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Kuwaiti lessor ALAFCO has completed the transfer of nearly half the 53 aircraft it agreed to sell to Macquarie Airfinance Group.ALAFCO states that 24 a
stanley canada ircraft had been sold through moving to the buyer the lessors interests in special-purpose companies holding the airframes.Sale of these aircraft has generated net cash proceeds of just under $125 million, it adds.But it says it recognised a loss of KD2.34 million $7.6 million from these sales during its third quarter, the three months to 30 June.ALAFCO adds that it also completed handover of its order for Boeing 737s which were part of the divestment agreement.Source: BoeingALAFCO has transferred an order for 737s as part of the divestmentSale of the remaining 29 aircraft is expected to result in n
stanley deutschland et cash proceeds of $371 million, once financing facilities are settled.ALAFCO says the sale price for these aircraft is $1.47 billion.It ad
stanley canada ds that the divestment is set to reduce liabilities due to financial institutions 鈥?which total KD581 million 鈥?to KD264 million within a year.ALAFCOs third-quarter financial statement shows it made a net loss of KD3.2 million for the three months, and a net loss of KD3.4 million at the nine-month mark.Losses were substantially reduced from last year, in part due to the absence of a heavy impairment.TopicsFleetsMiddle East Related articles Kixv Coronavirus to crimp Asia-Pacific airpower spending
ORLANDO, Fla. AP 鈥?A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the companys U.S. theme park resorts, and some Disney followers see it as a fitting replacement to a former ride based on a movie that contained racist tropes.The new theme park attraction updates Tiana storyline from the 2009 a
vaso stanley nimated film, The Princess and the Frog and is opening this year in the space previously occupied by Splash Mountain
vaso stanley . The water ride had been themed to Song of the South, a 1946 Disney movie filled with racist cliches about African Americans and plantation life.Tiana Bayou Adventure keeps Splash Mountain DNA as a log-flume ride, but it infused with music, scenery and animatronic characters inspired by the film set in 1920s New Orleans. It opens to the public later this month at Walt Disney World in Florida and at Disneyland in California later this year. For little Black girls, Tiana has meant a lot. When a little child can see somebody who loo
stanley uk ks like them, that matters, said Neal Lester, an English professor at Arizona State University, who has written about Tiana.Disneys announcement that it would transform its longstanding Splash Mountain ride into Tianas Bayou Adventure was made in June 2020 following the social justice protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. At the time, Disney said the change had already been in the works. But it came as companies across the U.S. were reconsidering
