Orders thread 2011

[ehusmann]

Boeing announces an order from GECAS for 2 B747-8F and 8 B777-300ER. So these are the first 2 of the 17 B748 orders (and F indeed). This is an LOI.
Info on the Boeing site.

Erwin

[Gietje]

Boeing has orders and commitments for a total of 17 B747-8. The customers are not disclosed yet, but one has signed up for 15, another for 2. Although customers are not yet known, the orders are officially announced by Boeing.
More info on the Boeing Paris 2011 site.

Erwin

According to Flightglobal Hong Kong Airlines is the customer behind the 15 747-8i's!
Source

[mwpeters]

This is an LOI

Leidse Onderwijs Instellingen???? What is LOI, not everybody is familair with all the abbreviations used on this forum.

[Chris Delvaux]

Letter of intent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_intent

Groet,
CHris

[flying_kiwi]

PARIS: Kuwaiti leasing company ALAFCO has signed an order with Airbus for 6 A350-900s, which means they now have 18 of the type on order.

Source

[flying_kiwi]

PARIS: One that almost slipped under the radar. Singapore based leasing company Aviation PLC has ordered another 4 ATR72-500s from ATR. These will be operated by Skywest Airlines on behalf of Virgin Australia.

Source

[ehusmann]

This is an LOI

Leidse Onderwijs Instellingen???? What is LOI, not everybody is familair with all the abbreviations used on this forum.

You are quite right, I will make it more clear next times. And thanks Chris for the explanation.

Erwin

[nuckleuz]

PARIS: UTair has a deal with Boeing for 7 B737-900ERs and 33 B737-800s.

[flying_kiwi]

PARIS: Press conference currently being held by Airbus with Avianca-TACA announcing they have signed an MoU for 51 A320 family aircraft, including 33 A320neo aircraft.

[flying_kiwi]

PARIS: In an important deal for Sukhoi, Italian carrier Blue Panoroma Airlines (BV/BPA) has signed a 'provisional deal' (probably a MoU) for 12 SSJ100s.
This would be the first order from a western European airline, which will give the programme even more credability.

Source

[nuckleuz]

PARIS: Republic (Frontier Airlines) has signed a deal with Airbus for 40 A319NEOs and 40 A320NEOs.

[nuckleuz]

PARIS: Indigo just ordered 180 A320s, including 150 A320NEOs.

[ehusmann]

PARIS: Indigo just ordered 180 A320s, including 150 A320NEOs.

The first A320neo customer revealed itself.

According to this article on Flightglobal: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... -deal.html the Indian airline IndiGo signed a Memorandum of Understanding for 150 A320neo and 30 regular A320's

Firming their Memorandum of Understanding that was signed in January.

Erwin

[ehusmann]

Ah yeah, why not, lets post another A320NEO order. This time LAN placed a firm order for 20 A320NEO.
More info on the Airbus Paris 2011 site.

Erwin

[Starbucks]

Keep your eyes and ears open, Leahy said some more pressreleases were to be announced.

LAN is the first:
http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/press ... t-a320neo/