Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean.Apr 2, 2007 ABX Air ABX Air (NASDAQ: ABXA) is a cargo airline based in Wilmington, Ohio, USA. It operates scheduled, ad hoc charter and ACMI freight services, including overnight express small-package services and freight in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. , American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Boeing ABX Air will buy a former American Airlines 767-200 and convert it to a freighter, the Ohio-based cargo carrier announced. Cost for purchase and conversion will be approximately $20 million and the aircraft will be available for ACMI charter service by early next year. "We intend to seize opportunities to add to our Boeing 767 fleet when they become available under attractive terms," ABX ABX Antibiotics ABX Airborne Express ABX Abstracting ABX Albury, New South Wales, Australia - Albury (Airport Code) ABX Automatic Branch Exchange ABx Non-Antibiotics ABX Asset Backed Securities Index ABX Acoustic Bass Extension President and 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. Joe Hete said. ABX has 35 767s in service, including 29 for DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature . It plans to fly 42 of the type by early next year. Mar 26, 2007 ABX Air, Boeing, 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 VEM completed its sixth Boeing 767 freighter conversion, its first for ABX Air, in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r . ABX's second of five aircraft
already is undergoing conversion. VEM is working in conjunction with
Israel Aerospace Industries Israel Aerospace Industries (Hebrew: התעשייה האווירית לישראל) or IAI . Mar 27, 2007
Avianca Airlines, Boeing Avianca orders 10 Boeing 787s, is first South American Dreamliner customer Avianca Airlines placed a firm order for 10 Boeing 787s valued at $1.5 billion, becoming the first airline 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. to order the aircraft. Mar 30, 2007 Avianca Airlines, Boeing Avianca Airlines To Buy 10 Boeing 787s. Boeing said on Wednesday that Colombian air carrier Avianca Airlines has ordered 10 of its 787 Dreamliners. Mar 29, 2007 Embraer Embraer reported $390.1 million in 2006 net income, a 13% drop from the previous year, which the company attributed to rising costs and fewer deliveries. It reported net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight of $3.8 billion compared to sales of $3.83 billion in 2005, while the firm order backlog increased 11% to $14.3 billion. Fourth-quarter net income was down 20.3% to $124.4 million on an 8.9% fall in net revenue to $1.08 billion. Mar 26, 2007 Lineas Aereas Azteca Lineas Aereas Azteca was grounded this week "due to a series of findings by the (Mexico) Bureau of Civil Aviation, which has determined that this airline has not guaranteed operations within basic security standards, mainly due to problems with maintenance and training," according to airports operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which issued a statement to assure passengers that other carriers can fill the traffic void. The grounded airline, which operates six 737-300s and two -700s, served seven of GAP's 12 airports. GAP said that in addition to safety problems, Azteca's "financial situation [is] compromised." The airline has been given 90 days to solve its problems to the government's satisfaction. Mar 28, 2007 Lineas Aereas Azteca Lineas Aereas Azteca had its operations suspended yesterday for safety and financial violations, Mexican Transport Minister Luis Tellez said, according to Reuters. The carrier, which launched in June 2001, operates a fleet of six 737-300s and two -700s on an extensive domestic network, according to the Ascend CASE database. Tellez said the government gave Azteca 90 days to resolve its issues, which were not detailed. Mar 27, 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 AirGuideFlightTracker is a new, free service that aims to keep travelers informed flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Mar 26, 2007 |
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