-C-S Aviation Services has placed five Airbus A300B4 freighters with Grupo TACA, for delivery at the end of this year, plus lease options for two more aircraft. C-S has also placed an A300B4F on a five-year lease with International Cargo Charters of Canada. The airline operates Emery Worldwide services from Vancouver.
-British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets (AMJ) has sold two 11-year-old British Aerospace 146-200s, which are leased to Eurowings, to Lombard Asset Finance for over $22 million.
-Antwerp-based VLM expects to add a seventh Fokker 50 in January on lease from debis Airfinance to enable it to expand its scheduled services.
-Midway Airlines has placed orders worth $64 million for three additional Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Series 200ERs for delivery in December 1999, February and March 2000.
-Kalahari Express has acquired two Fokker F28 Mk3000s from Ansett Australia for operation on services between Windhoek and Johannesburg.
-Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), the Singapore Airlines (SIA)/Boullioun leasing joint venture has purchased two Boeing 737-300s from SIA's regional carrier SilkAir. The 737s will be leased back to the carrier until April and October.
-Cargolux has ordered two more Rolls-Royce RB211-524G/HT-powered Boeing 747-400 freighters for delivery in late 1999 and mid-2002.
-UK-based African cargo carrier DAS Air Cargo will add an ex-Malaysia Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 freighter in April on lease from Finova Capital, following conversion by Aeronavali. It replaces a Boeing 707.
-Airborne Express will boost its Boeing 767-200 cargo fleet to 23 aircraft, with the addition of 11 more ex-All Nippon Airways examples.
-The board of Austrian Airlines has approved an order for seven more Airbus A320 family aircraft, six A320s and one A321, for delivery between March 2001 and June 2003.
Source: Flight International
