Rumeurs de commandes

CIT to order up to 30
Embraer 190/195s

Lessor CIT Aerospace is to acquire up to 30 Embraer 190s and 195s under an agreement which already includes 10 firm aircraft.
The Brazilian airframer said that deliveries of the twinjets would take place through to 2015.
It
marks CIT's first agreement to take the type directly. Embraer said
CIT's decision to join the E-Jet customer portfolio confirmed that the
family had "achieved a high level of attractiveness for the top-tier
investor community".
CIT transportation finance president Jeffrey
Knittel said the acquisition would enable the lessor to offer an "even
more diverse set of products" to customers.
"This order allows CIT
Aerospace to continue to maintain one of the youngest and most
technologically advanced fleets in the industry and will help us meet
our customers' increased demand for this size of aircraft," he added.
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Hong Kong Airlines will receive more than 50 new aircraft over the next four years to expand its operations on international and Chinese domestic routes.

The airline, a division of China's HNA Group, expects to receive the aircraft - 30 widebodies and 21 narrowbodies - between 2012 and 2015, to be used on its long-haul and short-haul operations respectively.

The widebodies on order are 20 A330-200s, six Boeing 787s and up to four A380s, said the airline.


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"The group is now positioning to take advantage of the soaring demand for air travel in both the Asia-Pacific region, the fastest growing market for the airline industry, and China, one of the single strongest air travel regions in the world. Among the destinations it is considering for future expansion is Australia," it added.

In March this year, HNA Group signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing for 38 aircraft for Hong Kong Airlines.

Its director Adam Tan had said that the group plans to build Hong Kong Airlines into a much bigger player in the market to compete with the territories' flag carrier Cathay Pacific.

In the latest announcement, the carrier said it expects six A330s and eight A320s to enter its fleet next year.

Three of the A330s will be configured to seat 116 passengers in an all-club class layout to launch nonstop daily services between Hong Kong and London from March 2012, it added.

In 2013, it will receive 18 more aircraft - eight A330s, eight A320s and two A380s. In 2014, six A330s, three A320s and two 787s are scheduled to join its fleet.

The remaining four 787s, two A380s and two A320s will be added in 2015.

Together with its sister carrier Hong Kong Express, Hong Kong Airlines now operates a fleet of eight A330-200s and 10 737s.