Lufthansa Systems said Croatia Airlines selected its Lido eFlightBag solution featuring cockpit processing intelligence and paperless technology.

Pinnacle Airlines Corp., parent of Pinnacle Airlines and Colgan Air, plans to exercise up to 15 Q400 options before year end and shop the aircraft to its mainline partners, President and CEO Phil Trenary told ATWOnline yesterday.

CIT Aerospace delivered the third of four A321-100s to Qatar Airways. The fourth will arrive before year end.

Orix Aviation of Dublin announced the following transactions: Purchase of two 737-700s from BOC Aviation on lease to WestJet and one A319 from RBS Aerospace on lease to South African Airways; sale of two A320-200s to Global Knafaim Leasing; lease of three 737-400s to Comair (South Africa) until 2013; lease extension of two US Airways 767-200ERs until 2010.

Air France subsidiary Brit Air converted six CRJ1000 NextGen options into firm orders, Bombardier announced. Aircraft are worth $299 million at list prices. Original order for eight firm plus eight options was placed in February 2007 (ATWOnline, Feb. 21, 2007). Brit currently operates 15 CRJ100s and 15 CRJ700s. The CRJ1000 NextGen completed its inaugural flight last month at Montreal Mirabel (ATWOnline, Sept. 4).

Boeing booked 11 more commercial aircraft orders last week, taking its year-to-date net to 623, but said that third-quarter deliveries fell 23% year-over-year. Last week's most notable commitment was ANA's order for nine 767-300ERs, which was announced last month but incorrectly identified with an identical order logged for nine -300ERs the prior previous week (ATWOnline, Sept. 29).

Avianca took delivery of the first of 10 A330-200s last week. Aircraft are part of a May 2007 order that included 47 A320 family aircraft (ATWOnline, May 31, 2007). The A330 will seat 280 and be powered by Trent 772Bs. Avianca will take delivery of one more -200, plus one A319 and one A320, before year end.

LuxairGroup will acquire a fifth Q400 for Luxair Luxembourg Airlines and a 737-800 for its tour operator LuxairTours to replace an ERJ and 737-500 respectively. The 72-seat turboprop should join the Luxair fleet in 2010.