Americans buying into Brazilian airlines
Last week United announced its deal to take a stake in Azul. This follows an earlier move by Delta to take a stake in GOL. What do these deals mean? Let’s start with the following table. Views: 57
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Azul firms 30 E195-E2s
Embraer and Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras reached a final agreement for 30 firm orders for E195-E2s. The contract, announced as an LOI at the 2014 Farnborough Airshow includes an additional 20 purchase rights for the same model, bringing the total…
Brazil’s Airlines
Brazil is a large country in real estate terms – 8.5M km2, or 14 times bigger than Alaska, making it only slightly smaller than the entire USA. We know how crucial air transportation is to the United States, and this…
Two non-competitve orders
To start off the week we have two announcements; Ryanair/Boeing and Azul Both were non-competitive orders. What make of them? Views: 37
Azul’s pending A320neo order
In the business of buying airplanes, an airline will always seek the lowest cost. Just as they do with every other production input – lowest cost wins every time. So how is it that with the pending Azul order, “Boeing…
Azul Jumps Up to Wide Bodies
Today Brazil’s Azul announced an new service with six Airbus A330-200 (leased from ILFC ) and is planning to lease five Airbus A350-900 XWBs. This is a radical step for the airline. Up to now it has focused on Embraer…