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AIRBUS booked orders in October from undisclosed customers for eight A220-300s, three A321neos and 10 A350-900s. It has now secured orders for 1,399 aircraft in 2023: 47 A220s; 1,182 A320neo Family; 36 A330s; 134 A350s.

WESTJET plans in 2Q24 to begin Edmonton-San Francisco/-Nashville/-Atlanta and Vacouver-Detroit (737).

MY FREIGHTER, Uzbekistan leased 767-300ERBCF (29386; ex-Air Canada) from Cargo Aircraft Management.

EASTAR JET, Korea leased ex-SpiceJet 737-800 (41345) from Air Lease Corporation.

JET2, UK leased ex-Flyr 737-800 (40866) from Banc of America Leasing.

WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORPORATION had $13.8m net income on $106m revenues in 3Q23 vs $5.5m on $77m in 3Q22. It ended quarter with 351 engines (vs 337 in 3Q22), 12 aircraft (vs 12), and other leased parts/equipment worth $2.2b.

BREEZE AIRWAYS took delivery of new A220-300 (55231) on lease from AerCap.

GARUDA INDONESIA leased ex-China Airlines 737-800 (61424) from Air Lease Corporation.

AWESOME CARGO, Mexico leased ex-Alitalia A330-200 (1225) with CF6s from Air Lease Corporation.

AIR LEASE CORPORATION had $122m net income on $659m revenues in 3Q23 vs $100m on $561m in 3Q22. It ended the quarter with owned/managed/committed fleet of 878 aircraft (448 owned) vs 904 a year ago; it has placed 100% of its contracted orderbook positions for aircraft delivering through end of 2025 and 67% of total orderbook (351 aircraft).

JAZEERA AIRWAYS, Kuwait posted KD13.27m profit for the first nine months of 2023 on 12.8% higher y-o-y revenues.

RYANAIR had €2.2b net profit on €8.6b revenues for six months ended Sept 30 vs €1.4b on €6.6b a year ago. It says it is currently suffering 737 delivery delays and that 10 of its 57 deliveries pre summer 2024 may be delayed to winter 2024.

LEASEWORKS, Singapore was selected by BBAM to provide its recently launched Utilization Tracker module with Aeris MATCH software ecosystem.