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Turkmenistan Airlines finalises A330 P2F freighter purchase

Turkmenistan Airlines (T5, Ashgabat) has signed a firm order agreement with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for the purchase of two P2F-converted A330-200 freighters. The move follows the issuance of a decree by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow on January 7 allowing the transaction to proceed.

According to the state-owned carrier, chief executive Dovran Saburov signed the order with Paul Meijers, Airbus's Executive Vice President (Leasing Markets, Customer Finance & Asset Management), during a virtual meeting on January 18.

No delivery dates, or any other details, were disclosed.

Aside from three Il-76TDs, Turkmenistan Airlines does not, at present, operate any other main-deck freighters.

Florida’s GLOBALX hosts delivery for first A320, eyes A330s

Charter and cargo start-up Global Crossing Airlines Group, operating as GLOBALX (Miami Int'l), hosted a delivery ceremony for its first A320-200 at Miami Int'l on January 17, “marking the beginning of the new passenger and cargo airline,” the company said in a statement released on January 19.

The delivery ceremony brings the new-entrant airline one step closer to receiving Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification, which it hopes to complete by the end of March.

N223FR (msn 2695), due to be re-registered as N276GX, owned by DAE Capital, was ferried from Amarillo, where it had been repainted in the start-up’s blue-and-green livery, on January 17 to Miami. It is the first delivery of two aircraft scheduled for the first quarter of 2021.

Ed Wegel, chairman and chief executive of GLOBALX, said that “we are building our airline around Airbus with the A320 and A321 in passenger configuration, and later this year with the first of many A321 cargo aircraft. We hope to operate the A330 as well.”

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