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Good Morning! My name is Suparna and I'm a Data Engineer for our Aviation Intelligence Platform -Redbook. I''ll be providing you with the daily news for March 7th 2018. In fleet and deliveries, Delta Air Lines took delivery of one A321-200 and one A350-900. SunExpress Germany took delivery of one 737-800. Fiji Link took delivery of one DHC-6 - 400 Twin Otter Atlas Air has acquired two Boeing 777 Freighters from LATAM Airlines. Air Arabia plans to order 100 single-aisle aircraft and has contacted Boeing and Airbus. Somon Air plans to purchase four Embraer E190-E2 aircraft. In Airlines and Financials, Cathay Pacific and Air Astana announced a codeshare agreement which will allow Cathay Pacific to have a better connectivity to Kazakhstan and Air Astana to have a better connectivity to Asia and Australia. Bombardier has made an agreement to sell about 500 Million US Dollar of its equity to a syndicate of underwriters in Canada. Uzbekistan Airways has decided to cease operating their IL-114-100 aircraft and replace them with Airbus A320s. In February 2018 traffic results, Volaris reported an increased passenger growth of 12% and increased total demand by 14.2% compared to february last year. Norwegian reported an increased passenger growth of 11.4% as compared to february last year Icelandair reported a decrease in number of passengers by 5% on international flights and 3 % on domestic flights as compared to February last year. And finally, In Regulatory news, The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has put a ban on eight carriers which is valid from February 28th, 2018 until May 31st, 2018. That’s it for today, thanks for listening and join us again tomorrow for more daily aviation news!