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AIRBALTIC sold new A220-300 (55071) to Chorus Aviation for leaseback, and now has 22 A220s with four more due in 2020.
Air Transport

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS placed its first of four A350-900s into operation.
Air Transport

BAMBOO took delivery of its first 787-9 and plans to have four by January 2020.
Air Transport

SWISS took delivery of its 12th and final 777-300ER (66092).
Air Transport

AZMAN AIR, Nigeria acquired 737-500 (29075) from airBaltic, and now has five 737CLs.
Air Transport

Peter Bromby to Vice President of Worldwide Pre-owned Sales of Bombardier, Montreal.
Business Aviation

HOLAND AUTOMOTIVE GROUP took delivery of second new 8-pax Learjet 75 from Bombardier for pax charters out of Montreal.
Business Aviation

HELVETIC AIRWAYS took delivery of its second (026) of 12 E190-E2s on order.
Air Transport

AIRBALTIC sold second new A220-300 (55071) to Chorus Aviation, and leased it back; three more are planned.
Air Transport

GULFSTREAM delivered its 600th G550; the first entered service in 2003.
Business Aviation

Rob Kidner to Vice President-Corporate Development of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.
Air Transport

Zahra Kawa to Vice President-Finance of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.
Air Transport

Ron Karger to Vice President-Maintenance of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.
Air Transport

Darcy Coonfer to Vice President-Flight Operations of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.
Air Transport

EMBRAER delivered the first Praetor 500 to FLEXJET under $1.4b deal for Praetor 500/600 and Phenom 300 (SPNWS; Oct 25).
Business Aviation

AZIMUTH AIRLINES began twice-weekly Karsnodar-Munich (SSJ100).
Air Transport

SWIFT ENGINEERING was selected by Sikorsky (Lockheed Martin) to design and build the fuselage for its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA)
Defense

ACI

ACI reports year-over-year pax growth of 2.3% in October; cargo dropped 2.9%.

ASL AIRLINES FRANCE was placed on the IOSA register by IATA.
Air Transport