Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian.com) (Oslo) has announced it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to lease one new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner long haul aircraft from ILFC. The aircraft is the third leased Dreamliner from ILFC, and the sixth Dreamliner on order for Norwegian.

Norwegian will take delivery of the aircraft in early 2014. The lease term is for 12 years.

So far this year, the company has received 12 new Boeing 737-800s. A further three will be delivered from Boeing later this year. At the same time, older Boeing 737-300s are being phased out. As of July 2011, Norwegian has 35 new Boeing 737-800 in its fleet.

On the financial side, Norwegian reported second quarter net profit of $9.6 million.

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