All Orders & deliveries articles – Page 22

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    Comac gets post-pandemic boost from China Express order

    2020-06-11T06:53:00Z

    China Express Airlines has signed a partnership agreement framework with Comac for the purchase of 100 ARJ21 and C919 aircraft. The deal, subject to shareholder approval, did not specify how many of either aircraft type the Guizhou-based carrier will be taking, nor did it indicate a value. However ...

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    Boeing logs new 767F orders in May though aircraft cancellations continue

    2020-06-09T15:25:00Z

    Boeing received new orders for six 767 Freighters in May, though the company’s aircraft backlog declined by 90 jets in the month due largely to order cancellations and other negative adjustments.

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    Airline Business

    Asia-Pacific deliveries see slight uptick in May

    2020-06-09T02:06:00Z

    Asia-Pacific airlines received 11 of the 23 passenger airliners delivered globally during May, amid continued challenges stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. During the month, European carriers received seven new aircraft, and North American carriers four, according to Cirium fleets data as of 17 June. The remaining aircraft, an Airbus A350-1000, ...

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    Clark: Don’t write off A380, but global vaccine crucial

    2020-06-05T14:30:00Z

    Emirates Airline president Tim Clark expects the Airbus A380 will continue to be a “hugely potent” tool but this will hinge on the roll-out of a vaccine programme

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    Wizz Air takes delivery of first A320neo

    2020-06-04T07:51:00Z

    Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320neo, about 15 months after it received its first A321neo. The airline says the aircraft, fitted with Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines, bears the Hungarian registration HA-LJA. It brings the carrier’s overall fleet to 122 jets, all ...

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    TUI rejigs 737 Max deliveries as part of compensation deal

    2020-06-03T20:53:00Z

    Leisure giant TUI Group is has rejigged Boeing 737 Max deliveries to reduce the intake over the next few years, under a broad agreement with the airframer to compensate for the type’s grounding. TUI Group says it has revised the delivery schedule for the 61 Max jets on order, postponing ...

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    SMBC eyes purchase and leaseback opportunities as airlines face finance crunch

    2020-06-03T16:58:00Z

    SMBC Aviation Capital’s efforts to support customers impacted by the coronavirus crisis have included purchase and leaseback deals where airlines are in need of financial support.

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    ​SMBC Max deferrals linked to programme’s ‘challenge’, not coronavirus

    2020-06-03T16:28:00Z

    SMBC Aviation Capital is the latest customer to reach agreement with Boeing around deferral of 737 Max deliveries

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    SAS pushes A320neo deliveries to 2024

    2020-05-28T16:00:00Z

    SAS has agreed with Airbus to delay delivery of four A320neos and is in talks with the airframer on further deferrals as the Scandinavian carrier prepares for a slow recovery in traffic after the coronavirus crisis.

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    SAS to defer Airbus deliveries as it overhauls business plan

    2020-05-28T07:05:00Z

    Scandinavia’s SAS is to defer and review future Airbus deliveries and those from lessors, as part of its response to the coronavirus crisis, as it continues to pursue additional funding. The airline is drawing up a revised business plan which aims to bring SKr4 billion ($417 million) in improvements by ...

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    AerCap pushes back deliveries of 37 aircraft

    2020-05-26T15:54:00Z

    Leasing giant AerCap is deferring deliveries of 37 aircraft which it had expected to introduce over the course of the next two years. AerCap says the measure brings to more than 100 the number of aircraft it had been intending to receive over 2020-22. The 37 which are the subject ...

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    El Al awaiting final 787 as it cancels 737 leases

    2020-05-14T19:25:00Z

    Israeli flag-carrier El Al has yet to take delivery of its final Boeing 787, while the airline shuffles its current fleet as part of efforts to reduce cash burn. The carrier’s rejig includes cancelling a lease for two more Boeing 737-800s, it has disclosed in a newly-released full-year financial statement. ...

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    Mainline deliveries slump by over 50% during first four months

    2020-05-13T10:19:00Z

    Deliveries across the two mainline aircraft manufacturers’ production lines fell by more than half during the first four months to less than 200 aircraft, as the coronavirus pandemic began to have a major effect.

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    Qantas postpones new Airbus, Boeing deliveries

    2020-05-13T07:16:00Z

    Qantas is pushing back aircraft deliveries for as long as the Covid-19 pandemic persists. “We have advised Boeing and Airbus that we won’t be taking delivery of any new aircraft while the current [Covid-19] crisis continues and present levels of uncertainty persist,” the carrier tells Cirium. “Naturally ...

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    Time to revive export credit financing: BOC Aviation chief

    2020-05-12T14:48:00Z

    Leading lessor believes government-backed financing in wake of the airline industry crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic.

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    BOC Aviation chief sees 2020 deliveries at ‘lower end of 600-1,000’ range

    2020-05-12T10:04:00Z

    Mainline jet deliveries will be heading down significantly this year as the impact of the coronavirus takes its toll from both a demand and supply-chain perspective, warns BOC Aviation chief executive Robert Martin.

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    Airline Business

    Asia-Pacific April deliveries collapse amid travel restrictions

    2020-05-11T01:46:00Z

    Asia-Pacific airlines received just two new aircraft during April 2020, as travel restrictions stemming from the coronavirus epidemic played havoc with delivery schedules. Only two Chinese carriers received new jets, according to Cirium fleets data. Loong Air took an Airbus A320neo and Chengdu Airlines took a Comac ARJ21. ...

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    First German government A350 arrives for outfitting in Hamburg

    2020-05-07T18:02:00Z

    Airbus has transferred the first of three A350-900s for the federal German government to Hamburg for outfitting at the Lufthansa Technik facility. The aircraft flew from the airframer’s Hamburg Finkenwerder plant to the city’s main international airport on 7 May. It bears the civil registration D-AGAF but will be re-registered ...

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    Airbus delivered nearly 100 fewer aircraft over first four months

    2020-05-07T16:29:00Z

    Airbus delivered just 14 aircraft during April as the full effects of the coronavirus crisis on its production operation became evident, a total down by 80% on the 70 deliveries achieved in the same month last year. The airframer registered only a single order – for nine A320neo-family jets from ...

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    IAG scales back planned deliveries to 75 over next three years

    2020-05-07T09:20:00Z

    British Airways and Iberia parent IAG now expects to take delivery of 75 aircraft over the next three years as it reduces its fleet requirements in line with expectations that passenger demand will not return to pre-crisis levels before 2023. The new fleet plan marks a reduction of 68 on ...