Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, extended its OnPoint solution agreement with GE Aviation for an additional five years on the fleet of GE90 engines that power the airline’s Boeing 777- 300ER. The extension, valued at more than $200m, ensures GE will provide the maintenance, repair and overhaul of 22 GE90 engines through 2022. Also,
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified two new thrust ratings for the GP7200 engine. The first, GP7272, allows the GP7200 engine to operate at 72,000 pounds of thrust (lbf). The second, GP7272E, allows the engine to operate with the same thrust at higher ambient temperature environments. The GP7200 engine now has four thrust
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Lufthansa Technik AG, headquartered in Hamburg, are expanding their long-standing close partnership even further. Under a new agreement that takes effect immediately and runs through the end of 2018, Lufthansa Technik will take on more than 150 C-checks for the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737NG and Airbus A320 family aircraft.
SMBC Aviation Capital, the world’s third largest aircraft lessor, has placed a firm order with Airbus for 110 A320neo aircraft and five A320ceo aircraft in a deal worth around $11.8bn at list prices. The deal is the largest single-aisle aircraft order ever placed by a lessor and the largest aircraft order of any kind by
Philippine Airlines has executed a Letter of Intent to power its order of 10 Airbus A320neo aircraft with Pratt & Whitney PurePower engines. The PurePower Geared Turbofan engine family has completed nearly 10,000 hours of testing and more than 1,400 hours of flight testing. The Letter of Intent between Philippine Airlines and Pratt & Whitney
CIT Group, a global leader in transportation finance, announced from the Farnborough International Air Show that CIT Aerospace has placed an order with Boeing for 10 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
Japan’s Fuji Dream Airlines signed a firm order of three E175s with options for an additional three aircraft of the same model. This brings the total potential order to six E175s. This order was already included in Embraer’s 2014 second quarter backlog as an “undisclosed” customer. Embraer has signed a firm order for two additional
SaudiGulf Airlines has selected the International Aero Engines V2500 engine to power four A320ceo aircraft and has also signed an eight-year V-Services maintenance service agreement with IAE. SaudiGulf is a new airline based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with headquarters in Dammam and is planning to commence services in 2015.
International Airlines Group (IAG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with International Aero Engines’ (IAE) for V2500 engines. IAE will power 30 A320ceo aircraft for the IAG subsidiary, Vueling Airlines. These aircraft were part of an IAG order announced in August 2013.
Microturbo and Pratt & Whitney AeroPower, reported that Microturbo will assume full responsibility for the design, production, product support and service of the APS2[800] and APS500[D] APU programs for Bombardier and Dassault Aviation. The companies will also extend their existing relationship to allow collaboration on future business jet and regional APU programs. In such cases,
