GUATEMALA'S TAG OUTLINES ATR72 DEPLOYMENT PLANS st
TAG Airlines has taken delivery of its 1 Avions de Transport Régional turboprop. st It is the 1 of 4 ex-Jet Airways ATR72-500s the Guatemalan carrier is leasing from Willis Lease Finance, the others being msn 919, 920, and 932. Collectively, they are part of a UK£14 million investment deal to build the airline's domestic and regional growth. TAG currently operates six S340As, two S340B(Plus)s, and one EMB-145LR on regular flights throughout Guatemala as well as to Belize, Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador. It also has a strategic partnership with CM Airlines in Honduras where the two carriers will cooperate to develop connectivity throughout Mundo Maya (El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico).
BOOM SUPERSONIC REDESIGNED Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner after Concorde, have reviled the refined design of ‘Overture’ at the recent annual Farnborough Airshow. It has also signed a new partner agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop special mission variants of the aircraft. Able to carry 65–80 passengers at twice the speed of the average aircraft, it uses 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Overture can fly at Mach 1.7 over water with a range of 4,250 nautical miles. The aircraft is an economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic airliner. “Aviation has not seen a giant leap in decades. Overture is revolutionary in its design, and it will fundamenta lly change how we think about distance,” said Boom Founder and CEO Blake Scholl. “With more than 600 routes across the globe, Overture will mak e the world dramatically more accessible for tens of millions of passengers.”
AZERBAIJAN AIRLINES PURCHASES FOUR 787-8S Boeing and Azerbaijan Airlines have signed a MoU for 4 additional 787-8’s. The deal was struck during the Farnborough International Airshow. Azerbaijan Airlines currently operates two 787-8s. The airline intends to grow its Dreamliner fleet to 10 by 2030, so it can open new routes across Central Asia. “Azerbaijan Airlines was the first airline in the Caspian and Central Asia region to operate the 787-8 Dreamliner and we currently have two 787-8s in-service. This MoU is the evidence of joint efforts to scale up the mutually beneficial partnership between Azerbaijan Airlines and Boeing,” said Jahangir Asgarov, president of Azerbaijan Airlines. “Over the years, our 787 airplanes have provided impeccable performance, and the addition of more long-haul airplanes will further expand the geography of Azerbaijan Airlines’ route network.”
