AWAS has delivered a new Airbus A320-200 aircraft to Royal Jordanian, the second of seven new aircraft as part of the agreement reached earlier this year. This placement is part of Royal Jordanian’s major fleet renewal programme, to offer its customers superior comfort while driving enhanced efficiencies across its network. This second A320 will be
British Airways has selected Airbus Flight Hour Services (FHS) to provide aircraft inventory support for its A380 fleet of aircraft. The FHS agreement, which will run for 15 years, provides an extensive scope of A380 line replaceable units (LRUs), spare parts, repairs and logistics services to British Airways Engineering. In addition, it will feature the deployment
Saab AB has signed a new three-year PEP (Parts Exchange Program) agreement with Scottish Loganair, which flies the Saab 340. Loganair has 16 Saab 340 aircraft and the new agreement encompasses component repairs and maintenance service within the PEP framework at the Aircraft Services division in the Support and Services business area. PEP, Parts Exchange Program, is
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is supporting its first transaction in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan: the purchase of Boeing Next-Generation 737-900ER aircraft by Somon Air, a privately owned airline based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This is Boeing’s first sale to Somon Air and the first export of its 737-900ER and
Ethiopian Airlines ordered four Boeing 777 Freighters, making Ethiopian Airlines the first African carrier to order the twin-engine freighter. The order is valued at approximately $1.1 billion at list prices and was previously attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing’s website.
Boeing and Lion Air, an all-Boeing Next-Generation 737 operator, are pioneering the use of precision navigation technology in South Asia with the introduction of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) flight operations. RNP enables airplanes, using global positioning systems, to fly precisely predefined flight paths without reliance on ground-based navigation stations. Lion Air, together with Boeing and
Nextant Aerospace, which introduced the concept of remanufacturing to the business jet market, has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for its Nextant 400XT aircraft, the first completely remanufactured business jet. The FAA Certification is the final step in the approval process for the 400XT, a plane that is the equivalent of a new jet at a cost approximately half that
AWAS has finalized the acquisition of two Boeing 737-800’s and one Airbus A330-200 passenger aircraft from another lessor. The two 737’s are already on long-term leases to current AWAS customer Garuda Indonesia, and the widebody Airbus A330-200 is on lease to Qantas.
Boeing forecasts that air carriers in North America will take delivery of 7,530 new airplanes over the next 20 years at a market value of $760 billion. Taking retirements of airplanes into account, the North America fleet will grow from 6,610 airplanes today to about 9,330 airplanes by 2030. Demand in the United States and
Eurocopter has successfully tested a hybrid helicopter that combines a turboshaft internal combustion engine with an electric motor for a world premiere, marking a new milestone in its innovation roadmap that opens the way for further enhancements in rotary-wing aircraft safety. For this initial breakthrough in exploring the hybrid concept, Eurocopter is using the supplemental
