Airbus Updates No.4682

 

Werner Aero acquires Airbus A321-100 for part-out

Werner Aero Services has acquired a former Air France A321-100 for part-out and asset recovery. The aircraft was purchased from FTAI Aviation and will provide airframe and engine components in the aftermarket.

F-GMZE (msn 544), equipped with CFM International CFM56 engines, will now be disassembled by Tarmac Aerosave at Lourdes/Tarbes, where it has been stored since December 2025, according to ADS-B data.

Airbus Updates No.2230

Avianca Holdings to dispose of 14 A320 Family jets to FTAI

Avianca Airbus A320-200 © Avianca

26.07.2019 - 14:57 UTC

Avianca Holdings will further reduce its overall fleet through the end of this year following the decision to sell 14 aircraft.

In a stock market filing, the Panama-based holding firm said it had reached an agreement to sell ten A318-100s and four A320ceo to New York-based Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC (FTAI Aviation), for an estimated aggregate price of approximately USD160 million. The sale is expected to close by year-end.

“We are excited to execute a flexible phase-out plan that maximizes our fleet value. It has been terrific working with FTAI – we look forward to exploring new opportunities across our fleet with FTAI and continuing to build our relationship with them," Anko van der Werff, Avianca’s Chief Executive Officer, said.

According to ch-aviation fleets advanced, Avianca Holdings' ten A318s operate for its Avianca Airlines (AV, Bogotá) subsidiary alongside the four A320ceo.

As part of its Avianca 2021 turnaround strategy, Avianca Holdings, in March, succeeded in cutting seventeen A320neo from its 128-strong order with Airbus. In addition, it also deferred deliveries of another 35 aircraft of the type to between 2019-2022 thus saving the firm financial commitments of more than USD2.6 billion.

It also retired its fleet of ten E190s in late June.

Airbus Updates No.1971

India's GoAir drops planned A320 ACMI deal with Bamboo

GoAir Airbus A320-200 © Airbus Industrie

23.10.2018 - 00:02 UTC

GoAir (G8, Mumbai Int'l) has terminated negotiations with Vietnam's start-up Bamboo Airways (Qui Nhon) regarding wet-leasing of nine A320-200s after the two airlines could reportedly not agree on a price, the Financial Express has written.

The Vietnamese full-service start-up has already delayed its October launch. The carrier is due to commence operations initially with two A320s wet-leased from Small Planet Airlines (S5, Vilnius). It is also planning to dry-lease three aircraft from FTAI Aviation, namely one ex-SilkAir A319-100 and two ex-Turkish Airlines A320-200s. None of the five aircraft has been delivered to Vietnam so far.

As of March 2019, the start-up will also dry-lease three A320-200s from CDB Leasing.

For its part, GoAir is currently trying to either wet-lease or return to lessors its A320-200s as it transitions to an all-A320neo airline. According to the ch-aviation fleets module, the Indian LCC currently operates nineteen A320-200s and twenty-two A320neo. Of the latter, four units are presently grounded due to the lack of spare parts for Pratt & Whitney engines and one more due to unspecified "airframe related issues", the Economic Times has reported.