Air ASTANA : KC ! KZR !

Le portefeuille client d’Embraer s’est étoffé. L’avionneur brésilien a annoncé le 17 novembre qu’il avait conclu un accord avec la compagnie kazakhe Air Astana. Il porte sur l’acquisition de deux ERJ 190.

Les E-Jets figurent déjà sur le carnet de commandes d’Embraer. Ils seront intégrés à la flotte d’Air Astana au moyen d’un contrat de leasing avec la société américaine Jetscape.

La compagnie a choisi de les doter d’une cabine biclasse de 97 places, neuf en classe affaires et 88 en classe économique.

Livrés à partir du premier trimestre 2011, les ERJ 190 permettront à Air Astana de développer son réseau domestique et régional en Asie Centrale.

Air Astana in Talks to Acquire Three Dreamliners From Boeing

Air Astana, a venture between the Kazakh government and BAE Systems Plc, is in talks to acquire three Boeing Co. 787-8 planes, President Peter Foster said.

The airline aims to receive the Dreamliner jets in 2014 if the talks conclude with an order, Foster told reporters today in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s biggest city. That order, plus the planned acquisition of six A320s from Airbus SAS, would lead Air Astana to invest more than $500 million through 2015, Foster said.

The list price for the A320 is $81.4 million, according to Airbus. Chicago-based Boeing says the 787-8 lists in a range from $161 million to $171.5 million. Foster didn’t specify what discounts Astana would receive. Astana said in December 2007, without specifying the cost, that it planned to acquire six A320s and three 787-8s.

Air Astana expects to carry 2.5 million passengers this year on domestic flights in Kazakhstan, an increase of more than 20 percent from 2009, Foster said.

It plans to take a first delivery of Embraer 190 aircraft from Brazil’s Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA early next year. The planes will be used on services within the country of 16 million people, which is about four times the size of Texas and is central Asia’s largest energy producer.

Air Astana is 51 percent-owned by the state and 49 percent by London-based BAE, Europe’s biggest defense contractor.

National Wellbeing Fund Samruk-Kazyna, the Kazakh parent of Air Astana, “has medium term plans to do partial listing of some of its units,” Foster said. “We don’t know whether Air Astana will be included in that list.”

Air Astana mulls 767-300ER order as it awaits 787

Kazakhstan's Air Astana is in talks with Boeing to order up to six new 767-300ERs for a 2013-2014 delivery, President Peter Foster told ATW in Almaty. Foster said the aircraft could serve as an interim solution as it awaits the 787, the first of which it now does not expect to receive until 2019 owing to the program's multiple delays .
KC's MOU for three 787s plus three options, signed in January 2008, is "inactive" but has not been canceled, Foster said .
The MOU called for KC to receive its first Dreamliner in 2014 or 2015.
KC's fleet comprises four 757-200s, two 767-300ERs, one Airbus A319, seven A320s, two A321s, five F50s and one Embraer E-190. The four 757s are on leases that will expire in 2012 but be extended to 2014, Foster said, noting the carrier will add a fifth 757 this year.
KC was scheduled to take delivery of the first of six E-190s on Saturday. Two E-190s will be leased from ILFC and two from Air Lease Corp. The carrier will have three E-190s in operation this year, with three more to come in 2012. The E-190s will be deployed on regional routes from ALA to Samara or Tbilisi from June 3.
The first of six new A320 family aircraft—an A321—will be delivered in November 2012, followed by a second delivery in December 2012. Four new A320s will join KC's fleet in 2013, replacing older aircraft. Five Fokker F50s will be phased out by 2012, said Foster.

Jeannot a écrit:Précision sur l'évolution de la flotte d'Air Astana

Air Astana mulls 767-300ER order as it awaits 787

Kazakhstan's Air Astana is in talks with Boeing to order up to six new 767-300ERs for a 2013-2014 delivery, President Peter Foster told ATW in Almaty. Foster said the aircraft could serve as an interim solution as it awaits the 787, the first of which it now does not expect to receive until 2019 owing to the program's multiple delays .

KC's MOU for three 787s plus three options, signed in January 2008, is "inactive" but has not been canceled, Foster said .

The MOU called for KC to receive its first Dreamliner in 2014 or 2015.

KC's fleet comprises four 757-200s, two 767-300ERs, one Airbus A319, seven A320s, two A321s, five F50s and one Embraer E-190. The four 757s are on leases that will expire in 2012 but be extended to 2014, Foster said, noting the carrier will add a fifth 757 this year.
KC was scheduled to take delivery of the first of six E-190s on Saturday. Two E-190s will be leased from ILFC and two from Air Lease Corp. The carrier will have three E-190s in operation this year, with three more to come in 2012. The E-190s will be deployed on regional routes from ALA to Samara or Tbilisi from June 3.
The first of six new A320 family aircraft—an A321—will be delivered in November 2012, followed by a second delivery in December 2012. Four new A320s will join KC's fleet in 2013, replacing older aircraft. Five Fokker F50s will be phased out by 2012, said Foster.

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Friday, January 04, 2008 Air Astana order for Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines to power three Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners with options on another three jetliners. The engine contract was valued at $90 million with first deliveries due in 2016. The deal was announced on January 4, 2008.

Air Astana signs for two Embraer 190s

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] has signed a deal for two Embraer 190 jets and taken options on two more.
Under the deal, deliveries to the Kazakh carrier will begin in the first half of next year. The deal is valued at $171.2 million, including options.
"The Embraer 190's range, efficiency and size are ideal to increase services on some highly frequented routes and to start new routes in central Asia, especially towards Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as southern Russia and Georgia," said Air Astana president Peter Foster.
Air Astana has been operating two Embraer 190 jets since last month under a lease agreement with Jetscape and will receive two additional aircraft in 2011 and 2012, in a lease agreement with Air Lease, bringing its fleet to six Embraer 190 jets.

Kazakhstan-based Air Astana (KC) is purchasing four Boeing 767-300ERs and three 787-8s in an order worth $1.3 billion at list prices. It is the largest ever in Kazakhstan’s civil aviation history.

The 767s will be delivered in 2013 and 2014 and the 787s in 2017 and 2019, the airline said.

At a press conference Sunday in Almaty, KC chairman Nurzhan Baidauletov said the introduction of the Dreamliner “will place Air Astana amongst the leading airlines of the world in terms of operating the highest quality, environmentally friendly air services.” Baidauletov also stressed that KC would not require state or shareholder funds for the purchases, but “will fund the new aircraft through a combination of its own cash and financial instruments through the air finance market.”

KC president Peter Foster said the 767s, equipped with winglets, would replace the two leased aircraft of this type and progressively replace its leased 757s.

KC also announced its 2011 net profit declined by 19% to $61.9 million. Capacity grew by 15% and the number of passengers carried increased 16% to just over 3 million. Revenue was $760 million, up 16%.

Foster said the decline in profitability was entirely due to fuel price rises of more than 130% over 2010. Nonetheless, “a net margin of 8.1% is very respectable by industry standards and ahead of our 10-year average,” he said.

During the year the airline introduced its first three Embraer E-190 regional jets and one additional 757. It launched new services to Samara in Russia and Tbilisi in Georgia and increased frequencies on most of other routes.