Qatar Airways and Airbus announced the highly anticipated date of the official delivery of the first of its 80 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft on order, set to take place in Toulouse, France, on Saturday December 13th. The A350 XWB is a family of mid-sized wide-body airliners designed to enhance fuel, operating costs and environmental efficiencies
Air Lease Corporation announced long term lease agreements with Sunwing Airlines (Canada) covering two new Boeing 737-800 aircraft and four new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. These aircraft, all from ALC’s order book, are scheduled to deliver over a four year period commencing in 2016. President of Sunwing Airlines, Mark Williams, commented, “The acquisition of
2015 should bring increasingly good news for customers and passengers of the Lufthansa Group, according to the plans of the Deutsche Lufthansa AG Executive Board. The Supervisory Board gave the formal go-ahead to the ‘Wings’ concept presented by the Executive Board at its meeting on December 3rd, and approved the lease of up to seven
A ceremony was held on December 3rd, at the Airbus (Tianjin) site to celebrate the 200th A320 Family aircraft assembled by the Airbus Tianjin Final Assembly Line (FALC). Daniel Baubil, Airbus Executive Vice President and Head of Single Aisle Family Programme handed over the A319, a member of the A320 Family, to China Eastern Airlines.
CIT Group, a global leader in transportation finance, announced that CIT Aerospace has signed purchase agreements with Airbus for 15 A330-900neo (new engine option) aircraft and five A321-200ceo (current engine option) aircraft. Deliveries of the A330-900neo are scheduled to begin in 2018 and deliveries of the A321-200ceo are scheduled to begin in 2015. The A330-800neo
Finnair has firmed up the eight Airbus A350 XWB aircraft options in its 2006 A350 order placed with Airbus. The eight A350s will be delivered to Finnair starting in 2018. At Airbus list prices, the value of the additional eight A350 aircraft would be approximately €1.9bn. The firm up of the options increases the total
NetJets, a Berkshire Hathaway company and the worldwide leader in private aviation, took delivery of its 50th Signature Series aircraft. This is the third Challenger 350 to enter the fleet since June – the first one was delivered on June 28th, 2014. NetJets has orders with several aircraft manufacturers for up to 670 new state-of-the-art
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft officially welcomed Investec Bank to the family of Q400 aircraft lessors as Thai premium low-cost carrier Nok Air and the international bank and asset manager closed the sale and leaseback of two extra capacity Bombardier Q400 NextGen airliners. The 86-seat aircraft recently joined the carrier’s fleet as part of a purchase agreement
Azul Brazilian Airlines has signed a purchase agreement for 35 A320neo Family aircraft. The airline, which is also leasing another 28 A320neo aircraft, has chosen the A320neo Family to carry out domestic long haul flights and high density routes, including Campinas – Salvador and Campinas – Recife. For Azul, an important driver for selecting the
On November 26th, 2014, the seventh Sukhoi Superjet 100 in its long range version was delivered to the Russian airline Gazpromavia. The SSJ100 with the tail number RA-89048 took off from the Delivery Centre of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, and landed in Ostafyevo International Business Airport, Gazpromavia home base. Gazpromavia is
