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CANADA JETLINES leased ex-MYAirline A320-200 (5661) with CFM56s from Aviation Capital Group. It now has six.

CEBU PACIFIC agreed to lease two new ATR 72-600s from Nordic Aviation Capital; deliveries were not disclosed.

AIRBUS booked orders in December from unidentified customers for 149 A320neo Family aircraft and 10 A220s. It secured 2,319 orders (142 A220s; 1,835 A320neo Family; 42 A330s; and 300 A350s) in 2023 vs 1,078 in 2022.

RYANAIR is expecting that it will be 5-10 aircraft (737-8200s) short for peak Summer 2024 season due to delivery delays

PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES added another A320-200 to its fleet (source/msn TBA); Pakistan's Privatisation Commission (PC) also approved transaction structure to sell minimum 51% stake in the airline on its 68th anniversary.

ALAFCO received shareholder approval to sell 23 aircraft to MACQUARIE AIRFINANCE for US$1.15b (SPNWS; Dec 9).

AMERIGN ASSET MANAGEMENT has acquired 5-narrowbody aircraft portfolio from Valkyrie, increasing fleet to nine.

JFK handled 4.9m pax in November, up 3.8% vs November 2022.

NEWARK handled 3.9m pax in November, up 4.6% vs November 2022.

FARCARO, Faroe Islands purchased 757-200PCF (32379; ex-American) from AerSale.

GRIFFIN GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT issued additional $300m in senior unsecured notes, increasing bond to $700m.

ASCEND AIRWAYS, UK leased ex-KlasJet 737-800 (38175) from Air Lease Corporation.

AVIANCA plans March 31 to begin four-times-weekly Bogota-Montreal (A320).

Turkka Kuusisto to Chief Executive Officer of Finnair.

Candace McGraw, CEO of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), to Chair of ACI World.

ATLAS AIR took delivery of fourth (67995) of four 777-200LRFs for operation for MSC MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING.

Nate Graddy to Vice President-Business Development, based in Tokyo, of Stratos.