TAM CEO Marco Antonio Bologna resigned Wednesday to join TAM Empreendimentos e Participacoes, which the airline described as "a company pertaining to the Company's controlling block." He will be succeeded by VP-Operations David Barioni Neto, who in turn will be succeeded by Fernando Sporleder Jr.

Rolls-Royce yesterday said the engines selected by Hawaiian Airlines on Wednesday are worth $460 million at list prices. HA placed an order for six Trent XWB-powered A350 XWB-800s and six Trent 700-powered A330-200s (ATWOnline, Nov. 29).

Airbus's hopes to make some quick sales of the A380 to ANA and Cathay Pacific Airways appear to have faded, with the former playing down speculation that it is on the verge of ordering the aircraft. A spokesperson told ATWOnline yesterday that ANA is "continuously in talks with the manufacturers and will watch the introduction of the A380 with interest and examine it and the 747-8I when the time is right." At last month's handover of the first A380 to Singapore Airlines (ATWOnline, Oct.

Air China plans to order 40 Airbus aircraft in the next five years to support its European expansion, President Li Jiaxiang revealed yesterday at the EU-China Business Summit in Beijing.

Bombardier Aerospace reported EBIT of $122 million for the fiscal third quarter ended Oct. 31, nearly triple the $43 million earned during the same period a year ago. Revenue was up 21% to $2.3 billion due primarily to higher manufacturing revenues for business and regional aircraft and higher service revenues. The company received 124 net orders during the three months, up 30.5% from 95 in the year-ago period. Of that number, 112 were business aircraft and 12 were regional transports including 10 Q400s. As of Oct. 31, the firm order backlog was worth a record $19.6 billion.