Company Watch - Airbus

Aug 27, 2007

ACT Airlines, based at Istanbul Ataturk, signed an MOU for two Airbus A330-200 freighters, Airbus announced. ACT currently operates seven A300B4 freighters and will use the new aircraft for flights to Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. Aug 20, 2007

Aeroflot To Buy Boeing 787s, Airbus A350s. Russia's national airline, Aeroflot, will pay USD$5.81 billion for a total of 44 aircraft from Boeing and Airbus, a discount of about 17 percent, Vedomosti business daily reported on Monday. Aeroflot has agreed to pay USD$2.906 billion for 22 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft and USD$2.904 billion for 22 of Airbus's A350 XWB planes, the paper said, citing a report by Interfax news agency. Aeroflot announced the deals earlier this year but has never said how much it was going to pay for the aircraft in one of the biggest-ever foreign plane orders by a Russian company. Analysts told the paper the discount was so large because Aeroflot had managed to play off both companies against each other. Under the deals, Aeroflot will get its first Airbus in 2014 and the last in 2019, and its first Boeing in 2014 and the last in 2016, the paper said. Aug 20, 2007

AirAsia In Talks For More A320s. Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia is in talks to buy more Airbus A320 planes due to increasing demand, AirAsia Deputy Chief Executive Kamarudin Meranum said. AirAsia, one of the fastest growing airlines in the world, has 150 firm orders for the single-aisle A320s and options on another 50. AirAsia, Asia's largest budget carrier, introduced its low-fare, no-frills concept in December 2001, and has since embarked on an aggressive expansion. Aug 21, 2007

Airbus and Singapore Airlines have agreed a delivery timetable for the first A380 aircraft, which will officially be handed over on Monday 15 October in Toulouse. Public seats on the maiden scheduled flight, set for Thursday October 25 between Singapore and Sydney, will be auctioned off for charity. With 471 seats, the aircraft is configured in three classes: economy, business and the new Singapore Airlines Suites. Aug 20, 2007

A China Airlines aircraft made an emergency landing at an airport in western Japan after it ran out of fuel following the temporary closure of its destination airport, officials said. The jet, an Airbus A330 with 163 people on board, was on its way from Taipei to Chubu international airport in central Japan when that airport's runway was closed for about 30 minutes due to a minor incident involving another plane. Aug 22, 2007

Singapore Technologies Aerospace said it became the first company in Southeast Asia to receive a Design Organization Approval from Airbus parent EASA, enabling STA to approve and perform engineering design work on EU-registered aircraft. Aug 23, 2007

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