Newsstand - JMC Airlines goes with Boeing 757-300 & ILF goes with Airbus A320, -30-200s-&-40-600s

Boeing confirmed today that JMC Airlines has placed an order for two Boeing 757-300 jetliners. The Manchester, England-based airline is the fifth customer to announce its choice of the new 757-300, which entered service last year. This order was accounted for in cumulative order totals published recently by Boeing. Until this announcement, the customer for the order was listed as "unidentified."
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Not to be outdone, AI announced:

Airbus Industrie notes that International Lease Finance Corp., the industry's biggest leasing company, had signed an order to buy 50 aircraft. This order includes 40 A320 Family aircraft, seven A330-200s and three A340-600s. It brings the total of Airbus aircraft ordered by the Los Angeles-based leasing company to 391, making Airbus the largest single customer of the consortium, a company statement said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/f/AP-Airbus.html


So if you are keeping score, that puts Airbus ahead of Boeing so far for the year 2000!
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-transport-ai.html


[This message has been edited by doc (edited 05-11-2000).]

In the first month of 2001, cumulative orders for the new Boeing 757-300 more than doubled, with 33 confirmed orders for the single-aisle airplane, The Boeing Company said today.

In January, Boeing confirmed orders from Continental Airlines for 15 757-300s and from Northwest Airlines for 18 757-300s. Orders for the Boeing 757-300 now total 62.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010201/wa_boeing__2.html