GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing arm of GE, delivered a new leased Airbus A330-300 aircraft to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, as part of the airline’s fleet renewal program. The aircraft is part of GECAS’ existing order book with Airbus. The KLM Group currently operates a
Seattle-based Horizon Air has converted two of seven previously acquired Q400 NextGen aircraft options to firm orders. The airline retains its options on another five Q400 NextGen aircraft. Horizon Air and its sister carrier, Alaska Airlines are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group. Based on the list price of the Q400 NextGen aircraft, the purchase agreement
Boeing and Thai Airways International (THAI) celebrated the Thai flag-carrier’s 75th direct delivery of a Boeing airplane. Marking the milestone delivery, Boeing and THAI collaborated to transport 1,000 wool blankets onboard THAI’s newly delivered 777-300ER (Extended Range). The blankets, donated by Another Joy Foundation, will be distributed by the airline to people in need in
International Airfinance Corporation (“IAFC”) has signed a firm purchase agreement for five Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The agreement also includes options for an additional four A330-200 aircraft. Based on list price, the contract value for IAFC’s transaction covering five Airbus A330-200 aircraft and four options is approximately US$2bn. Firm Aircraft are already placed on long term
Germany based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider Lufthansa Technik and the Brazilian low fare airline Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras have signed a comprehensive long-term component supply contract for the airline’s Airbus A330 fleet of seven A330-200 aircraft. The contract will run until end of 2019. Azul, Brazil’s largest airline by number of cities served,
Fokker Services, part of Fokker Technologies, reported that a total of thirty-six Fokker aircraft were placed with four new as well as nine existing Fokker operators during 2014 by their respective aircraft sellers and lessors. These comprise thirteen Fokker 50s, ten Fokker 70s and seven Fokker 100s. In addition, leases were extended on two Fokker
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft joined the fleet of Russian airline — Red Wings. The aircraft with tail number RA-89021 was ferried from the Delivery Center of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company to Domodedovo International Airport — home base of the airline. In just a couple of days the SSJ100 delivered to Red Wings will be
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft welcomed leasing company Elix Aviation Capital Limited (“Elix”) to the family of Q400 aircraft owners and operators. Elix is taking an assignment of three Q400 NextGen aircraft previously booked by an existing Bombardier customer. Dublin-based Elix was launched in September 2013 with the equity backing of Oaktree Capital Management, a premier global
Rolls-Royce celebrated a milestone at the company’s Seletar Campus with the unveiling of a Trent 1000 engine, the first to be made in Singapore for Singapore’s very own long-haul budget carrier, Scoot. The Trent 1000, which is fully assembled and tested by a team of 80, will provide power to Scoot’s new fleet of 20
Pratt & Whitney and Kawasaki Heavy Industries met to commemorate the signing of a risk and revenue-sharing collaboration agreement for KHI to provide key hardware modules for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines. Pratt & Whitney currently has 10 worldwide GTF collaboration partners, many of which work across multiple GTF engine variants to
