Gulf Air sceglie il 787 e ordina altri A320


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Fonte: Bloomberg

Gulf Air Signs $6 Billion Agreement for 24 Boeing 787
By Tarek Al-Issawi and Arif Sharif

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Gulf Air, Bahrain's loss-making national carrier, and Boeing Co. signed a $6 billion agreement for the delivery of 24 Dreamliner aircraft to begin in 2016, airline spokesman Adnan Malik said.

The Dreamliner is Boeing's most successful new airplane program in terms of sales with more than 800 orders valued at more than $120 billion. It ranked second in commercial orders last year behind the 737 narrow-body model.

Gulf Air has 30 planes to service 26 destinations. The company was talking to Boeing, the world's second-largest commercial-plane manufacturer, and Airbus SAS, Chairman Mahmood al Kooheji said at the Dubai Air Show in November.

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The agreement was signed on the eve of a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush to the Persian Gulf island, home of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.

Gulf Air may hold an initial public offering in 2008 and has reduced losses by 30 percent in recent weeks and is now losing $600,000 a day compared with $1 million earlier, Chairman al Kooheji said in November.

In July, the carrier said its Chief Executive Officer Andre Dose will resign after less than four months in the job without saying why. Dose, a former chief executive of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd., took the job about nine months after his predecessor James Hogan left to run Etihad Airways. He had trimmed the airline's fleet and cut long-haul routes in a bid to stem loses.

Aviation Lease & Finance Co., a Kuwait-based airplane leasing company, signed a preliminary agreement in September to provide three Airbus SAS A320-200s to Gulf Air. Gulf Air will start taking delivery in 2009 and lease the airlines for eight years, Alafco said in a regulatory filing

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_t3ByB92Sqg&refer=home



Qui l'ordine per 8 A320, Yahoo News

Airbus wins tentative Gulf Air order for 8 A320s
Reuters - Monday, January 14

MANAMA, Jan 13 - Airbus won an initial order from Bahrain's Gulf Air for eight of its A320 single-aisle aircraft, Gulf Air said on Sunday.

The two sides may reach final agreement on the planned purchase by the end of March, Gulf Air Chairman Mahmood al-Kooheji told reporters in the Bahraini capital, Manama.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080113/tbs-airbus-gulfair-order-7318940.html
 
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Complienti, deve starci proprio bene oro bianco e blu:)
 
Chissa se in futuro con questi aerei potrebbero attivare anche qualche rotta verso l'Italia...
 
@ Cesare Caldi: se le otto opzioni verranno esercitate ci potrebbe essere qualche espansione del network, i 16 ordini fermi invece sostituiscono gli attuali 332 e 343.

Altro articolo da Flight International

Gulf Air ordering 787s for 2016 but considering earlier lease
By David Kaminski-Morrow

Bahraini flag-carrier Gulf Air is to begin taking delivery of its newly-ordered Boeing 787s from 2016 but is looking at arranging leases to introduce the type earlier.

The airline has confirmed that it is ordering 16 firm 787s – currently the 787-8, although the agreement allows for conversion to larger variants – and placing purchase rights on eight more.

Gulf Air says it will make an engine decision at a later date. A spokesman for the airline says that the carrier opted for the twin-jet because it has “unmatched performance and capabilities”.

The carrier is valuing the order at up to $6 billion, at catalogue prices, if all the purchase rights are exercised.

“Twenty-four aircraft is a huge order,” says the spokesman. “This will be the backbone of our fleet, and take over the long-haul operation.”

But while the aircraft will be delivered from 2016, he says the carrier wants to begin its fleet-replacement sooner, adding: “We are working with Boeing to have the 787 leased earlier.”

He says an interim lease arrangement could result in the airline introducing the type from 2010.

Gulf Air is also intending to prepare its crews for the aircraft, he adds, by acquiring a 787 simulator for its new Bahrain-based training centre.

During the Dubai Air Show last November the airline said it would overhaul its fleet with up to 35 aircraft. The spokesman says the carrier is seeking 45, including short-haul types, and that it could yet increase the long-haul component.

“It depends on what’s available. We’re still talking to both [Airbus and Boeing],” he says, and adds that the airline has not ruled out the use of regional types.

Gulf Air has a long-haul fleet based on the Airbus A330 and A340, as well as a few Boeing 767s which are being phased out. It also has Airbus A320s for short- and medium-haul routes, but recently started using leased Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Source: flightglobal.com's sister premium news site Air Transport Intelligence news

http://www.flightglobal.com/article...s-for-2016-but-considering-earlier-lease.html
 
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