Alitalia fleet
Pity the traveler with a ticket on Alitalia. Pity, even more, the firm that is doing business with the airline. CNBC has a good summary of the airline’s financial woes. What happens if the airline is shut down? At present…
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Spirit takes first A320neo delivery in the United States
Spirit Airlines accepted the first A320neo delivery in the United States with an aircraft on lease from AerCap. This is the first of five scheduled deliveries, with four additional options for Spirit. Ted Christie, Spirit’s Chief Financial Officer stated “…
That bubble keeps building
The huge backlogs Airbus and Boeing have for single aisle aircraft are well known. Both firms have backlogs of about seven years at current production levels. Both firms are talking about and planning to increase their production rates to bring…
BOC Aviation – Bucking Lessor Trends in Engine Selection?
On March 13th, Bank of China Aviation made an announcement that it had selected IAE V2500 engines for an order for 12 A320s. We decided to look into this engine selection and evaluated this growing lessors A320 family engine selection…