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Given that commitments for Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental have been rarer than hen's teeth - Korean and kings of the new aircraft type, Lufthansa, being the only airlines to order thus far - it's probably a welcome relief for Boeing that another carrier, Nigeria's Arik Air, has [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. OK, it's only for two aircraft (and not the potential five that Arik once promised) but orders is orders...

Arik Air's order for two Boeing 747-8 Intercontinentals is the latest step in the Nigerian carrier's on-off relationship with the newest incarnation of the iconic airliner.

The order, worth $635 million at list prices, was disclosed yesterday. It had previously appeared in Boeing's order totals as an unidentified customer dating from 15 June.

Arik's interest in the 747-8I goes back to May 2008 when it signed a letter of intent for three of the type. This commitment was firmed up at the Farnborough air show in July that year with the order increased to four aircraft with one option.

However, as programme delays mounted the carrier brought in capacity from elsewhere - notably Airbus A340-500s - and began to talk about the possibility of ordering A380s instead of the revamped 747. Eventually talk of the order for the 747-8Is was dropped.

For Boeing, while not a huge shot in the arm for the programme - which has orders for 27 aircraft from 3 carriers (excluding VIP variants) - the order at least represents progress after the rows that have dogged the 747-8 Freighter in recent weeks.

Arik has an order backlog of eight 737-800s and seven 787-9s.

Turkmenistan to purchase Boeing aircrafts

TurkmenistanTurkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov signed a decree to purchase two aircrafts of Boeing-777-200LR brand, an official Turkmen source said on Saturday.
The deal will be concluded between the Sate National Service "Turkmen Hova Yullari" (Turkmen Airlines) and Boeing (USA).
The national air carrier, "Turkmen Hova Yullari" (Turkmen Airlines) actively uses Boeing aircrafts for international and domestic flights, outdated Soviet-type aircrafts were put up for sale.
Berdimuhamedov recently received Boeing director for sales to Central Asia and Europe Serdar Gurz. During the meeting, he approved a long-term plan of bilateral cooperation with the company Boeing, which was submitted for consideration.
Turkmenistan is interested in establishing relations also in the sphere of service and training of skilful staff for the country's civil aviation on the basis of Boeing.
At present, "Turkmen Hova Yullari" carries out flights to Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Britain, Turkey, UAE, Germany, Thailand, China, India and other countries.

Jeannot a écrit:Turkmenistan Airlines va prendre 2 777-200LR

Turkmenistan to purchase Boeing aircrafts

TurkmenistanTurkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov signed a decree to purchase two aircrafts of Boeing-777-200LR brand, an official Turkmen source said on Saturday.
The deal will be concluded between the Sate National Service "Turkmen Hova Yullari" (Turkmen Airlines) and Boeing (USA).
The national air carrier, "Turkmen Hova Yullari" (Turkmen Airlines) actively uses Boeing aircrafts for international and domestic flights, outdated Soviet-type aircrafts were put up for sale.
Berdimuhamedov recently received Boeing director for sales to Central Asia and Europe Serdar Gurz. During the meeting, he approved a long-term plan of bilateral cooperation with the company Boeing, which was submitted for consideration.
Turkmenistan is interested in establishing relations also in the sphere of service and training of skilful staff for the country's civil aviation on the basis of Boeing.
At present, "Turkmen Hova Yullari" carries out flights to Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Britain, Turkey, UAE, Germany, Thailand, China, India and other countries.

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GECAS firms order for six E-190s

Embraer said GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has inked a contract for six Embraer 190s, plus six options, with the right to convert to the E-195. The total value of the deal is $256.8 million at list prices. Delivery will begin in the 2012 fourth quarter, Embraer said.

Embraer said this new contract expands on the agreement for two E-190s announced at the Paris Air Show in June .

GECAS has 93 E-jets of all models on lease with 15 airlines around the world, and its portfolio now comes to 101 E-jets.

GECAS president and CEO Norm Liu said, “We continue to see strong demand for Embraer’s E-jets, as carriers of all types from around the world expand their point-to-point services. We have built a large base in the regional sector and we will continue to grow with these customers.”

Comlux orders Sukhoi's Superjet 100

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] airliner - just four months after the variant was announced at the Paris air show.

The order for two Sukhoi Business Jets, plus two options, was unveiled today by SuperJet International, the joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica and the Russian manufacturer, which is responsible for marketing the jet outside the former Soviet Union and Asia.

Swiss heavyweight Comlux has snubbed the industry’s big brands to become launch customer for the VIP version of Sukhoi’s Superjet 100 airliner – just four months after the variant was announced at the Paris air show.

The order for two Sukhoi Business Jets, plus two options, was unveiled today by SuperJet International, the joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica and the Russian manufacturer, which is responsible for marketing the jet outside the former Soviet Union and Asia.

The two aircraft will be delivered in 2014, three years after the first regional jet version entered service with Armenian airline Armavia. The jets will be completed at Comlux America, the fast-growing charter operator’s outfitting and maintenance division in Indianapolis, with auxiliary fuel tanks installed by Sukhoi.

Comlux president Richard Gaona said the company opted for the Sukhoi Business Jet because - other than considerably more expensive Airbus Corporate Jets or Boeing Business Jets – its five-abreast cabin offered the largest interior in the market.

“It gives customers a large-cabin option from London to New York or Moscow to Dubai at a lower price point than an Airbus or Boeing,” he said.
Comlux will heavily market the fly-by-wire jet in Moscow and Kazakhstan, two of its biggest business areas, and if it proves popular, “we may push the orders up to 10”, said Gaona.

Comlux is the biggest charter operator of large-cabin business jets in the world, with a Boeing 767, five A320-family ACJs, four Bombardier Global Express aircraft, three Global 5000s, three Challenger 605s and two Challenger 850s, as well as a Dassault Falcon 900LX. It has an Airbus ACJ319, two Global 6000s, two Global 7000s and three Embraer Legacy 650s on order or in completion.

Il convient d'avoir du respect pour ce professionnel. Le Sukhoi Superjet sera en bonne compagnie !

SuperJet International chief executive Carlo Logli admitted his company was initially “skeptical” about prospects for a corporate variant of the Superjet. “But in the last two months there has been a considerable push. We have had so many requests from the market,” he said. He believes there is a market for 100 Sukhoi Business Jets over 20 years.

Gaona said he had no misgivings about being launch customer for the first-ever business jet made in Russia: “If it’s as good as Sukhoi’s fighters, it will be an excellent solution.”

Toucan a écrit:Bonsoir.

Je regardai le sujet NBAA dans "Événements", en effet, le SSJ100 fait un bizjet assez économique bien que les second hand jets soient prisés.

Aviotech Corporate Jet Services à Hyderabad, Inde, semble avoir exprimé un intérêt ( MoU..;LoI..?) pour une dizaine d'avions. ( aout 2011 )

Avec un ou deux réservoirs supplémentaires sur base de 95LR...

Il croise normalement à M 0,78 : moins rapide que la concurrence mais moins gourmand que les CFM-56 5B9P de l'A 318 Elite

S'il obtient une certification "steep approach", ce sera un très bon compétiteur.

Namibia to spend $90 mln on Airbus planes


Air Namibia will pay $90 million for two new Airbus A319-100 planes to be delivered in 2014, the Namibian daily newspaper New Era said on Wednesday, citing an Airbus executive.

“We have signed the letter of intent with Air Namibia for the purchase of two aircraft,” Hadi Akoum, Airbus’ vice-president for sales in Africa, was quoted as saying.

No one was immediately available for comment at Air Namibia.

Air Namibia, the national carrier in the southern African nation, is phasing out its Boeing fleet in favour of Airbus, as part of a cost-cutting turnaround strategy.

The struggling airline is slated to receive a cash injection of N$1.2 billion from the government under the three year rolling budget of 2012-2014.

Under the turnaround plan, Air Namibia will open new regional routes, including direct flights to Lusaka, Zambia and Accra, Ghana.

A hint of things to come–Lufthansa 787 order?

Lufthansa Technik “is set to become a leading 787 MRO” following a deal with JAL, blares a headline in AviTrader’s current issue of MRO magazine.

The magazine writes:

Lufthansa Technik will become one of the world’s leading 787 MRO providers after concluding a Total Component Support (TCS) contract with
Japan Airlines (JAL) to support its fleet of 787 Dreamliners. The agreement runs for a term of 10 years and will see the MRO provide material
support, including repairs and logistics services, for JAL’s fleet of 35 Dreamliners from the moment its first aircraft is delivered next year. Lufthansa
Technik will supply its customer with materials from Tokyo as well as from its existing material locations in Frankfurt and Hamburg.

JAL has GEnx engines on its 787s, which may give GE the edge in engine selection for Lufthansa.

The German airline has been evaluating the Airbus A350 XWB and the 787 for many months for what would be a huge order, perhaps 150, across the Lufthansa group.

Lufthansa is expected to make a decision next year and we think it likely a split order would be forthcoming. Although there is a strong case for Boeing to win the entire order, we doubt this will happen.

Why would Boeing be the sole winner? Lufthansa simply doesn’t need the extreme range of the A350–up to 8,500nm. The talked-about 787-10 is, for the moment, a 6,900nm range airplane which is more suitable for Lufthansa. If you want this airplane, which is sized as a replacement for the 777-200ER, then you might as well stick with commonality of the 787-9 (with which you get the long range anyway).

At the same time, the A350-900 and A350-1000 have greater range and capacity and since Lufthansa is German and so is half of Airbus, an order is all but certain.

In addition to the 787 MRO deal, Lufthansa Technik contracted to service the 787′s Hamilton Sundstrand components. Write AviTrader:

The contract with JAL was Lufthansa Technik‘s first for services on the 787. It followed the deal up a week later when it negotiated a licensing
agreement with Hamilton Sundstrand to become a partner in Hamilton Sundstrand’s support network for Boeing 787 components. Hamilton
Sundstrand is the biggest single supplier of components for the 787, accounting for over 40%. According to Andrich, the licensing agreement
gives Lufthansa Technik access to repairs, the development of repair
solutions, test rigs and more, and will ensure that the company has a
‘firm foothold’ in the 787 for a long time.

Japan Airlines has contracted Lufthansa Technik to provide component support for its Boeing 787 fleet.

The airline has inked a 10-year total support deal with the German MRO provider for the on-board equipment of the 35 aircraft on order.

JAL is to become the first airline to operate the twinjet with General Electric's GEnx-1B64 engine.

The first delivery is planned before the end of the year, JAL said.

The deal is also the first 787 MRO agreement for LHT. The maintenance company will provide spares, repair and logistics services from its hubs in Hamburg and Frankfurt.

Certain material will be located at the airline's base in Tokyo. The two companies have co-operated in the past, when LHT supported JAL's now-retired Airbus A300-600 fleet.......

• CFM International: CFM56-2C, -3, -5A, -5B, -5C, -7B
  
• General Electric: CF34, CF6-50, CF6-80C2, -E1, CJ610/CF700
  
• IAE: V2500-A5, -D5
  
• Rolls-Royce: RB211-535, Trent 500, Trent 700, Trent 900
  
• Pratt & Whitney: PW100, PW150, JT9D, JT15D, PW4000-94.
  

• Les Forumistes qui avalent tous les bobards qu'on peut lire dans cette feuille de chou, LeehamNews, ne se rendent même pas compte que LeehamNews a monté son bateau sur le dossier MRO, confié par JAL à Lufthansa Technik, sur l'aspect GE / GEnx, sans comprendre que ce dossier exclut LES MOTEURS.
  
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• Dans nois écrits jusqu'ici, nous n'avons rien dit ! Nous avons attendu qu'il y ait une réaction !
  
• Résultat ? Rien !
  
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• Vraiment, .... le silence de l'ignardise ! Pire que ça, dans toute cette agitation, il y a certains qui essaient d'y remettre une couche ! Il croient que c'est avec l'accord de Boeing que JAL est allé s'adresser à Lufthansa Technik !
  
• Ils essaient de nous raconter de nouveau que RR devrait accorder à AFI tpout l'entretien de tous les moteurs RR Trent XWB en exploitation, chez tous les opérateurs concernés !
  

• "Total Component Support (TCS) contract" ne concerne que l'airframe, et pas du tout les moteurs, ... pas du tout ?
  

Total Component Support TCS

An airline operator is usually faced with a choice: either greater aircraft availability and therefore an inherent need to tie up a lot of capital in a big spare-parts inventory, or low costs.
Well, Lufthansa Technik Total Component Support TCS meets both requirements at the same time.
And that's not all. If so desired, Lufthansa Technik experts will take care of all aspects of supplying the fleet with components from writing the specifications, initial provisioning studies, home base allocation to repair and overhaul, troubleshooting, documentation and engineering services. And all at the highest quality level with the cumulative professionalism gained from 40 years of hands-on experience.

When an airline customer becomes a member of the Lufthansa Technik components pool, the operating costs go down to a level normally available only to operators of much larger fleets. In fact, membership equals being part of a fleet totaling nearly 400 Boeing and Airbus jetliners of all types. Ultra-sophisticated logistics ensure that everything needed reaches their destination in the shortest possible time wherever in the world the aircraft happens to be.
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Capabilities (ceci veut dire : "Lufthansa Technik's Capabilities").

• A300, A310
  
• A318, A319, A320, A321
  
• A330, A340
  
• 737 CL, NG
  
• 747
  
• 757
  
• 767
  
• 777
  
• 787
  
• MD-11
  
• CRJ 100, 200, 700, 900
  
• E-Jet
  
• Q400

Comac Wins 20 C919 Orders From Sichuan Air, Second Deal in Week

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] won an order for 20 C919 aircraft from Sichuan Airlines, its second contract for the plane this week.

The deal increases the backlog for the single-aisle plane to 165, Shanghai-based Comac said in an e-mailed statement today. The planemaker announced an order for 45 C919s from Industrial & Commercial Bank of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] Ltd.’s leasing arm on Oct. 19.

The agreements end an almost yearlong order drought for state-backed Comac, which is trying to compete with [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and Airbus SAS’s bestselling models. China will need as many as 5,000 new aircraft through 2030, of which 71 percent will be narrow-body planes, Boeing said last month.

Existing customers for C919 include [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]’s leasing arm and China’s three major airlines, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], China Southern Airlines Co. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], Europe’s biggest discount airline, said in June that it’s exploring a requirement for at least 200 single- aisle jets with Comac.

The planemaker expects the C919 to make its first flight in 2014 and to enter commercial service two years later.

The company is working with overseas suppliers on the aircraft. CFM International Inc., a GE-Safran SA venture, is set to supply the engines, while [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], United Technologies Corp. and Parker Hannifin Corp. have agreed to provide other components.

In my last [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] from Caracas to Frankfurt i spend almost two hours talking to a LH FA, I have met him several times before and while I can't say we are friends we have since many times now spend some time talking about several topics. i asked him about LH fleet and he said that they were getting ready to order a new fleet of new generation [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

This is what he mentioned to me:

85 Aircraft in total:
20 Airbus A351
35 Airbus A359
30 Boeing 789

Rumours rumours... Many many rumours and none of them are credible at that time.

The big order for LH and new airplanes is due September 2012. So we have to be patient.

Everything is still possible. LH is evaluating 350 or 787. And 320NEO or 737MAX or EMB... So all is possible.

Air Pacific buys 3 new Airbus A330-200

Fiji’s international carrier Air Pacific has ordered three new Airbus A330-200 aircrafts, all valued at a catalogue price of USD$600 million.

Announcing the new addition to its fleet, Air Pacific’s chief executive Dave Pflieger said it is the first time in the history of the companies 60 years of operation to purchase three brand new aircrafts.

Pflieger said the three new A330-200 Airbus is due to arrive in March, 2013 to replace the current Boeing 747 and 767.

He said the purchase of the new aircrafts from Airbus was successful through funding of approximately $200 million from Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) and 85 per cent offshore investments.

Pflieger said the Airbus A330-200 aircrafts burn 45 per cent less fuel than jumbo jets.

He said the aircrafts are equipped with latest cabin seats and excellent in-flight entertainment systems.

“The new aircrafts will dramatically improve the appeal and effectiveness of Fiji’s national carrier in achieving its goal of becoming the airline of choice in the South Pacific,” Pflieger said.

He said the A330’s will also have 20 per cent more cargo space than the current Boeing 767.

Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said the new purchase by Air Pacific demonstrates to the rest of the world that Fiji and Fijians can think outside the box.

“We are saying to the rest of the world that we are ready and willing to provide services that other countries can offer,” he said.

Welcoming Air Pacific to the Airbus family, the senior vice president of Airbus Isabelle Floret said the A330’s are the best aircrafts for the people of Fiji to fly in.

Transaero plans to acquire Airbus А380 and Boeing 747–800 aircraft

Transaero plans to acquire А380s 5 years later. It has been stated by CEO of the airline, Olga Pleshakova, in her interview to Kommersant. [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]

«At present we have 71 aircraft in our fleet and most of them are wide-body jets. Of course we are considering Airbus А380 and Boeing 747–800 aircraft in the network of our development, since at present they are the most advanced and the largest ones», - said Pleshakova.

«We are already negotiating actively and I think that both of these jets will join our fleet in the next several years», - she underlined. Today the airline operates Boeing 737s, 747s, 767s, 777s and Тu-214s.

We remind you that installation and testing of new double-deck passenger boarding bridge for A380 is being carried out in Moscow Domodedovo airport, from where most of the airline’s flights are departed. The work should be completed in spring 2012. In addition, the airport already has permission for servicing A380s.

According to some sources, Emirates will be the first airline to perform flights from Domodedovo using A380 aircraft.

Azul orders 11 E-195s

Brazilian carrier Azul has forged a contract with Embraer to expand its E-195 fleet through an order for 11 aircraft.

The latest transaction increases Azul's total orders for the E-Jet family to 52.

Azul currently operates 23 E-195s and 10 E-190s.

With the latest order, Azul becomes the largest E-Jet operator in South America, said Embraer.

"This order underlines our belief that the E-190 and E-195 are the right aircraft for Azul's growing network within Brazil. This additional capacity will support profitable growth, as well as our core mission of providing safe, comfortable and affordable air transportation in the country," said Azul CEO David Neeleman."