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India’s IndiGo close to 500 A320neo Family order - report

IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi International) is reportedly edging towards a deal to acquire as many as 500 A320neo Family aircraft from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac), unnamed aviation industry sources told news agency Reuters on the sidelines of the IATA World Air Transport Summit in Istanbul this week.

The European manufacturer is the frontrunner in the potential agreement, but Airbus and Boeing (BOE, Washington National) are still competing in separate talks to sell twenty-five widebodies - A330neo or B787s - to the same airline, the sources said.

According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, IndiGo Airlines’ fleet is dominated by Airbus jets, with hundreds more of them already on order. It currently operates 165 A320-200Ns with 175 more of the type on order, twenty-one A320-200s, eighty-four A321-200NX with 237 more on order, two A321-200(P2F)s, and thirty-nine ATR72-600s. It also has sixty-nine A321-200NY(XLR)s to be delivered. In addition, the carrier is wet-leasing in three B777-300(ER) widebodies from Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul Airport).

Air Tanzania takes delivery of first B767 freighter

Air Tanzania (TC, Dar es Salaam) has taken delivery of its first widebody freighter following the arrival of B767-300F 5H-TCO (msn 67788) in East Africa on Saturday, June 3.

The new-build jet was ferried from Everett, where it was handed over to lessor TGF - Tanzania Government Flight on June 1, to Dar es Salaam via Casablanca Mohamed V.

Briefing members of the media in Dar es Salaam, Works and Transport Minister Makame Mbarawa said the freighter would allow local farmers to export fish, meat, flowers, vegetables, and fruit to markets across Africa, Europe, and Asia without having to rely on foreign operators.

"We expect that when the plane starts operations it will reduce costs to traders in transporting their goods, as presently they incur extra costs when using charter planes and scarce regular flights, plying each destination twice per week," he was quoted by The Citizen newspaper.

Once all regulatory procedures have been completed likely in July, 5H-TCO's initial destinations will include Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya),...