Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean.Jan 22, 2007 Embraer Embraer said yesterday that it delivered 25 commercial aircraft in the fourth quarter, bringing its total to 98 for full-year 2006 led by 40 E-190s. The Brazilian manufacturer took 67 firm orders for its commercial segment during the quarter, increasing its firm order backlog 11.3% over the previous quarter to $14.8 billion. It also raised its delivery guidance to 165-170 in 2007 including executive and defense/government aircraft. Its total deliveries for 2006 were 130. It did not break down projected 2007 deliveries by segment. Jan 17, 2007 Interjet, Airbus Mexican LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. Interjet converted 10 A320 options into firm orders, which Airbus has tacked onto its 2006 order book. The options were part of an order placed at the 2005 Paris Air Show The Paris Air Show (Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Paris-Le Bourget) is an international trade fair for the aerospace business. It is held at Le Bourget airport near Paris, France every odd year, alternating both with the Farnborough International . The Toluca-based airline celebrated its one-year anniversary in December and carried more than 1 million passengers in its first 12 months of operation. Jan 11, 2007 Mexicana, Airbus, Boeing, Embraer Mexicana de Aviacion, Mexico's number 2 airline, plans to invest up to USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. 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. $2 billion over three years to increase its fleet, a spokesman said on Thursday. The plan to add more planes is conditioned on the results of a campaign by Mexicana, with 28 percent market share in Mexico, to cut one-quarter of its costs, airline spokesman Adolfo Crespo said. On Thursday, Mexicana signed a deal with ground workers that should save USD$20 million a year. In November, the airline said it reached an agreement with pilots that would save USD$50 million annually. Jan 19, 2007 VEM VEM Versatile Exercise Mine (US Navy) VEM Volume Electronic Mail (Canada Post Corporation) VEM Virtual Electron Microscope VEM Value Engineering Manager VEM Value Estimation Model Maintenance, Airbus VEM Maintenance and Engineering aims to become a major player in the repair and maintenance of Airbus aircraft in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , according to Filipe Morais de Almeida, who joined the company as CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. last October from Bombardier Portugal, where he served as chairman and CEO. VEM, the former Varig Engineering & Maintenance, was acquired by TAP Portugal in early 2006 It has bases in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r , Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo. Jan 17, 2007 01/22/2007 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Jan 8, 2007 |
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