Aircraft News - Africa / Middle East.Dec 11, 2006 Boeing, Arkia Israeli Airlines Boeing sold a combined three 787s, plus two options, yesterday to Arkia Israeli Airlines parent Nakash Group of America and business aviation firm PrviatAir of Switzerland. Nakash's order for two dash 9s and two options is worth $336 million at list prices and scheduled for delivery in 2012. It did not announce an engine choice for the aircraft, which will be used on routes to North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and the Far East. Arkia operates one 757-200, two 757-300s, four ATR ATR Achilles tendon reflex, see Ankle reflex 72-500s and five Dash 7s. PrivatAir's order had been listed on Boeing's website under an unidentified BBJ BBJ Boeing Business Jet BBJ Bad Beat Jackpot (poker) BBJ Black Business Journal BBJ Big Ball Jam (Phish song) BBJ Big Band Jump (radio station) customer. It also did not announce an engine choice. Dec 6, 2006 Kenya Airways, Embraer Kenya Airways said it will lease three E-170s from GE Commercial Aviation Services GECAS (GE Commercial Aviation Services, formerly GE Capital Aviation Services, though the acronym is the more common usage) is a unit of GE Commercial Finance, itself part of the large conglomerate General Electric. The president of GECAS is Henry Hubschman. to help expand its domestic and regional routes. The first two will be delivered in May and June 2007 and the third in June 2008, replacing Saab 340B turboprops. By the end of this month, Kenya Airways also will have taken delivery of three 737-800s it is leasing from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise. Dec 8, 2006 Pratt & Whitney, Turkish Airlines Technic Pratt & Whitney and Turkish Airlines Technic signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. yesterday to build a "major" aircraft engine overhaul facility at Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen, site of Technic's HABOM MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. initiative. Financial terms were not disclosed. The joint venture will work on CFM56s and V2500s and expects to handle up to 200 engines annually. Dec 5, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Nov 13, 2006 |
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