Regional Round-Up
Mainland LCC orders A320s
December 1st 2013
Mainland China carrier, Spring Airlines, has ordered 30 more A320s, valued at US$2.75 billion, with the low-cost carrier expected to receive the single aisle aircraft from 2015. Read More » Shanghai-based Spring Airlines told Bloomberg it had intended to build a fleet of 100 airliners by 2015, but that target had been pushed out to the end of the decade because of government delays in approving jet purchases.
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“Within the last 12 months we have seen many signs that obstacles we currently face will disappear,” Spring’s deputy general manager for strategy, Jonathan Hunt, told Bloomberg.