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Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings confirmed that its Atlas Air unit has accepted delivery of the company’s second and third Boeing 747-8 Freighters. The aircraft are part of Atlas Air’s order of nine 747-8Fs with Boeing. Together with an initial 747-8F delivered in early November, the three aircraft will be operated for British Airways World Cargo

JetBlue Airways has selected Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engines for its recently ordered fleet of Airbus A320neo aircraft. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) includes 86 PurePower engines with a long-term PureSolution maintenance service agreement. Deliveries for the carrier’s firm aircraft order are scheduled to start in 2018.

Boeing received certification for the new 747-8 Intercontinental from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Certification clears the way for delivery of the new airplane early next year. The FAA presented Boeing an Amended Type Certificate (ATC) and the amended Production Certificate for Boeing’s newest passenger airplane. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is expected to

In order to continue the modernization of the company’s aircraft fleet, FedEx Express has signed an agreement with Boeing to purchase 27 new 767-300F aircraft, with three arriving in fiscal 2014 and six per year in fiscal 2015-2018. The 767s were selected as the best choice to begin replacing FedEx Express’s MD10 aircraft, some of which are

FLY Leasing Limited has acquired two Boeing 737-800 aircraft, one on lease to Air China and one on lease to Korean Air. The purchase price for both aircraft totaled approximately $62m, which was financed from FLY’s unrestricted cash and new bank debt. FLY also announced that it has sold two aircraft from its portfolio for a

Southwest Airlines finalized a firm order for 150 fuel-efficient 737 MAX airplanes. Southwest is the first customer to finalize an order for the 737 MAX and becomes the launch customer for the new LEAP-1B engine-variant.  In addition, the airline expanded its current order book with an order for 58 additional CFM56-7BE-powered Next-Generation 737-800s. The firm order