. The other two 767s are five-year-old examples, previously leased to Asiana Airlines. The airline is also retrieving an A320 which it had leased out, to save costs, to charter airline Canada 3000 of Toronto.
-Air Canada has sold its last three Boeing 747-100s (24-27 years old) to Pratt & Whitney.
-Air Aruba has added two new Boeing MD-90-30s on lease from Taiwanese leasing company Hwa-Hsia, which originally ordered the twinjets as part of a three aircraft deal in 1996.
-KLM will add a new Boeing 67-300ER in February 2000 on seven-year lease from International Lease Finance. ++ Delta Airlines has placed orders for a further 11 Boeing 757-200s, for delivery between July 1999 and April 2000.
Source: Flight International
