The Airbus A350 XWB has made its debut in Australia, landing at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International airport on August 5th, after flying in from Johannesburg, South Africa. The aircraft is operated by Airbus flight crews and while in Sydney, a representative airline schedule operation has to be demonstrated such as normal airline turnarounds, using airport
Air Transport Services Group announced that its aircraft leasing subsidiary, Cargo Aircraft Management, has agreed to purchase two Boeing 767-300ER freighters that ATSG’s airline subsidiary ABX Air currently leases from Guggenheim Aviation Partners. CAM expects to pay Guggenheim $49.9m for the freighters in transactions expected to close at the end of the third quarter. ABX
AgustaWestland announced the sale of one more AW139 intermediate twin-engine helicopter in VIP/corporate transport configuration for an undisclosed customer in North America. This latest contract continues the growing success of the AW139 for VIP transport mission in this key market, bringing the total number of aircraft sold in North America to 19. The latest AW139
Rolls-Royce reported that International Airlines Group (IAG) converted eight Airbus A350-900 options into firm orders, powered by Trent XWB engines. The engines will have long-term TotalCare service support. The A350-900 aircraft will go into service with IAG’s Spanish airline Iberia, which will become a new operator of the Trent XWB. In April 2013, IAG ordered
AWAS has agreed to the lease of one Airbus A330-200 aircraft with BH Air, an established charter operator based in Sofia, Bulgaria. This widebody aircraft is from AWAS’ existing portfolio and has delivered on July 31st. The aircraft is the first of its type as well as the first widebody aircraft for BH Air.
ANA Holdings has firmed up an order for 30 A320neo Family aircraft (seven A320neo and 23 A321neo). The initial agreement was announced in March 2014. Deliveries will start from 2016. ANA’s A320neo Family will be equipped with Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM engines.
The handover of the first EC145 T2 to DRF Luftrettung marks yet another milestone for Airbus Helicopters in the successful program for the BK117/EC145 family. In spring 2014, the latest addition to the family received certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency EASA and is now ready to take on a wide variety of missions.
Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) finalized an order for 40 widebody airplanes – 20 777-9Xs, 14 787-9 Dreamliners and six 777-300ERs (Extended Range) – as part of the airline’s strategic long-haul fleet renewal plan. The order, valued at approximately $13bn at list prices, was originally announced as a commitment in March.
PEMCO World Air Services announced the redelivery of three more 737-300 freighters to Yangtze River Express (Shanghai China) over the past several weeks. Yangtze River Express, which manages the cargo operations of Hainan Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and other members of the Hainan Air Group, has already placed two of the freighters (MSN 28599, MSN
An airline, which has requested to remain unidentified at the present time, has signed a firm purchase agreement for five Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners. Based on the list price for the Q400 NextGen airliner, the transaction is valued at approximately US$168m.
