Republic Airways Holdings has amended its capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide for the addition of eight dual-class E170 aircraft. The aircraft are expected to be placed into Delta Connection service between May and September 2011 and will have a term of six years from the in-service date for Delta. After the
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation finalized and executed a definitive Purchase Agreement with Trans States Holdings (TSH) for an order of 100 next-generation Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) aircraft (50 firm, 50 options) on December 27, 2010. TSH, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is an airline holding company that owns and operates three independent airlines, Trans States Airlines,
Titan Airways, the VIP charter specialist, is adding an Avro RJ100 regional jet to its fleet. The aircraft will join Titan
Air Lease Corporation (ALC), the aircraft financing and leasing company, has taken delivery of its first brand new A320 aircraft directly ordered from Airbus and to be leased to and operated by Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand has designed a one-off livery for the new aircraft as part of its Crazy About Rugby campaign,
Embraer and Dniproavia, a member of the Ukrainian Aviation Group Alliance, came to an arrangement,regarding the delivery of ten EMBRAER 190s, with options for another five jets. The aircraft will be operated by Dniproavia, in cooperation with another alliance member, AeroSvit, and will be placed under a lease structure to be arranged by a third
Bombardier Aerospace has received firm orders from an undisclosed customer for two Challenger and six Global jets. The transaction is valued at approximately $383 million based on the 2010 list price for typically equipped aircraft.
Boeing Training & Flight Services has signed a long-term agreement with Blue1 to provide 717 training capabilities in Stockholm, Sweden, beginning the first quarter of 2011. Blue1 is a Scandinavian Airlines’ subsidiary based in Helsinki, Finland. Blue1 operates five Boeing 717s with an additional four scheduled to enter its fleet by the end of March
GECAS reported the delivery of two new Boeing 737-86N aircraft to Shanghai Airlines Company. Last year, China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai announced plans to merge, with Shanghai operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary. GECAS leases a total of 32 aircraft to both carriers. The delivery comes from GECAS
IAC AR, the Russian certification authority has granted Type Certification for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 airplane. The Type Certificate confirms the compliance of the aircraft with the IAC certification norms and airworthiness directives thus opening the way to start commercial operation. Simultaneously the IAC AR, basing on the audit of the aircraft development quality system
