Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings Inc. Finalizes Orders for Fairchild Dornier 328JETs.Business Editors and Aviation Writers HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001 Atlantic Coast Airlines Atlantic Coast Airlines (IATA: DH, ICAO: BLR, and Callsign: Blue Ridge) was an airline based in the United States owned by Atlantic Coast Holdings, Inc.. It operated as United Express for United Airlines and Delta Connection for Delta Air Lines. Holdings Inc. (ACAI) this week finalized its order for Fairchild Dornier 328JETs. The Dulles-based company also increased its options for its United Express and Delta Connection carriers, bringing the total for ACAI orders and options of the 32-seat regional jet to 145, with a value of $1.75 billion. Under the agreement, ACAI placed a firm order for 32 328JETs for Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture ), its United Express operation, to join the 30 328JETs already ordered by Atlantic Coast Jet (ACJet), a Delta Connection carrier. ACAI also increased its 328JET options to 83 from 30 that can be assigned to either carrier. ACJet began operating the 328JET in August. Fairchild Dornier has delivered 14 328JETs to ACJet this year and will deliver the 16 remaining aircraft on firm order in 2001. ACA will take delivery of its first 328JET in January 2002 with deliveries completed in 2003. These aircraft will be the first 328JETs in a United Airlines livery LIVERY, Engl. law. 1. The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite, or knight's service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to obtain the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. F. N. B. 155. 3. . To date, 47 328JETs, the world's only 32-seat regional jet, have been delivered to operators in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, China, Africa and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . The agreement with ACAI brings Fairchild Dornier's 328JET order/option book to 234 aircraft. Fairchild Dornier is a leading manufacturer of jet aircraft for the airline, corporate and government markets and provides a wide range of sales, support, production and engineering services for the aviation industry. Fairchild Dornier is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Allianz Capital Partners as majority owners. In addition to facilities in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. , and Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Fairchild Dornier has offices near Washington, D.C., and in other locations worldwide. |
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