Air France has signed a five-year lease agreement with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for three General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777-200ERs. The aircraft will be delivered between April 2001 and February 2002. Brymon Airways has taken delivery of the first of seven Embraer RJ-145s it has on order. Sabena has firmed up its memorandum of understanding placed in December for four new Airbus A340-300s, plus options on a further four A330/A340s. Deliveries will take place in 2001 and 2002. Raytheon Aircraft has leased a used Beech 1990C to San Juan-based Servicios Aereos Profesionales for freight services in Puerto Rico. Peru's AeroContinente will take delivery of two Boeing 767-200ERs on lease from ILFC this month. According to Flight International's sister on-line news service Air Transport Intelligence, the aircraft will substitute for the Boeing 757s used on the Lima-Miami route, which are on short-term wet leases from Air 2000. Cathay Pacific Airways will receive a new Airbus A340-300 on five year leases from ILFC next January. Two of four Airbus A330-200s ordered by British Midland recently will be taken on eight year leases. Delivery of the 211-seaters is set for next April and May. The government of the Republic of Cape Verde has acquired an ex-Air Malawi Fairchild Dornier 228-200 to replace the aircraft lost in an accident last year. The deal was arranged by ISIS Aviation Services. Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise has selected International Aero Engines V2500s to power 20 Airbus A320 family aircraft ordered last October. GE Capital Aviation Services has delivered two ex-Aeroflot, Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 767-300ERs to TWA on eight year leases.
Source: Flight International
