-Atlas Air has placed one Boeing 747-200F and two Boeing 747-400Fs with FedEx on wet-lease, by the end of the year.
-Cebu Pacific is boosting its McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 fleet to ten with the addition of three more aircraft.The first aircraft, an ex-Air Canada example, was delivered last month. Two ex-Adria Airways machines will arrive in December and January.
-US start-up Shuttle America has arranged to lease five Dash 8-300s from Bombardier, to enable it to begin operations by the end of 1998. At least three of the aircraft are secondhand, having previously been operated by Mesa, Tyrolean and SA Express.
-British Airways has firmed up the first part of an order it announced in August for up 188 International Aero Engines V2500-powered Airbus narrowbodies. The 59 firm orders include 39 A319s and 20 A320s. Deliveries to BA's UK regional divisions will begin next September.
-Northwest Airlines has placed a $50 million order for AlliedSignal's 131-9(A) auxiliary power unit (APU) to equip 50 firm and 100 optioned Airbus A319s. The company says it will continue to operate AlliedSignal's 36-300 APU on its existing A320 fleet.
-Finnair has purchased three ATR 72s from Taiwan's Transasia Airways, which will be delivered between now and January 1999. The aircraft will replace two Saab 340s, which are being removed from the fleet in mid-1999, and sold to Swedish regional airline Flying Enterprise.
-GE Capital Aviation Services has placed a 737-700 with LAPA of Argentina.
-ATR's newly created asset management division has placed 23 secondhand ATRs with nine customers: six ATR 42-300s with Inter-Canadian, four with Israir of Israel, two with LAER of Argentina and one each with Air Inter Gabon and Scorpio of Egypt; two ATR 42-320s with Brazil's Passaredo and five with El Salvador's TACA; and one ATR 72-200 with Air Exel and one -210 with Bangkok Airways.
Source: Flight International
