Geneva-based PrivatAir announced an order for one Boeing 787-8 VIP airplane, a purchase-right exercise from PrivatAir’s initial 787 order in 2006. This latest order is valued at $162 million. Through this agreement, PrivatAir has two 787s on order and has secured an additional purchase right.
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Boeing announced that first flight of the 787 has been moved from the end of the first quarter of this year to around the end of the second quarter to provide additional time to complete assembly of the first airplane. Deliveries are now expected to begin in early 2009, rather than late 2008. “The fundamental
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Embraer delivered two new Ipanema aircraft to the Brazilian Air Force (For
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Flight Options, a leading provider of private-jet travel services, has signed a Citation X super mid-size aircraft to its managed fleet. This is the fifth aircraft to join Flight Options
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Ryanair announced its 25th European base in Birmingham with an initial two Boeing 737-800 aircraft ($140 million investment) which will deliver 20 new routes from Birmingham. This will be followed by a further 8 Boeing 737-800 aircraft ($560 million investment) which will deliver 5 million passengers annually and sustain 5,000 jobs in the West Midlands.
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Virgin Atlantic said it will fly one of its Boeing 747s on biofuel during a demonstration flight in February. It will be the first time that a commercial aircraft has run biofuel in-flight and is part of a major initiative among some airlines and Boeing to discover sources of sustainable aircraft fuel for the future.
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Continental Airlines took delivery of the airline’s first Next-Generation 737-900ER (Extended Range) airplane. With this delivery, Continental becomes the first airline in the Americas to operate the 737-900ER, a higher-capacity, longer-range derivative and newest member of the Next-Generation 737 airplane family. Continental currently has 26 more on order. The ailine this year expects to take
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BOC Aviation has signed agreements with India’s Jet Airways for the lease of five more Boeing Next Generation 737s. The aircraft will be delivered new from the Boeing final assembly line between March 2010 and November 2011. The aircraft will be leased to the airline for a period of 10 years each. The latest deals
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Bristow Group a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, announced the acquisition of eight new aircraft. Bristow has exercised options to acquire two S-92 and three S-76C++ helicopters from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and three EC225 helicopters from Eurocopter, a division of EADS. The combined value of these purchases is approximately $143 million
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