Aircraft & Propulsion

Interjet has added 10 options to its firm order for 20 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft, and Superjet International increasingly believes the Mexican carrier holds the key to the future success of the regional aircraft.

Air France Industries (AFI) has invested €43 million ($54.7 million) in a new 5,000 sq. m. engine test cell based at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG).

Boeing has achieved firm concept of its 737 MAX, and said it had defined “significant’ changes needed to achieve performance targets.

Colombia’s Avianca Airlines (AV) has ordered three additional Boeing 787s valued at $620 million at list prices.

LOT Polish Airlines has taken delivery of the first of eight Boeing 787 Dreamliners at Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW).

Singapore Airlines regional affiliate SilkAir (MI) has finalized an order for 54 737s and 737 MAX 8s worth $4.9 billion at list prices.

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) are considering a joint effort to construct a short- to medium-haul widebody aircraft.

Thai Airways (TG) is in talks to acquire up to 12 leased and purchased Airbus A350-900 XWBs for delivery between April 2016 and November 2017.

Azerbaijan Airlines (J2) has placed a firm order for four Embraer E-190s, valued at $181 million, and has purchased two used Embraer E-170s from ECC Leasing.

Tianjin-based Okay Airways (BK) has inked an agreement with the Aviation Corp. of China’s (AVIC) subsidiary Xi’an Aircraft International Corp. for three MA60s.

ST Aerospace has broken ground on a new $11 million, 3,600 sq. m. narrowbody aircraft hangar at its Singapore Changi facility.

Qatar Airways (QR) has taken delivery of its first of 30 Boeing 787s. The aircraft, the first to be delivered to an airline in the Middle East, will be used on its Dubai, London Heathrow, Delhi and Zurich routes.

Mexico’s Interjet (4O) has signed a purchase agreement for 40 Airbus A320neo aircraft.

The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has won 50 orders for the 150-seat C919 at the Zhuhai Air Show.

Boeing has rolled out the first 787 Dreamliner built at the new production rate of five-airplanes-per-month.

Gulf Air (GF) has renegotiated its 2008 orders covering 20 Airbus A330s and 24 Boeing 787s, agreeing instead to take up to 24 A320s and a maximum of 16 787s.

Libya-based Afriqiyah Airways (8U) has placed a follow-on order for four Airbus A350 XWBs and converted its earlier order for six A350-800s to the larger A350-900.

Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY) will take the delivery of its first Boeing 787 in April 2013.

Several Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft delivered to Aeroflot (SU) in 2011 and 2012 could be turned into business jets and sold to other customers, according to Russia’s Prime news agency, which quoted Sukhoi Civil Aviation Co.’s (SCAC) SVP Igor Syrtsov.

Condor (DE) took delivery of its 12 Boeing 767-300ER. The aircraft, configured with 268 seats, will be used to expand its long haul business for example to South Africa and the Far East. DE has added three 767-300ERs to its fleet within 14 months. Alaska Airlines has introduced its first Boeing 737-900ER, to be used on its Seattle, Wash.-San Diego, Calif. service. It is scheduled to take delivery of 38 of the aircraft through 2017.

Bombardier has postponed entry into service (EIS) of the CSeries, its foray into the narrowbody aircraft sector, from late 2013 to around the end of June 2014.

Taiwanese airline TransAsia Airways (GE) has placed a follow-on order for six Airbus A321neos, which will be powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines.

Fastjet, the African low-cost carrier backed by easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has unveiled its new brand and will begin selling tickets next week.

Russia’s UTair Aviation (UT) and VEB-Leasing have signed a financing deal for the delivery of 20 Airbus A321s the carrier ordered at the Farnborough Airshow.

Grupo Aeromexico (AM) has finalized a purchase agreement for up to 90 Boeing 737 MAX narrowbody aircraft.