Hong Kong's Dragonair has finalised a deal with International Lease Finance for six more Rolls-Royce Trent 772-powered Airbus A330-300s. Three aircraft will be delivered in 2005 and three more in 2006, all on seven-year leases. Air Europa has ordered two new Boeing 737-800s for delivery in May and July 2005, taking its fleet to 34 aircraft. Indian Airlines has completed talks with undisclosed lessors to add four more Airbus A320s before the end of June on three- to five-year leases. UK-based AirRep will operate one of its Tupolev Tu-204 freighters for Lithuanian carrier Aviapaslauga. The agreement, says AirRep, will give the Baltic states and Scandinavian markets easier access to Tu-204 operations. ATR remarketing specialist Magellan Air has sold three ex-American Eagle ATR 42-300s - one each to Swiftair of Spain; western Canada's Wind Aviation and Air Vanuatu. It has also placed an ex-Danish Air Transport aircraft with Nordic Aviation Contractor. Slovak Airlines has sold its Tupolev Tu-154M fleet to Russia's Pulkovo Airlines, after deciding to replace the Soviet-era trijets with Boeing 737s. Emerald Airways has acquired three ex-Air Wisconsin BAe ATPs and two ex-Biman Bangladesh ATPs.
Source: Flight International
