Orders & deliveries – Page 216
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-India's Jet Airways has taken delivery of two Boeing 737-800s. The leased aircraft will replace one 737-400 and one 737-500. -Indian airline Bengal Air is adding two more British Aerospace 748-2Bs for a late October start. -Cargo airline Atlas Air has purchased Cargolux International's three Boeing 747-200 freighters, but will ...
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GPA reborn after signing Texas deal
GPA is set to re-emerge under a new name as a small independent lessor later this year following a deal with US venture capital partnership Texas Pacific to acquire up to a 47.7% shareholding in the Irish lessor. The deal comes three months after a memorandum of understanding was ...
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-Pan American has added a fourth Boeing 727-200 to its fleet to expand charter operations. The airline is now examining the possibility of resuming scheduled operations next year. -Qantas has found a buyer for its fleet of four 16/17-year-old Airbus A300B4s - the A300 freighter leasing company Pinnacle Air Cargo ...
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SAS thinks over airliner options
Julian Moxon/PARIS SAS says it could decide "by the end of the year" on its next airliner purchases, following the September delivery of its first Next Generation Boeing 737. The Scandinavian airline is looking at replacing its 14 200-seat Boeing 767-300ERs with the Boeing 777 or a mix ...
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Proteus market predicted to fly
Guy Norris/MOJAVE Wyman-Gordon is predicting an estimated market for up to 1,000 of the unconventional Proteus high-altitude, long operation (HALO) aircraft being built by its subsidiary Scaled Composites. The US investment company hopes to begin proof-of-concept trials as early as 2000. The prediction, from Wyman-Gordon's chairman and chief ...
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Airbus may move wing production to China
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie is proposing to transfer part of its A320 aircraft series wing production to China, in a move intended to compensate for the recent demise of the Sino-European AE31X regional jet programme and to counter a similar offer of 717 wing work from Boeing. The European consortium ...
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Varig has signed for four Boeing 777-200s, 10 737-800s, four 737-700s, six 767-300ERs and has placed options for another four 777-200s and 11 737-700s. Another 777 customer is American Airlines, with 15 more 777-200ERs for delivery from March 2000. Package delivery company UPS has ordered 30 Airbus A300F4-600Rs, plus ...
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Asians climb out of currency crisis
Two of the flag carriers worst hit by the Asian currency collapse - Philippine Airlines and Indonesia's Garuda - have taken vital steps back from the abyss. PAL has resolved key labour problems while Garuda has renegotiated crippling US-dollar aircraft leases and gained government approval to increase domestic fares. ...
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Russia crisis hits home
A contraction in the Russian airline industry is now almost inevitable, after nearly a month of financial uncertainty left the rouble heavily devalued from its level of mid-August. The devaluation will almost certainly lead to a general economic downturn in Russia with passenger numbers and cargo traffic both dropping off ...
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The price of peace
Airbus and Boeing kicked off the Farnborough air show with modest price rises, giving the first signs of a truce in the cut-throat battle for market share After years of undignified acrimony it seems that the feuding could finally be over. As the aerospace world gathered for the Farnborough air ...
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-SilkAir has taken delivery of its first International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered Airbus A320. The regional division of Singapore Airlines is replacing its Boeing 737-300 fleet with four A320s and four A319s, and holds options on another 10 aircraft. -ING Lease International Equipment Management has sold and delivered an ex-Pan American ...
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Workshop
-AvAero will supply Stage 3 hushkits for five Boeing 737-200s operated by Calgary, Canada-based WestJet Airlines. -Lucas Aerospace, which supplies 14 different line replacement units (LRUs) for the Embraer RJ-145, has signed a 10-year spares deal with Trans States Airlines to provide LRUs, plus maintenance on a cost-per-flight-hour basis. -United ...
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Deep impact
Max Kingsley-Jones/FARNBOROUGH Airbus Industrie's recent, relentless pounding of Boeing continued through the Farnborough air show week, with the European consortium announcing some $12 billion worth of sales, taking orders past 3,000. The string of recent successes, combined with a new product launch, look set to ensure that Airbus will indeed ...
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-Airbus Asset Management is negotiating to lease an ex-Gulf Air A340-300 to Sabena to replace the aircraft damaged in a landing accident at Brussels. The A340 had previously been earmarked for Ethiopian Airlines. -Alitalia has leased one new Boeing 767-300ER and two used examples from International Lease Finance. The aircraft, ...
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Airbus confirms Emirates and ILFC A340 orders
Airbus Industrie has confirmed orders from two customers, Emirates and International Lease Finance (ILFC), for up to 26 A340-500/600s. The two deals have an estimated value of $3.8 billion, including options. ILFC's deal for 10 Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered A340s includes five firm orders and five options, with deliveries scheduled ...
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KLM set to bring first737-900 to Europe
KLM has underlined its commitment to Boeing's Next Generation 737 family by becoming the first European operator to order the stretched 737-900. The order for four aircraft is a blow to Airbus Industrie, which had campaigned hard to sell the A321 to KLM as part of attempts to complete ...
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TNT A300F lease paves way for BAe deal
TNT is finalising a major Airbus A300B4 conversion contract with British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS), following the signing of a lease deal with C-S Aviation Services (CSAS) for four A300B4 freighters. The deal with CSAS, and another with Airbus Industrie's Asset Management division for three A300B4s, comes as part ...
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GECAS signs $3.2 billion Airbus/Boeing contracts
General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed orders worth an estimated $3.2 billion with Airbus Industrie and Boeing for up 52 aircraft. The deal with Airbus, for 30 A320 family aircraft plus options on a further 10, takes the US leasing company's orders for the twinjet to 82 ...
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UPS deal heads $8bn Airbus spree
Karen Walker Airbus Industrie chalked up yet another coup yesterday when it announced two multi-billion-dollar deals and secured a new customer, United Parcel Service (UPS), which has selected the A300-600 freighter for its widebody fleet. Wednesday's UPS order, worth $4.8 billion, combined with a $2 billion order from ...
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-Austrian Airlines has become the first carrier to take delivery of the recently certificated Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Airbus A330-200, with the handing over of the first of four aircraft it plans to acquire. Meanwhile, Korean Air has become the first Asian airline to take delivery of the type, with ...