Mr Luc Vigneron, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thales, tendered his resignation to the company’s directors at a meeting of the Board of Directors on 20 December 2012, and his resignation was accepted. At this same meeting, the Board of Directors co-opted Mr Jean-Bernard Lévy as a director and subsequently elected him to the […]
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airBaltic has signed a firm purchase agreement to acquire 10 all-new Bombardier CS300 airliners. The Riga, Latvia-based airline also has purchase rights on a further 10 CS300 aircraft. The purchase agreement represents the conversion to firm orders of a Letter of Intent (LOI), announced at the Farnborough Air Show on July 10, 2012. The LOI
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Tampa Cargo, AviancaTaca Holding’s cargo airline based in Colombia, has taken delivery of the first of four new A330 Freighter (A330-200F) aircraft at Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France. The aircraft is powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 772B engines. The new aircraft is part of the airline’s fleet renewal strategy and will allow Tampa to expand its
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Cabot Aviation announced the sale of DHC8-100, MSN 245, to Skytrans who are based in Cairns, Australia. The aircraft is ex-GMG Airlines (Bangladesh) and Cabot Aviation arranged the transaction. This aircraft was manufactured in 1990 and originally delivered to GMG in 1998. Skytrans now operates a fleet of 14 DHC8 aircraft. Cabot Aviation also sold
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GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced it will lease four new Boeing 777-300ERs to China Airlines. The first aircraft is scheduled for delivery in 2014 to modernize the airline’s long-haul wide-body fleet. All four leased aircraft come from GECAS’ existing order book with Boeing. In November 2011, GECAS announced it will lease four new Airbus
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On December 19th, 2012, Department of Civil Aviation of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, validated the Type Certificate for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft (RRJ-95B). This validation confirms compliance of the SSJ100 to the certification requirements of the Laos Aviation Authority, allowing its export to Indonesia and operation
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