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Garuda Indonesia signs up for 14 A330-900neos
April 22nd 2016
On Tuesday, Garuda Indonesia announced an order for 14 Rolls-Royce Trent 7000-powered A330-900neos, to support the carrier’s future medium and long-haul growth. Read More » The order – signed at a ceremony in London in the presence of Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, and British prime minister, David Cameron – replaces and extends an existing order for seven A330-300 aircraft, with the A330neo commencing delivery from 2019.
Airbus’ chief operating officer, Tom Williams, said Garuda’s A330neos will feature the manufacturer’s new Airspace cabin (see here).At this stage, Garuda has yet to clarify its intentions for other fleet acquisitions outlined in the Letters of Intent for 30 A350s and 20 B787-9s that it signed last June.
In other manufacturer updates, Boeing has selected Textron’s TRU Simulation + Training to provide a suite of training devices for the B777X. The ten-year agreement covers multiple devices, with the initial contract involving development and production of a B777X FFS and flat-panel classroom trainer. TRU will also supply an engineering simulator to Boeing for use in development of the B777X.
Textron CEO, Ian Walsh, said winning the B777X deal was “difficult” because of competition from market leader CAE and others. He expected the “OEM stamp of approval” for its own training centres to pay off in more sales to airlines.
At Bombardier in Montreal, a breakthrough in the CSeries programme seems imminent after The Wall Street Journal reported Delta Air Lines was finalizing a 125-aircraft order for the CSeries. The twinjets would replace Delta’s ageing fleet of 116 MD-88s, which Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, recently said “had to retire”.
Bombardier said the first CS100 delivery to launch customer Swiss was on track “before July”, while airBaltic is expected to receive the first CS300 in the second half of the year.-half.
