Aerovision International has acquired 10 Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft that have been in storage for two years, raising the possibility that some of them could be retired even though the oldest of the 50-seat regional jets.
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LAN Airlines has much to be excited about. It merged with TAM on June 22, becoming part of the largest South American airline entity in terms of passengers, destinations and fleet size. The airlines already are cross-selling cargo and passenger flights, as well as code-sharing on some international routes from Santiago, as they work to combine into a single customer network.
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With their Boeing 787-8 fleets gradually building up, Japan’s two major airlines are now looking to increase the number of long-haul routes where the new aircraft will be used. All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) were the first two carriers to receive the 787, and they still account for almost all the 787-8s delivered.
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Airbus and the two Chinese partners in its Tianjin final assembly line have signed a framework agreement to continue the cooperation beyond 2016, the end of the current business plan. The agreement is not a final and binding contract; further negotiations will be held to clarify contractual details. Airbus, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone (TFTZ) and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Avic) have assembled A320-family aircraft in Tianjin since 2009. The existing contract expires in 2016, when 284 aircraft will have been built.
Lufthansa Systems , Keisterbach, Germany, extended the appointment of CEO Stefan Hansen by five years. It also elected Simone Menne, CFO of Deutsche Lufthansa, as chair of the Supervisory Board.
US Airways and American Airlines parent company AMR Corp. are now in formal negotiations on a possible merger. The U.S. carriers on Friday jointly announced that they have entered a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) “under which both companies have agreed to exchange certain confidential information and, in close collaboration with AMR’s Unsecured Creditors Committee, to work in good faith to evaluate a potential combination.” Deal Brokered
Startup Korongo Airlines, based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is looking to add routes in the Central African country after four months of operations. Korongo flies six weekly roundtrips between Lubumbashi and Kinshasa and four from Lubumbashi to Johannesburg. Once a week, the aircraft stays in Johannesburg overnight for maintenance. Most of the services are operated with a Boeing 737-300, while a BAe-146 is used in the Kinshasa-Lubumbashi market.
Grupo Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines have reached a tentative agreement to build a new, jointly operated aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) center in Queretaro—instead of expanding the existing one at Guadalajara as previously planned—and expect it be fully operational by 2014. Under the memorandum of understanding signed by the carriers, they will move work currently being performed at Guadalajara International Airport to the new facility at Intercontinental Airport in Queretaro, next to that state’s Aerospace Park.
Jet Aviation, Zurich, appointed Kim Chan VP and head of Jet Aviation Asia and Stefan Benz VP-maintenance, repair and overhaul and fixed-base operations of its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) plans for its 130-seat commercial narrowbody jet to enter the market in 2016-20, said its head, Mikhail Pogosyan, last week at the International Air Transport Forum in Ulyanovsk. The aircraft is intended as a link between the future stretched variant of Sukhoi’s Superjet 100 with 110-115 seats, and the smallest, 150-passenger version of the MS-21.
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Airbus and the Chinese government appear close to announcing an extension of the narrowbody final assembly line at the Tianjin facility beyond the 2016 end of the original manufacturing agreement. According to industry sources, an official confirmation of the deal and its details is imminent and is expected as soon as today, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are scheduled to visit the Tianjin plant.
Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) medium-haul, low-cost carrier Scoot is launching services to two cities in northeastern China, a sign that SIA group has placed a priority on further expansion into mainland China. Scoot CEO, Campbell Wilson, says the Boeing 777-200 operator on Nov. 27 will launch a three-times-weekly service linking Singapore, Shenyang and Qingdao. This will be the only service on the routing. Besides Qingdao and Shenyang, Scoot already serves Beijing’s port city of Tianjin with a nonstop flight from Singapore.
