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Taiwan’s China Airlines eyes A350, B777X to replace B777s

China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan) will choose between Boeing’s much-delayed B777X (B777-9) and Airbus’s A350-1000 to replace the ten B777-300ERs it currently operates, its president Kao Shing-Hwang told Bloomberg Television on August 29.

“We are looking for a new fleet” to replace the existing B777 widebodies, he said without specifying a possible timeline for the upgrade.

Taiwan’s majority state-owned flag carrier had already finalised a deal with Boeing last year to acquire sixteen B787-9s with options for a further eight. In May this year, it firmed the eight options to take its total order for the type to 24, with the option to convert some of them - Kao said it would likely convert six - into higher-capacity B787-10s.

China Airlines will have a better sense of how many B777Xs or A350s will be needed once it decides on the number of B787-10s, Kao said. The ten B777-300ERs have an average age of 8.3 years, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows, and are...

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Taiwan's Mandarin Airlines orders six ATR72-600s

Mandarin Airlines (AE, Taichung Ching Chuan Kang) ordered six ATR72-600s from ATR - Avions de Transport Régional during the ongoing 2023 Paris Air Show.

"Expanding our ATR fleet will enable us to add capacity on existing routes and create new services to continue stimulating the local economy and tourism across Taiwan with the lowest emission regional aircraft", Chairman Kao Shing-Hwang said.

The deliveries of the six new turboprops will begin this year and continue through 2025. Mandarin Airlines, the regional subsidiary of China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan), currently operates nine ATR72-600s, deploying them exclusively on domestic routes that mainly connect the island of Taiwan with smaller islands. Kao recently told ch-aviation the carrier was planning to boost its order book for the type.

In late March, the airline bought three ATR72-600s from ATR.

Having concluded E190 operations at the end of 2021, Mandarin Airlines is currently an all-ATR carrier, although it also wet-leases A320-200 and B737-800 aircraft from its sister airlines Tigerair Taiwan...