Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, delivered a new A321 aircraft to Philippine Airlines (PAL). The delivery is Avolon’s sixth aircraft on lease to PAL, comprising five A320 family aircraft and one A330 aircraft.
On December 30th, 2014, Finnair signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Doric Asset Finance GmbH for the sale and leaseback of six ATR72 aircraft. The transaction has now been concluded. The value of the transaction was approximately €80m and it has a positive impact of approximately €30m on Finnair operating profit in 2015. The
Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, delivered a second Boeing 737-800 to Aeromexico. The delivery is the second of four B737-800 aircraft scheduled for delivery to Aeromexico by Avolon. Avolon also delivered the first of four Boeing 787-9 to Virgin Atlantic.
Bombardier has delivered its first Learjet 75 aircraft to an undisclosed customer based in Poland following certification by the authorities of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority. “Learjet has a heritage than spans more than 50 years and remains a standard for high-performing business jets,” said Valeria Kolyuchaya, Regional Vice President, Sales, Eastern Europe, Russia and
RwandAir, the national flag carrier of the Republic of Rwanda, has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for two A330s. The agreement makes RwandAir a new Airbus customer and the first airline in East Africa to order the A330. RwandAir’s A330s will be delivered in the second half of 2016 and will be equipped with
Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, delivered its first Boeing 787-9 to Virgin Atlantic. The delivery is the first of four B787-9 aircraft scheduled for delivery to Virgin Atlantic by Avolon.
Airbus has celebrated the delivery of its 9000th aircraft at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany on 20th March 2015. The aircraft is the first A321 to be delivered to Vietnamese carrier VietJetAir and will join the carrier’s all-Airbus A320 Family fleet flying on its fast-growing Asia-Pacific network. VietJetAir first took to the skies at the end
Finnair signed on December 17th, 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GOAL German Operating Aircraft Leasing GmbH for the sale and leaseback of three Embraer 190 aircraft. The transaction has now been concluded. The value of the transaction was approximately 60 million euros at current market value and the transaction will not have a
Air Lease Corporation (AL) announced long-term lease agreements with Air Austral for two new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Both aircraft are from ALC’s order book with Boeing and are scheduled to deliver in the fall of 2016.
Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland and Weststar General Aviation announced that a contract for three helicopters, one AW119Kx, one GrandNew and one AW169, was signed on March 18th, at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) Exhibition 2015. With this order, Weststar Group will now start operating AgustaWestland helicopters also for executive/corporate transport services through its subsidiary Weststar General
