Intentions de Commandes & Commandes fermes

Jeannot a écrit:American aurait commandé 5 777-300ETs au premier trimestre

American Airlines ordered five Boeing 777s in Q1

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American Airlines exercised rights to buy five Boeing 777s in the first quarter, the company reported Wednesday.
“During the first quarter of 2011, the Company amended Purchase Agreement No. 1980 with Boeing and exercised rights to acquire four Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, including two scheduled for delivery in 2012 and two scheduled for delivery in 2013,” the company said in its [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. “In April 2011, the Company exercised rights to acquire a fifth Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, which is scheduled for delivery in 2013.”
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Certaines commandes étaient connues, d'autres non. Diificile de savoir. Attendons le tableau hebdomadaire de Boeing.

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Aerolíneas Argentinas incorpora diez Boeing 737-700 Next Generation

Dentro del marco del Plan de Negocios 2010-2014 y ante la necesidad de ampliación y modernización de nuestra flota de fuselaje angosto se concretó hoy el acuerdo relativo a la incorporación de diez aeronaves Boeing 737-700 NG de ILFC (International Lease Finance Corporation). Las aeronaves tienen un ingreso programado entre abril de este año y octubre de 2012. El primer delivery se estima para fines de este mes y el leasing es por un término de 5 años (60 meses).
El acuerdo fue refrendado por el Presidente de Aerolíneas Argentinas, Dr. Mariano Recalde, y el CEO de ILFC, Henri Courpron.
Estas 10 aeronaves poseen igual configuración a las que actualmente componen nuestra flota B 737 NG, en lo que se refiere a potencia, pesos máximos y distribución de asientos de pasajeros. Otorgarán a la Empresa la posibilidad de contar para el año 2012 con flota comercialmente homogénea de 22 aeronaves de nueva generación.
Con la incorporación plena de estos aviones se reduce la edad promedio de la flota de 15,6 años, en 2009, a 10,8 años en 2012, es decir una modernización del 31 % en términos de edad promedio.

Algunas consideraciones:
• El Lessor, previo al delivery, aceptó incrementar la potencia de los motores y los pesos de despegue de las aeronaves a lo pretendido por Aerolíneas Argentinas, con el fin de tener las mismas características a los 10 Boeing 737-700 alquilados que actualmente están operando las rutas domésticas y regionales.

• Las aeronaves arribarán con pintura exterior de acuerdo a la nueva imagen empresaria.
• También se modifica el interior de cabina a una configuración de 8 asientos en bussines y 120 en turista.


EL B-737-700

El 737-700 tiene una autonomía de 6.000 kilómetros (una 3.200 millas náuticas), lo que le permite realizar vuelos de más de siete horas. Su altura máxima de crucero es de 41.000 pies y su velocidad máxima alcanza 0.82 Mach, mientras que la velocidad económica de crucero es de 0.79 Mach (853 KPH).-

Las aeronaves están equipadas con dos turbinas CFM56-7, fabricadas por un joint venture de General Electric, de EEUU, y SNECMA de Francia que se caracterizan por su bajo consumo de combustible y menor costo de mantenimiento.

Estos modelos incorporan un nuevo diseño de sus alas, de tecnología avanzada, que incrementa la superficie de las mismas permitiendo un aumento en la capacidad de los tanques de combustible.

Los Boeing 737 constituyen la familia de jets comerciales de mayor venta en la historia, con un pedido de más de 5.300 unidades, supera el número de aviones en todos sus modelos de cualquier otro fabricante de aviones.

Sobre el CEO de ILFC
Henri Courpron ingreso al International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) como CEO en Mayo 2010.

Vitoll a écrit:Pluna, Uruguay, lève 3options sur des Bombardier CRJ 900

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On aura noté " en remplacement de B 737-200 "

Mais avec Latin American Regional Aviation Holding Corporation, ce n'est pas vraiment LA surpsrise

LOS ANGELES -- April 26, 2011

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), today announced that it has finalized an order for the purchase of 100 A320neo family aircraft from Airbus.

“Our work is ongoing as we continue on the path of providing the industry’s most technologically advanced aircraft to our customers.

This order builds onto our fleet portfolio which already represents a significant widebody aircraft inventory and further positions ILFC as the most responsive and resourceful aircraft lessor today,” ILFC Chief Executive Henri Courpron commented.
“Importantly, I would like to recognize all the employees of ILFC for the extraordinary work they have contributed over the past year which allows us to be in the positive position we are in today.”

The final agreement with Airbus provides for model flexibility but initially includes both A320neo and A321neo for a total of 100 aircraft.

Deliveries will start in 2015.

As noted previously, Pratt & Whitney has been selected to power a minimum of 60 units with their PurePower PW1100G offering.

VV_roll a écrit:Le dépôt de la commande ILFC pour 100 machines de la famille NEO aurait été effectué.

Une des reprises d'annonce :

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LOS ANGELES -- April 26, 2011

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), today announced that it has finalized an order for the purchase of 100 A320neo family aircraft from Airbus.

“Our work is ongoing as we continue on the path of providing the industry’s most technologically advanced aircraft to our customers.

This order builds onto our fleet portfolio which already represents a significant widebody aircraft inventory and further positions ILFC as the most responsive and resourceful aircraft lessor today,” ILFC Chief Executive Henri Courpron commented.
“Importantly, I would like to recognize all the employees of ILFC for the extraordinary work they have contributed over the past year which allows us to be in the positive position we are in today.”

The final agreement with Airbus provides for model flexibility but initially includes both A320neo and A321neo for a total of 100 aircraft.

Deliveries will start in 2015.

As noted previously, Pratt & Whitney has been selected to power a minimum of 60 units with their PurePower PW1100G offering.

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), today announced that it has finalized an order for the purchase of 100 A320neo family aircraft from Airbus.

“Our work is ongoing as we continue on the path of providing the industry’s most technologically advanced aircraft to our customers. This order builds onto our fleet portfolio which already represents a significant widebody aircraft inventory and further positions ILFC as the most responsive and resourceful aircraft lessor today,” ILFC Chief Executive Henri Courpron commented. “Importantly, I would like to recognize all the employees of ILFC for the extraordinary work they have contributed over the past year which allows us to be in the positive position we are in today.”

The final agreement with Airbus provides for model flexibility but initially includes both A320neo and A321neo for a total of 100 aircraft. Deliveries will start in 2015. As noted previously, Pratt & Whitney has been selected to power a minimum of 60 units with their PurePower PW1100G offering.

Cathay under new leadership: the dawn of a new era?

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Running an airline is no easy task. It not only applies to the European and US major carriers, but also to industry leaders such as Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines (SIA). For Cathay Pacific and its new chief executive John Slosar, however, the airline faces a very different environment than his predecessor Tony Tyler did, who went on the become the director general (DG) and chief executive of Geneva-based industry body International Air Transport Association (IATA) at the end of first quarter.
A month since taking the helm at Asia’s second-largest carrier by revenues which made a stellar record-breaking HK$1.4 billion (US$1.8 billion) full-year 2010 profit (“[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]“, 14th Mar 11), political revolts in the Middle East have sent oil prices skyrocketing, with Brent crude oil price reaching as high as US$127 a barrel.
Worse yet, the March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami led to a significant drop-off in air travel demand to and from Japan, causing Cathay Pacific to reduce the number of daily flights to and from Japan from seven flights per day to four per day and later to six per day as demand partially recovered.

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Then both the passenger traffic and cargo traffic growth that Cathay Pacific projected seem not to have materialised. Cathay Pacific has initially planned an 8 per cent growth in cargo capacity (Available Cargo and Mail Kilometres) and an 11 per cent growth in passenger capacity (Available Seat Kilometres, ASK) for 2011, but for the first three months of the year, the growth in both passenger and cargo capacities apparently outpaced the growth in passenger and cargo traffic, resulting in a persistent decline in passenger and cargo load factors.
These factors, along with an anticipated increase in labour cost owing to a 4.5 per cent and 12 per cent in flight attendants’ and pilots’ monthly salaries, respectively, contributed to a forecast of HK$9.3 billion (US$1.2 billion) full-year net profit this year, a marked deterioration of 33 per cent in net earnings over last year’s high base record-breaking HK$1.4 billion full year profit, according to a Bloomberg survey of 17 aviation analysts (“[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]“, 18th Jan 11).
For instances, Japanese routes have been a lucrative business for Cathay Pacific, with average load factor last year reaching more than 90 per cent and generating glamourous high yields. With the air travel demand to Japan now not expected to fully recover until the fourth-quarter of this year, Aspire Aviation believes the Japanese market will continue to be a weakness in Cathay Pacific’s network for most of the time this year which may put some downward pressure on the passenger yields.
The issue of overcapacity is another major concern which may put some further downward pressure on both passenger yields and cargo yields, as passenger traffic for the first quarter of 2011, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), rose marginally by 1.8 per cent to 23.87 billion, yet passenger capacity, measured in available seat kilometres (ASKs), rose at a substantially faster pace of 9.6 per cent to 30.385 billion, producing a passenger load factor of 78.6 per cent, down 6 percentage points over the prior year.
On the cargo side, the overcapacity is an even somewhat bigger concern, with 3 remaining 747-400 BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter) destined to be sold to Air China Cargo (ACC) leaving CX’s fleet in 2011 and 2012, yet now that the flight test of the Boeing 747-8F freighter seems to be progressing well and the first example being sent to Texas for modification in preparing the first delivery, there is a reasonable high chance that CX’s first 747-8F delivery in August this year would take place as scheduled.
Cathay has made clear that it will adjust the cargo capacity accordingly in light of the 6 747-8F freighters and the departure of a few of 747-400 BCFs, as well as a projected 2011 cargo peak. However, should these projections fail to materialise, the cargo overcapacity situation could easily worsen, thereby result in lower cargo load factors and pricing pressure.
For the first quarter of 2011, cargo traffic, measured in cargo and mail tonnage kilometres, rose by 7.4 per cent to 2.39 billion, whereas cargo capacity, measured in available cargo and mail tonnage kilometres, surged by 21.6 per cent, leading to a 9.1 percentage point drop in cargo load factors to 69 per cent.
A silver lining may lie in the same element which cause airlines pain, oil. As oil prices remain high, it is indeed true that fuel cost increases significantly. However, Cathay Pacific is more hedged when the Brent crude oil prices soar this year, thereby possibly realising mark-to-market fuel hedging gains and reduce the rate of increase in the total fuel cost. Notwithstanding this, a soaring oil price nevertheless puts a dent in consumer confidence and business sentiment (which has yet to take place but feared to do so), not only will it hurt Cathay’s bottom line, but also limit Cathay Pacific’s ability to raise fares in light of higher fuel costs.

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Looking beyond the present challenges facing Cathay Pacific, a bright future lie ahead of it and analysts are already projecting an improved full-year results in 2012, rebounding to HK$11 billion, according to a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) research.
Critically, Aspire Aviation believes under the leadership of John Slosar, characterised as an enthusiastic leader by insiders, Cathay Pacific will pursue a string of new ideas, particularly over ancillary revenue generation and the launch of a premium economy class.
While critics have pointed out that the premium economy class of Qantas mainly is rumoured to mainly consist of complimentary upgrades from economy class rather than extracting consumer surpluses of those travellers who are willing and able to pay for extra comfort, more amenities and better beverages, there are successful examples of implementation of premium economy class like Air New Zealand (ANZ) and British Airways (BA), etc.
Moreover, Cathay Pacific’s new chief executive John Slosar commented in a March 10 Bloomberg TV interview the carrier is now seriously evaluating the potential launch of a premium economy class now that it has become a standard offering of many carriers.
Furthermore, as Cathay Pacific presses forward with its fleet renewal programme with the Boeing 777-300ER and Airbus A350-900 XWB mid-sized long-range aircraft amid its network expansion, they provide a superb platform for maximising yields while retaining frequency and enabling Cathay to carry substantial amount of underbelly cargo which very large airplanes (VLA) such as A380s and 747-8I Intercontinentals cannot carry.
Meanwhile, Aspire Aviation has learned that Cathay Pacific will sign a contract with Chicago-based airframer Boeing to purchase 14 additional 777-300ERs in May, bringing the total of 777-300ERs on order and operated by Cathay to 60.Last but not least, while Cathay Pacific is facing headwinds as every other airline does, it is important to keep in mind that there lies a bright future, particularly the growth from China, ahead of this carrier and that its prudent financial management would provide a sound basis for its ambitious international expansion in years to come, and that John Slosar’s taking the helm at Cathay is arguably the dawn of a new era, with many revenue-generating opportunities being currently evaluated.

Jeannot a écrit: On apprend que Cathay doit signer pour 14 nouveaux 777-300er. Boeing espérait placer ses 747-8 et pour finir cela semble être du 777. Airbus visait le 380 mais... bon. Sans doute un problème de délai de livraison.

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Airbus: Korean Air passe une commande ferme pour cinq A330

La compagnie Korean Air a passé une commande ferme pour cinq long-courriers Airbus A330-200, un contrat d'environ 1 milliard de dollars au prix catalogue, a annoncé mardi l'avionneur.
Le nombre total des A330 commandés par la compagnie coréenne s'élève désormais à trente exemplaires, dont 23 ont déjà été livrés, précise Airbus dans un communiqué.
Les nouveaux exemplaires seront équipés de moteurs Pratt & Whitney, filiale du groupe américain United Technologies.
Le prix de la commande n'a pas été annoncé mais atteint environ 1 milliard de dollars (674 millions d'euros) au prix catalogue indicatif.
La compagnie avait annoncé plus tôt mardi son intention d'acquérir cinq A330 et deux long-courriers Boeing 777 afin d'améliorer sa flotte, a précisé de son côté l'agence financière Dow Jones Newswires.
Son bénéfice net s'est établi en forte hausse au premier trimestre mais l'envolée des prix du carburant a nettement entamé son bénéfice d'exploitation.

Korean Air has placed a firm order with [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] for five additional [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-200s, and plans to order two [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-300ERs.
The A330s will be powered by [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] engines.
In a regulatory filing, the carrier gave an investment figure of $1.57 billion.
Korean posted a net profit of 282 billion won ($263.1 million) in the first quarter, compared with 189 billion won in the same period last year.

Plans to order more A380s

Qatar Airways, which has five Airbus A380s on order, plans to order additional superjumbos, Al Baker said.
"We are in negotiations to purchase additional A380 aircraft," he said without divulging further details.
The Doha-based carrier is also the largest customer for Airbus A350 XWB (extra wide body) with 80 aircraft on order, with the first one to join the airline's fleet when the new Doha International Airport opens, Al Baker stated. The carrier expects its fleet size to reach 120 aircraft within two years, with links to 120 destinations. It managed to increase its fleet size from 72 aircraft in December 2009 to 97 planes at present.
Analysts say they expect this to happen soon.
"I'm told that the A380 order will almost certainly be announced at next month's Paris Air Show and could comprise at least 20 firm orders for the type with a similar number on option. If I hear more, I will let you know," an industry analyst told Gulf News.

Jeannot a écrit:Qatar airways pourrait commander 20 A380s au Boruget et prendre 20 options.

Plans to order more A380s

Qatar Airways, which has five Airbus A380s on order, plans to order additional superjumbos, Al Baker said.
"We are in negotiations to purchase additional A380 aircraft," he said without divulging further details.

The Doha-based carrier is also the largest customer for Airbus A350 XWB (extra wide body) with 80 aircraft on order, with the first one to join the airline's fleet when the new Doha International Airport opens, Al Baker stated. The carrier expects its fleet size to reach 120 aircraft within two years, with links to 120 destinations. It managed to increase its fleet size from 72 aircraft in December 2009 to 97 planes at present.
Analysts say they expect this to happen soon.

"I'm told that the A380 order will almost certainly be announced at next month's Paris Air Show and could comprise at least 20 firm orders for the type with a similar number on option. If I hear more, I will let you know," an industry analyst told Gulf News.

• surtout des moteurs GEnx pour sa commande ferme de 30 avions B787 + 30 options, car jusqu'ici le document signé avec GE est un MoU et non pas une commande ferme, .....
  
• et, peut-être, pour la même raison (MoU à transformer en cde. ferme) d'un petit paquet de moteurs GE90-115B ou -110B, pour les B777-300ER & -200LR commandés plus récemment.
  

Airbus could wrap up two major orders for its revamped A320neo by the Paris air show in June, sales chief John Leahy said.

The deals include a final version of a 180 plane, USD$16 billion deal that Airbus reached with Indian budget carrier Indigo earlier this year.

as well as another potentially big new deal with Malaysia's AirAsia.

"I think we will have the Indigo order finalised and announced by the Paris Air Show," Leahy told reporters.

"We are in final discussions with Air Asia. We hope that too will be concluded in time for the Paris Air show."
Airbus has called the Indigo order the biggest commercial jet deal in history by number of planes involved.
AirAsia has talked of buying a similar number of planes and its chief executive said this week a deal could be "imminent".

It was not immediately clear whether the AirAsia order would be a firm order or a provisional agreement. Purchases go into the plane maker's order book, contributing to annual targets and boosting the backlog of parent EADS, when finalised.
Leahy was speaking on the sidelines of an event marking the 200th Airbus delivery to UK low cost carrier easyJet.

Braathens Leasing orders 10 CSeries twinjets for Sweden's Malmo

Braathens Leasing has placed a firm order for 10 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] CSeries aircraft and taken options on an additional 10, raising the Canadian airframer's backlog to 100 CSeries firm orders and giving it a much-needed boost since inking its last CSeries order some 15 months ago.
The $665 million deal with Braathens Leasing, a member of Braathens Aviation of Sweden, covers the acquisition of five Bombardier CS100 and five CS300 mainline jetliners. Options for 10 additional CSeries aircraft, if converted to firm orders, would raise the amount to about $1.37 billion.
The twinjets will be operated by Braathens Aviation member Malmo Aviation from the regional airline's base at the Bromma-Stockholm City airport outside of downtown Stockholm.
Malmo Aviation, which operates a fleet of BAE Systems [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] RJs, intends to renew its fleet and explore new business opportunities with its CSeries aircraft starting in 2014, said Bombardier.
"Bromma, being a city airport, has very strict noise regulations, as well as a short runway," noted Braathens Aviation CEO Knut Solberg.
"We have been very focused on noise, emissions, fuel consumption and runway performance in our decision for a new aircraft type. With the CSeries aircraft, we found exactly what we were looking for. The CSeries aircraft promise excellent runway performance, noise levels which are less than half those of any similarly-sized aircraft currently in production, as well as unsurpassed environmental credentials."
The transaction announced today increases firm orders for the CSeries family of aircraft to 100, including 38 CS100 and 62 CS300 aircraft, and raises the number of CSeries aircraft customers to four.
Other customers that have ordered the CSeries include Frontier Airlines parent Republic Airways, which ordered 40 CS300 aircraft some 15 months ago; [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], which holds a firm order for 30 CS100 aircraft that are destined for its [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] subsidiary; and Lease Corporation International Group, which ordered 17 CS300 and three CS100 aircraft.
Additionally, the CSeries aircraft program includes options for 100 aircraft.
The 110-seat CS100 aircraft is scheduled to enter revenue service in 2013, followed by the 130-seat CS300 aircraft in 2014.

European plane maker Airbus has orders worth USD$35 billion from India, a senior company executive said on Friday, with recent record order wins in the fast-growing market accounting for more than half of the total orders.

Indian carriers are rapidly expanding their operations as an economy growing at nearly 9 percent spurs business travel and the middle class, long accustomed to rail travel, increasingly takes to the air.

Airbus has an order backlog of more than 400 planes to be delivered to Indian carriers over the next 15 years, Joost Van Der Heijden, Airbus's head of airline marketing for Africa, India, South East Asia and Japan, told reporters in Mumbai.
He said India is the seventh-largest market for Airbus but expected it to climb in coming years.

"India will move up with traffic growth higher than anywhere in the world," Heijden said.

"The Indian fleet will certainly more than double and could even triple in the coming years," he said on the sidelines of an industry conference.
Indian budget carriers Indigo and GoAir last month placed orders worth nearly USD$23 billion in total with Airbus.
Rival Boeing has existing orders of about USD$15 billion with airlines in India, the senior official in its Indian unit said on Thursday.

Boeing expects India's commercial plane market to reach USD$150 billion over the next 20 years, as a burgeoning middle class is expected to drive demand in Asia's third-largest economy.

(Reuters)

“Iran Oil” airliner to buy 4 airbus planes

July 9 – The “Iran Oil” airliner is going to buy four airbus passenger planes, the MD of the airliner announced Saturday.
Hossein Talebzadeh told Shana news that the board of the managers of the company have approved buying of 4 Airbus 320 which will be effected after the financial resources for the purchase have been set.
The airliner will expand its foreign flights from currently one to six destinations such as Istanbul and Baghdad, he added.
The airliner established in 1992 belongs to the Fund of the Retirees of the Iranian Oil Industry and operates with 9 passenger planes, mainly Fokker 100 and Fokker 50.

München – eine Erfolgsgeschichte für die Lufthansa

Zur Jahreshälfte ziehen die Flughäfen eine Zwischenbilanz und für München findet das gleich zweimal statt: über die Entwicklung des Flughafens insgesamt kann der AeroBrief in seiner nächsten Ausgabe berichten. Vorgezogen berichtete die Lufthansa. Diese baut den Hub München weiter aus und sieht sowohl in ihren direkten Aktivitäten als auch als Mitbetreiber des Terminal 2 deutliches Wachstum und gute Perspektiven für eine positive Entwicklung in München. Das fassen für die deutsche Vorzeige–Fluglinie Thomas Klühr, Mitglied des Bereichsvorstand Passage, und der Sprecher des Gesamtkonzerns, Klaus Walther, zusammen.
„Wir eilen von einem Rekord zum nächsten. So hatten wir im Mai den stärksten Monat mit Passagierzahlen in der Geschichte des Terminal 2, im Juni den Tag mit dem höchsten Passagieraufkommen.“ Thomas Klühr ist bei der Lufthansa für den Standort München verantwortlich und seit April auch Mitglied des Bereichsvorstandes Passage. Seine Begeisterung für München ist groß, wie er bei einem Gespräch mit der Presse unterstreicht, und er sieht die Zukunft mit weiteren Höhepunkten: „Wir erwarten in diesem Jahr 24 – 25 Millionen Passagiere im Terminal 2. Deshalb ist der Ausbau des Satelliten-Terminals eines der wichtigsten Projekte der nächsten Jahre. Nicht nur optisch wird das neue Gebäude an das bisherige Terminal 2 anschließen. Auch von der Betreuung der Passagiere soll das Niveau hoch sein. Für uns bietet beispielsweise die erhöhte Anzahl der Plätze von Flugzeugen direkt am Terminal eine Möglichkeit, den Komfort für die Passagiere zu erhöhen. Vom fahrerlosen Transportsystem zum neuen Gebäude bis zum zentralen Marktplatz rund um den Vorfeld-Tower, das neue Gebäude bietet uns die Möglichkeit, weiter zu wachsen.“

Insgesamt werde die Lufthansa den Standort München weiter ausbauen, erklärte Klühr, so werden systematisch alte Flugzeuge ausgetauscht und neue Jets der Flotte zugeführt. Der Langstrecke gelte ein besonderes Augenmerk. In dem Bereich sollen nicht nur weitere Flugzeuge eingesetzt werden, sondern auch die Kadenz zu vielen Standorten erhöht werden, sodass vor allem Geschäftsreisende gute Verbindungen haben. Neu angeflogen wird im nächsten Jahr Mexiko und auch die Verbindungen in den Mittleren Osten sollen intensiviert werden.

„Es gibt kaum ein Unternehmen, das so stark aufgebaut hat wie die Lufthansa in München,“ ist sich Klühr sicher, wenn er auf die wachsende Mitarbeiterzahl blickt, die sich seit 2004 mehr als verdoppelt hat. Schon heute habe die Lufthansa das stärkste Europanetz nicht in Frankfurt, sondern in München und gerade für touristisch interessante Ziele werden die Verbindungen weiter ausgebaut. Mit seiner neuen Verantwortung im Bereich der Passage bei der Lufthansa seien auch zentrale Kompetenzen nach München verlagert worden, beispielsweise werde die Verkehrszentrale jetzt in München aufgebaut. „Es geht weiter aufwärts, München ist ein toller Standort mit einer großen Perspektive,“ fasst Klühr zusammen und vergisst nicht, nachzuschieben: „Und alle Mitarbeiter in München können stolz sein auf diese Entwicklung.“

Die Aufwertung des Standortes München bei der Lufthansa bestätigte auch der Konzernsprecher Klaus Walther „Die Lufthansa positioniert sich heute als internationaler Netzwerk-Carrier, der sich im oberen Marktsegment bewegt,“ beschreibt Walther die Ausrichtung seines Unternehmens. Für die Verteidigung der Marktstellung, vor allem in den Ausbau des Kundenservices, werden in den nächsten Jahren drei Milliarden € für Maßnahmen der Qualitätsverbesserung ausgegeben. Zu den weiteren Weichenstellungen für die Zukunft gehöre die Bestellung von 155 neuen Flugzeugen im Wert von 15 Milliarden €, darunter auch 20 A320neo. Die neuen Flugzeuge böten nicht nur die Möglichkeit zu mehr Komfort, sondern würden mit der verbesserten Effizienz auch die negativen Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt verringern, unterstreicht Walther. Die Lufthansa wolle aber mehr für die Nachhaltigkeit und den Umweltschutz tun und so werde es in Kürze die erste Strecke geben, auf der Bio-Fuel im Dauereinsatz genutzt werde. Sechs Monate werde auf der Linie Frankfurt Hamburg, so berichtet der Lufthansa-Sprecher weiter, mit alternativem Treibstoff geflogen und er verbindet seinen Blick in die Zukunft mit dem Hinweis, dass gerade die vielen Bemühungen der Lufthansa um den Umweltschutz von den Politikern anerkannt werden müssten. Deshalb dürfe es keine weiteren Belastungen des Luftverkehrs geben. Schon heute führte die Luftverkehrs-Steuer zu einem Verlust im zweistelligen Millionenbereich, jetzt erwarte die Lufthansa, dass entsprechend der Aussage aus der Koalitionsvereinbarung der Bundesregierung der auf europäischer Ebene beginnende Emissionswertehandel wettbewerbsneutral eingeführt werde.

Jeannot a écrit:Je suis assez d'accord avec vous. C'est une rumeur qui court de l'autre coté du Rhin et qui porterait sur une période de 5 ans et pour tout le groupe LH.

De plus compte tenu de l'annonce à venir du groupe AF/KLM et BA/Iberia je me suis dit qu'il fallait le signaler.

Wait and see

• a quel point ils ont compris (mal compris) le débat récent sur le MRO que RR veut se garder, au lieu de l'accorder à AFI, dans le cadre d'acquisitions éventuelles, voire probables, d'A350-XWB par AF / AF-KLM ;
  
• comment ils ont pu écrire leurs âneries, ou ne pas comprendre les réponses et commentaires qu'ils ont lus sur le sujet (car ils nous lisent, entre autres ! ), et le bien-fondé de nos écrits, et de ceux d'autres auteurs, qui connaissent bien le sujet ;
  
• ce qui les empêche de voir l'inévitabilité de bien séparer et d'avoir à bien séparer l'airframer du motoriste (Qui voit Airbus ou Boeing comme motoriste, voyons ? Ou chacun de GE , P&W at RR comme 'vassal', ou sous-traitant de ces airframers ? ), et les métiers des Cies. aériennes (AFI est un genre de sous-traitant de GE, parce que cela convient à AFI & à GE, qui n'a pas les ressources adéquates aujourd'hui pour assurer les travaux que d'autres OEM -- motoristes-- préfèrent conserver systématiquement, y compris au travers de Joint Ventures réussies) ;
  
• ce qui les emêpche de voir le ridicule de leur position, qu'ils défendent avec une hargne indue et futile , comme quoi l'airframer devrait pouvoir imposer (dans le marché libéral ! ) l'obligation à un motoriste de consentir les travaux MRO à la cie. cliente qui veut nourrir ses propres activités MRO, selon son 'diktat' ;
  
• comment ils ne voient pas que les contrats avec les motoristes, (entre les Cies. aériennes et le motoriste) peuvent être taillés sur mesure, avec ou sans leasing, sur des bases de redevances / honoraires à la façon "power by the hour", ou selon d'autres formules adaptées, et adoptées d'un commun accord entre les parties !