Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 24, 2008
Avianca inked a $750 million, 15-year OnPointSM solution deal with GE Aviation for MRO services on CFM56-5Bs powering 50 A319s and A320s. Work will be conducted at GE's facility in Petropolis, Brazil.
Mar 24, 2008
Germany and Russia reached an agreement on moving Lufthansa Cargo's regional transit hub from Astana in Kazakhstan to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, ending a dispute that had resulted in the temporary cessation of LHC's Russian overflight rights. "Our overflight rights via Russia are now granted," LHC Chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr told ATWOnline last week in Frankfurt, adding that LHC will move to Krasnoyarsk once operational and commercial conditions are met and modernization projects at the airport are completed. He expects the earliest possible date to be sometime in 2009.
Mar 24, 2008
Frontier Airlines reached agreement to sell two of its 49 A319s and two of its 11 A318s to VTB Leasing, which in turn will lease them to St. Petersburg-based Rossiya Airlines. SkyWorks Leasing arranged the sale. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move is part of the Denver-based carrier's effort to modernize its fleet in the face of high energy costs. President and CEO Sean Menke characterized its recent financial losses as "clearly not acceptable" and vowed to make necessary changes (ATWOnline, Jan. 28).
Mar 21, 2008
Bombardier announced the sale of six CRJ700 NextGens to an unidentified carrier. The deal includes 10 options. Firm orders are worth $207 million at list prices and the contract value will increase to around $562 million if all options are exercised.
Mar 21, 2008
Air France KLM confirmed that its restructuring of Alitalia will include approximately 1,600 job cuts, fleet downsizing and the transfer of some 2,800 AZ Servizi employees to AZ Fly with the remaining AZS staff retained for up to two consecutive periods of four years. State severance schemes will be implemented for the employees who lose their jobs.
Nov 28, 2014
Ryanair’s shareholders have voted to approve the low cost carrier’s plan to order 100 737 MAXs, plus 100 options, valued at around $22 billion at list prices.
Nov 26, 2014
Air France-KLM Group has named Benjamin Moreau chief executive of its subsidiary CRMA, which specializes in repair of engine parts and assemblies, especially CFM engines, GE90s and GP7200s, and component overhaul.
Nov 25, 2014
SkyWest Inc., parent of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, has confirmed its order for seven current generation Embraer E-175s, valued at $301 million, which it will deploy on behalf of Alaska Airlines.
Nov 25, 2014
American Airlines Group will next year start transferring at least 50 Embraer E-145s from its wholly owned regional subsidiary Envoy Air to other regional airlines, including moving at least 15 E-145s to Trans States Airlines.
Nov 25, 2014
Air France is in talks to upgrade its ATR fleet to the latest -600 variant and is looking to replace its Embraer ERJ-145s and Bombardier CRJ700s around 2020.
Nov 25, 2014
China’s Ruili Airlines has received its first direct-purchase Boeing 737-700.
Nov 25, 2014
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee’s Aviation Register (IAC AR) has granted a Supplemental Type Certificate to Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) for its Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to perform vertical navigation (VNAV) for all stages of flight.
Nov 24, 2014
Colorado-based Frontier Airlines has placed its first Airbus A321 order, inking a deal for nine of the type to join its all-Airbus fleet.