I answered to similar thread on Boeing's Unidentified orders at the same time as I did to this. This member obviously would like to try and find out some information on his request. The thread on Boeing has 14 replies, this has 2, both by me.
Another is China's GTA for 150 A320s. Has anyone heard about how this order will be split amongst the various Chinese carriers?
Surely there must be some members out there whom can help with the enquiry? I too would like to know more about these orders. Any more info would be appreciated,
DEVILFISH From Philippines, joined Jan 2006, 2777 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (2 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 534 times:
Quoting Spk (Reply 5): One A319CJ may be Thailand's Royal Family aircraft. Thai government ordered it last year.
So, the current ACJ will have a stable mate? Splendid news. Sawasdee.
Quoting PanAm_DC10 (Reply 1):
5 x A318CJ ELITE for an undisclosed Corporation
The one big mystery are these. Are we sure these are not part of the previous options with Comlux and NAS? Were these ordered directly from Airbus or through a leasing company? Does anybody know of a new outfit in the Asia Pacific region starting up a charter operation or a first/business class only type of service a la PrivatAir?
Sales of the Airbus A318 Elite have reached double-figures with a further five firm orders from an undisclosed multinational corporation. The deal takes A318 Elite sales to 13 aircraft plus eight options, and those of the Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) Family to more than 60.
All five A318 Elites will be outfitted by Lufthansa Technik, and be powered by CFM International CFM56-5 engines.
Launched at the NBAA show in November, when Swiss-based VIP charter company Comlux ordered three plus three options, the Airbus A318 Elite quickly won a further five orders and five options from NAS, the largest provider of VVIP and executive air transport in the Middle East. It now has three customers to its credit.
There, both orders are mentioned seperately. Go to the Press Centre at http://www.airbus.com and you'll see another release for NAS in November 2005 if you do a search. Can't link it for some reason
So one has been booked as firm on December 14 2005 whilst another remains in the "pending" category
So sorry, you shouldn't have gone into that much trouble again on my account. I pretty much have those press releases on their website memorized. It's just that I seem to recall reading in AIR International or Flight Global last week about five unidentified Elite orders, and thought that must be what was being referred to in your post. Now I'm not sure if I had really read such and if it was a new order. Memory does start to play tricks when one ages. Anyway, the mystery I'm up about is not so much if the order was real, but rather who the customer was.
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