Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Talking Points

Hawaiian's first new A321 NEO route will be Honolulu - Long Beach (CA) starting June 1st

Virgin America will formally merge into Alaska Airlines from January 12th

JetBlue delayed it's strategic fleet review following the tie-up between Airbus and Bombardier, and possible Boeing - Embraer partnership - events that the airline believes may affect it's order decisions on new small aircraft

Etihad Airways ferried an A340-600 to Teruel (Spain) for storage. A record check shows the airline has now quietly retired (as of October last year) all of it's A340-500 and -600s. The airline operated four -500s and seven -600s, all of which are now stored, bar one. One -500 (MSN 748) did find a new home with the Italian Air Force, operating governmental VIP flights

China plans to order 184 Airbus A320 family aircraft for distribution to the countries airlines

Airbus is to increase A320 Tianjin, China production to six per month from 2020. The current rate is four per month

Africa World Airlines (Ghana) plans to acquire three 767s for service from Accra to London, New York, Sao Paulo and Istanbul

Express Air Cargo (Tunisia) is to acquire four 737-400Fs first half of 2018, adding to two 737-300Fs currently operated



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