Dragonair has signed a multi-year lease agreement for an Airbus A320 with Boullioun Aviation Services. The International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered A320, which is part of Boullioun's 30-aircraft order placed with Airbus last year, will be delivered to the Hong Kong-based carrier in March 2002. Flightlease has placed four new Airbus A320s with Air Europe of Italy, for delivery this year. Frontier Airlines has leased a Boeing 737-300 from International Lease Finance, to enter service on 1 July, joining the Denver-based airline's seventeen 737-300s and seven 737-200s. Euro First Air of Spain has leased for three years a former Alitalia Airbus A300B4-200 freighter from CS Aviation Services. The aircraft will be leased to Iberia. South Africa's Nationwide Air has acquired two Boeing 737-200s from Israel's El Al. Raytheon has delivered a new Beech 1900D to Australia's Impulse Airlines, joining 18 1900Ds in service. Transasian Air Group has sold a former KLM Fokker 100 to Montenegro Airlines, taking two F28-4000s in part payment, with one aircraft offered for sale and the second leased back to Montenegro for six months. Aero Continente of Peru has leased a former AeroPeru Boeing 727-100 from Millennium Airline Acquisition. Romanian flag carrier Tarom has added to its Boeing 737 fleet with a -300 leased from AWAS and a -500 from Maersk Air. National Airlines will lease two new Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Boeing 757-200s from GECAS from January. Varig has leased two ex-VASP General Electric CF6-powered Boeing MD-11s from Mitsui. Highland Airways of Scotland has purchased a British Aerospace Jetstream 31, previously owned by Sweden's Flying Enterprise, from ISIS Aviation Services for oil industry charters. ISIS is remarketing three more Flying Enterprise J31s. Sobelair will receive a new Boeing 767-300ER leased from Flightlease in November.
Source: Flight International
