As of January 1st, 2013, Golden Air is refining its strategy to enhance the focus on Wet lease and Ad hoc Charter in Europe. As part of the strategy Golden Air will change the company name to Braathens Regional. Golden Air is owned by Braathens Aviation (75%) and the change of name and refinement of
Air France Industries inaugurated its new engine test cell on November 15th, at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. The outcome of a €43m investment program, the new facility, called ZEPHYR, will serve to test some 300 engines each year, including over 100 Very Big Engines (VBE), delivering an optimized service to clients in terms of processes
Hainan Airlines selected GE Aviation’s GEnx-1B engines to power its two additional Boeing 787 aircraft. This bring Hainan Airlines’ total GEnx-powered Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet to 10 aircraft. Hainan Airlines also expanded its long-term service agreement to include the additional GEnx engines. As part of the agreement, Hainan’s GEnx engine fleet will be maintained in
Boeing and SilkAir have finalized an order for 54 Next-Generation 737s and 737 MAX 8s worth $4.9bn at list prices. With this agreement, the 737 MAX has accumulated 969 orders to date. SilkAir’s order for 23 737-800s and 31 737 MAX 8s is the largest order in the airline’s history and begins a fleet transition
Boeing and LOT Polish Airlines celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Polish carrier is the first European airline to take delivery of the 787. LOT will operate the 787 on short-haul flights across Europe in December, and will introduce the Dreamliner on its long-haul passenger service from Warsaw to Chicago
The U.S. Army has awarded EADS North America a $181.8m contract option to deliver 34 additional UH-72A Lakota helicopters, bringing the total aircraft ordered to date to 312. Army plans call for procuring 347 Lakotas through 2016. EADS North America has delivered 243 Lakotas from its American Eurocopter facility in Columbus, Miss., where up to
ACE Aviation Holdings (ACE) has sold to Cormark Securities, as investment dealer, a total of 31m shares of Air Canada and 2.5m warrants to purchase Air Canada shares at exercise prices of $1.51 (1.25m warrants) and $1.44 (1.25m warrants), for total net proceeds to ACE of approximately $58m. As a result, ACE no longer holds
TransAsia Airways has converted options for six A321neo aircraft with Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engines into firm orders. Pratt & Whitney will now power TransAsia’s order of 12 firm A321neo aircraft. The deal includes a 10-year PureSolution maintenance service agreement for 27 engines, including spare engines. Deliveries are scheduled to start in 2017.
CFM International’s LEAP family continues to be the engines of choice for next-generation single-aisle aircraft. The order for 50 LEAP-1C-powered C919 aircraft announced by COMAC at the Zhuhai Air Show pushed total LEAP engine orders and commitments to 4,352 engines at a list price value of more than US$52bn. CFM’s LEAP-1C is the sole Western
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), has won approval to provide technical support to LOT Polish Airlines’ Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is the first aircraft of its type to be operated from Europe. MAEL’s engineering team has worked tirelessly over several months to ensure that its new line maintenance facility in Warsaw, Poland is equipped with the
