Boeing and Uzbekistan Airways, the flag carrier of the Republic of Uzbekistan, have finalized an order for one 787-8 Dreamliner, valued at US$239m at current list prices. Uzbekistan Airways currently operates two Dreamliners on international routes, including Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan and USA. With this latest order, the carrier will add five more Dreamliners as
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has concluded a firm order for 10 new Q400 aircraft with Ethiopian Airlines. The order also includes purchase rights for five additional Q400 aircraft. Based on the list price of the Q400 aircraft, the firm order is valued at approximately US$332m. The Q400 aircraft is the most recent development in the Q
AviaAM Leasing has announced the delivery of an Airbus A321-211 to the Canadian carrier Air Transat. The aircraft will supplement an Airbus A321 which was delivered by AviaAM Leasing last month. The Aircraft was delivered to the client at Kaunas, Lithuania on April 27, fresh from C-check. The aircraft is joining Air Transat’s fleet under
Southwest Airlines has revised its future firm order delivery schedule with Boeing to support future fleet modernization. The Company exercised 40 737 MAX 8 options which adds 10 additional firm orders in each year 2019 through 2022. Additionally, five 737 MAX 8 firm orders were shifted from 2019 into fourth quarter 2018, and three pre-owned
WOW air’s first A330neo aircraft has rolled out of the paint shop in Toulouse. The low-fare airline based in Iceland will take delivery of the aircraft on lease from Avolon later in 2018, becoming the third operator of the type worldwide. WOW air is an all-Airbus operator with a fleet of 18 aircraft (15 A320
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise’s (DAE) leasing division, DAE Capital, has delivered its first new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to Bahrain flag carrier Gulf Air. The delivery took place at the Boeing delivery center in Everett, USA. DAE first announced the agreement to lease five Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners with PDP financing to Gulf Air in November of last
Airbus and Rolls-Royce have signed a collaboration agreement for the integration of Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan® demonstrator for flight testing. The integration solutions demonstration will be co-funded by Clean Sky 2, the European Union research programme focused on developing technology to reduce emissions. UltraFan is a scalable jet engine design suitable for widebody or single-aisle aircraft and
GE Aviation’s GEnx-1B engines will power Turkish Airlines’ 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and five options, which were ordered last month. The airline also signed a 15-year TrueChoice™ Flight Hour agreement with GE for maintenance, repair and overhaul for the GEnx-1B engines ordered. “The GEnx engine offers the optimum reliability, utilization and fuel efficiency of any
Airbus Helicopters has secured an additional order of one H225 helicopter from the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), bringing JCG’s H225 fleet to ten units. JCG currently operates three AS332s and five H225s, both from the Super Puma family. With this new order, the customer’s Super Puma fleet will grow to 13 units by March 2021,
Ryanair has announced the exercising of 25 Boeing 737 MAX 200 “Gamechanger” options and in so doing now has 135 firm orders for the new higher-capacity variant of the 737 MAX 8. Ryanair first placed an order for 100 of the “Gamechanger” jets, with an option for a further ten, at the Paris Airshow in
