Maldivian (Q2, Malé) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the five-year dry-lease of a single A330-200, its first widebody aircraft. The A330 should be configured in a two-class layout, seating at least 235 passengers with at least 20 business class seats. The state-owned airline prefers aircraft equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity, certified for 180-minute [...]
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Mandarin Airlines (AE, Taichung Ching Chuan Kang) has taken delivery of the first of six ATR72-600s that were ordered in mid-2023 at the Paris Air Show. ATR handed over the aircraft to the operator at Toulouse Blagnac late last week, and at the time of publication, is ferrying to Taiwan via Cairo International, Abu Dhabi [...]
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Irish lessor AerCap has received an insurance pay-out of approximately USD572 million, fully settling claims with a Russian insurer against Ural Airlines (U6, Ekaterinburg) and S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk) concerning airframes and engines leased to the two carriers as of February 2022. AerCap confirmed the payment in a December 22, 2023, filing with the US [...]
The Russian insurer NSK has settled a claim by GA Telesis for the loss of two Airbus narrowbodies and their engines, which were on lease to Rossiya (FV, St. Petersburg) when Russia invaded Ukraine. They remained stranded in Russia and have been subsequently re-registered. Rossiya is a sister carrier to the majority state-owned Aeroflot (SU, [...]
Air Lease Corporation has settled a USD64.9 million insurance claim for three A320-200s and one A321-200 leased to S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk) when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The lessor disclosed receipt of the funds in a December 22, 2023, Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The insurer was Russia's NSK. "The insurance settlements and [...]
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