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Insel Air modifies its livery with larger titles

Copyright Photo: Royal S. King. Ex-Alitalia DC-9-82 PJ-SNC (msn 49434) arrived on September 14, 2009 and is pictured at St. Maarten.

Insel Air International (Curacao) with the delivery of its third jetliner, modified its 2006 livery to now include much larger Insel Air titles.

Boeing delivers 777-367 B-KPL in Oneworld colors

Boeing (Chicago, Seattle, Wichita and Charleston, SC) on October 17 delivered the new 777-367 ER B-KPL (msn 36161) to BOC Aviation for its customer Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong). The jetliner is painted in the Oneworld color scheme. B-KPL is the 12th 777-367 ER for Cathay Pacific.

News link:

finance.yahoo.com/news/Boeing-Delivers-Cathay-prnews-2222565602.html?x=0&.v=1

Copyright Photo: Royal S. King.

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http://airlinersgallery.com/2/23c36af/#/gallery/whats-new-hot-new-photos/cathay-pacific-777-300-b-kpl-09-oneworld-apr-pae-r2-lr-903764/

FedEx Express takes delivery of first Boeing 777F

Copyright Photo: Royal S. King.  Please click on photo for more photos.

Copyright Photo: Royal S. King. Please click on photo for more photos.

FedEx Express (Memphis) yesterday (September 22) took delivery of its first Boeing 777F freighter (777-FS2, N850FD, msn 37721). The 777F will fly between the United States and Asia. The 777F will be capable of flying 5,800 nautical miles, 2,100 nm further than the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F it will replace.

Press release:

finance.yahoo.com/news/FedEx-Express-to-Take-bw-73758991.html?x=0&.v=1

Cathay Pacific to sell HAECO stake to Swire

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Copyright Photo: Royal S. King. Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong) will sell its HAECO stake to its largest shareholder, Swire Pacific, to raise cash. Cathay will also sell and lease-back six new Boeing 777-300 ERs on order to raise additional capital.

News link:

www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=ap0OjaYP6e.M

Photographers spoil Air Canada’s Olympic surprise

News article (we like to think of it as recording airline history, all photos welcome):

www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=12396.html#plane+spotters+spoil+air+canadas+olympic

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Sun Country has another profitable quarter

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Sun Country Airlines (MN Airlines LLC dba) (Minneapolis/St. Paul) reported a first quarter net profit of $8.1 million. This is a reversal of a net loss of $8.3 million in the same period a year ago.

LAN Cargo’s first new 777F to go into service

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LAN Cargo's (Chile) brand new Boeing 777-F6N freighter (N772LA, msn 37708) lands at Everett after a test flight at Boeing.  Copyright Photo: Royal S. King.

LAN Cargo's (Chile) brand new Boeing 777-F6N freighter (N772LA, msn 37708) lands at Everett after a test flight at Boeing. Copyright Photo: Royal S. King.

LAN Cargo’s (LAN Airlines) (Santiago) will take delivery of its first (of four)ย brand new Boeing 777-F6N registered N772LA (msn 37708) in a ceremony on April 16 at Everett. It is due to then ferry to Miami where it will enter revenue cargo service between MIA and SCL on April 17.