First-Half Order Tally Shows Big Rises for Airbus, Boeing
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ISSN 1718-7966 July 8, 2013 / Vol. 396 WEEKLY AVIATION HEADLINES Read by thousands of aviation professionals and technical decision-makers every week www.avitrader.com WORLD NEWS British Alitalia needs €250m boost Airways welcomes Alitalia, Italy’s beleaguered flag the first carrier, needs a further €250m Airbus A380 ($321m) to stay in business, hav- to its fleet. ing already raised €95m from Airbus now has a record shareholders including Air France backlog of KLM, which holds a 25% stake. 5,109 aircraft The airline’s new CEO, Gabri- - ensuring ele Del Torchio, told reporters in more than seven years Rome that he wanted to be ‘very of sustained clear and transparent: we need production. financing’, adding that he would appeal to Alitalia’s bankers for an Airbus extended line of credit. The air- line posted 1Q13 losses of €157m and holds net debt of €1.02bn. First-half order tally shows big rises for Airbus, Boeing Boeing delivers 16 787 Dreamliners in Q2 after first quarter grounding Abu Dhabi’s $50bn promise Reports have emerged revealing Airbus and Boeing have posted Airbus v Boeing: Orders and Deliveries significant increases in commer- that Abu Dhabi promised India Through June 2013 - 1H2013 that it would invest up to $50bn cial aircraft orders and deliveries Airbus Boeing in infrastructure in exchange for at the half-way point of 2013, a four-fold increase in passenger compared to the year before, with Type Orders* Deliveries Type Orders* Deliveries traffic to the sub-continent, from Airbus tripling its overall orders A318 0 1 737-700 0 9 and Boeing recording a respect- 13,330 seats per week to 50,000 A319 1 14 737-800 297 182 per week over the next three years. able 66% rise. The deal, sealed in April, came two A320 291 171 737-900 12 27 The increase was expected, with days before Abu Dhabi’s Etihad se- A321 358 47 737-MAX 367 0 the Paris Air Show, the world’s cured a 24% stake in India’s Jet biggest for commercial aircraft, A330 8 54 747 3 12 Airways for $379m. India recently A340 0 0 767 0 12 brought in legislation allowing for- falling in June, while last year’s eign carriers to buy up to a 49% major show, in Farnborough in A350 100 0 777 29 47 stake in domestic airlines. the UK, took place in July. A380 0 8 787 82 17 The Chicago-based airframer Total 758 295 Total 790 306 Kenya Airways no-frills will be buoyed by an order book *Gross Orders Source: Company websites Kenya Airways plans to launch showing 790 firm bookings for a low-cost carrier this year in a the year, with 114 purchases of airframer also signed a landmark earlier in the year over battery move designed to expand the widebody jets including 82 for its MOU for 20 Airbus A380 ‘super- problems. It delivered a record 16 Nairobi-based airline’s presence in all-new 787 Dreamliner, taking the jumbos’ from Doric Asset Finance, 787s in the second quarter, com- eastern Africa. Group CEO Dr Ti- total up to 930 for the model. with the deal due to be finalised pared to only one in the first three tus Naikuni told Arabian Business within a few months. months of the year. that the new carrier would start Airbus’ widebody order book as a low-cost domestic service be- comes out at 758 orders to date Boeing kept slightly ahead of its ri- Airbus, meanwhile, now has fore expanding regionally. Kenya for 2013, including 100 bookings val in delivering new aircraft, with 5,109 aircraft in its backlog - an Airways, a Sky Team member, for the A350XWB, its carbon com- first-half deliveries up 7% from a all-time record that marks more has a codeshare with Etihad and posite answer to Boeing’s 787, year earlier. The rate of deliveries than seven years of sustained pro- hopes to capitalise on Abu Dhabi’s and which was given a firm vote increased in the second quarter as duction - after booking 241 orders position as a regional hub to drive of confidence in Paris, with 59 or- it was forced to delay 787 deliver- in Paris. Deliveries were well up on traffic to sub-Saharan Africa. ders from three customers. The ies when the plane was grounded last year’s first-half total of 279. 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According to IBA’s Jet Data database there are 97 A340-600 aircraft currently in generation firm ATRs, plus 16 options, or- service of which three are parked in Tarbes. dered by Malaysia Airlines in December 2012. Firefly currently operates 12 ATR 72-500s, and with the arrival of the new ATR 72-600s will almost triple its exclusively ATR 72 aircraft fleet, taking the total to over 30 aircraft. British Airways’ first A380 arrives at Heathrow home British Airways is the first UK carrier to take delivery of the A380, the world’s largest com- Hi-Fly’s newest aircraft, the first A340-600 to transition into the secondary market Hi Fly Aero mercial jet. British Airways is also the first air- line in Europe to operate both the A380 and Hainan Airlines takes delivery of first customer in the coming months. The con- the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the first two of 787 Dreamliner tract, which was signed in July, last year, in- which landed at Heathrow in the last week cludes a total of eight AW139 helicopters. of June. The airline announced that the very Hainan Airlines took delivery of the airline’s first long-haul flight on the A380 to Los -An first 787 Dreamliner, which is the first of 10 Rex purchases seven SAAB 340Bplus geles will be on September 24, 2013. 787s for the airline. Hainan Airlines will first aircraft operate the Dreamliner on a domestic route Nepal Airlines firms up order for two from Beijing to Haikou. Thereafter, the air- Regional Express (Rex) purchased seven latest Airbus A320 aircraft with Sharklets line will deploy the 787 on its North America generation Saab 340Bplus aircraft. The aircraft routes, increasing the frequency of its Beijing- were originally operating in the Rex fleet un- Nepal’s national flag carrier, Nepal Airlines Seattle, Beijing-Toronto and Beijing-Chicago der a lease which expired on 2nd July 2013. Corporation (NAC) signed a firm order for two services, with several new destinations. The acquisition was funded by Rex’s operating Airbus A320 aircraft equipped with Sharklet cash flows. The purchase brings the number fuel saving wing tip devices, following a Mem- Italian Police receive first two AW139 of Saab 340 aircraft owned by Rex to 33. orandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed in Helicopters April. The A320 was chosen for its unique Airstream arranges purchase and performance capability required for high alti- AgustaWestland reported that the Italian Po- lease of one ATR42-500 to Hevilift tude airport operations and its flexibility that lice has taken delivery of its first two AW139 Group of Papua New Guinea enables it to be deployed on a wide variety intermediate twin engine helicopters on of routes. Equipped with Sharklets to deliver schedule. These helicopters will be operated Airstream International Group arranged in unbeatable economics and up to four percent by the 1st Aviation Unit of the Italian Police collaboration with a large US based Lessor, reduction in fuel burn, the aircraft will be the and based at Pratica di Mare, close to Rome. the purchase and onward lease of 1 ATR42- cornerstone of NAC’s modernised fleet. Additional aircraft will be delivered to the 500, to Hevilift Group. MSN501, previously Tunisia’s Syphax Airlines orders the A320neo and the Garuda Indonesia takes delivery of first 777- A320ceo 300ER Syphax Airlines, a new Tunisian based airline, confirmed its Boeing and Garuda Indonesia celebrated the arrival of the order to buy three A320neo. The order is the first time an airline’s first 777-300ER (Extended Range) in Jakarta on July African based carrier has ordered the NEO and marks a sig- 2nd. The long-haul, twin-aisle airplane is the first of 10 777- nificant breakthrough for Airbus in one of the world’s fastest 300ERs delivered to the airline and is a key component of developing markets. Syphax have also ordered three A320ceo the Garuda Indonesia’s Quantum Leap fleet revitalization aircraft. The aircraft will be powered by CFM engines. program. First A320neo for Africa Airbus Red carpet for Garuda’s first 777-300ER Boeing July 8, 2013 / Vol. 396 4 AviTrader WEEKLY AVIATION HEADLINES owned by Danish Air Transport, Denmark, will overhaul services (MRO) provider for vari- be used to supplement Hevilift’s fleet of two MRO & PRODUCTION ous actuation, air management and elec- ATR42-320s and three DHC-6 aircraft.