4 March 2015

Iberia and Airbus have reached an agreement over the early delivery of the A330-200s the airline ordered last year, and which will now join the long-haul fleet 14 months earlier than initially planned, between December 2015, and November 2016. The new aircraft will replace the A340-300s, and offer economic and environmental advantages as well as

Air Lease Corporation signed long term lease agreements with Travel Service (Czech Republic) for two new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Both aircraft are from ALC’s order book with Boeing and scheduled for delivery in spring 2018 and 2019.

Boeing and Ryanair have announced an order for three Next-Generation 737-800s. The order, previously unidentified on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website, is valued at US$280m at current list prices. With this order the Irish low-cost carrier now has unfilled orders for 174 Next-Generation 737-800s and 100 737 MAX 200s.

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) signed a contract to lease three new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to new customer Air India Express. Deliveries of the aircraft are scheduled for 2016 and are part of GECAS’ existing order book with Boeing. Air India Express is the low-cost subsidiary of Air India and operates a fleet of 17