In Brief: Preussag and White Eagle; Okecie tender; CASA plane purchase

German concern Preussag, owner of the TUI and Scan Holiday travel agencies, plans to acquire a 29.3% stake in Poland's largest private airline. White Eagle Aviation, owned by Zbigniew Niemczycki, has 13 aircraft including two Boeing 737-400s and one ATR42. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4) ... Six companies, Bouygues Batiment, Hochtief, Skanska, Ferrovial-Budimex, Strabag, and Bill-finger & Berger, are bidding in the tender for the expansion of Warsaw's Okecie airport. The contract is estimated to be worth zl.1.5 billion. (Puls Biznesu, p. 11) ... According to Rzeczpospolita, the government is preparing the final documents for the purchase of eight to ten CASA C295 transport planes from Spain. The agreement is likely to be signed next week, when Polish pilots will be celebrating Aviation Day. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.Z. i Correction: In yesterday's IN BRIEF section we misspelled the name of German tobacco concern Reemtsma. We apologize for the error.