Category Archives: Avion Express

Avion Express wet leases two additional Airbus A320 family aircraft to Sky Cana

Avion Express has wet leased two additional A320 family aircraft to Sky Cana. The lease period starts this month.

Avion Express extends its partnership with SunExpress for 2022 summer season

Avion Express has announced that the company will be continuing its partnership with SunExpress for the summer season of 2022.

During the season, Avion Express will damp-lease 6 aircraft to operate on behalf of SunExpress in the Antalya Airport (AYT) base.

SunExpress is a joint airline venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines. This summer season, the airline has been flying to 15 cities in Turkey, including, Antalya, Konya, and Mardin, as well as international destinations, which include Beirut, Milan, Nantes, Manchester, Tel Aviv, Budapest, and Skopje.

Avion Express aircraft photo gallery:

 

Sky Cana to wet lease 3 Airbus A321s and one A320 from Avion Express

Operated by Avion Express Malta

Avion Express has made this announcement:

Avion Express has announced the continuance and expansion of its successful partnership with Sky Cana, a start-up airline headquartered in Santo Domingo.

The companies have been in partnership for a few years and now the ACMI airline has signed a contract to wet-lease three Airbus A321s and one Airbus A320 aircraft to operate on behalf of the carrier for a one year period starting in April 2022 until March 2023.

Sky Cana is a Dominican air carrier, using ACMI for its operations. Working with some of the best tourist destinations in the Caribbean, the airline offers transfer, freight, overflight, helicopter, advertising, air ambulance, and tour services to locations in the United States of America, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.

Top Copyright Photo: Sky Cana-Go Puerto Plata Dominican Republic (Avion Express Malta) Airbus A321-231 9H-AMD (msn 1421) MIA (Tony Storck). Image: 956268.

Sky Cana aircraft slide show:

Avion Express to lease and operate 11 Airbus A320s for Eurowings this summer

Avion Express will wet lease and operate 11 Airbus A320s to Eurowings for the coming summer season.

Avion Express issued this statement:

After the successful and thorough selection process, we were nominated as the long-term ACMI provider for Eurowings. The cooperation to wet-lease 11 A320s commence in the beginning of the IATA summer season 2022.

Eurowings, headquartered at Cologne/Bonn Airport, is the leisure airline of the Lufthansa Group and thus part of the world’s largest aviation group. The airline currently flies to more than 100 destinations across Europe in its current flight schedule.

Eurowings is the market leader at the airports of Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn and currently has a fleet of around 100 #aircraft. Eurowings focuses on affordable products and services and offers a large number of nonstop flights within Europe. With its extensive route network and 11 international bases – including Palma de Mallorca on Europe’s number one vacation island – Eurowings is Germany’s largest leisure airline. Eurowings currently employs around 3,500 people across Europe.

Photo: Tiketatour.com (Avion Express Lithuania) Airbus A319-112 LY-TKT (msn 1102) AYT (Ton Jochems). Image: 954995.

2021 "Tiketa Tour" promotional livery, ex Brussels Airlines

Copyright Photo: Tiketatour.com (Avion Express Lithuania) Airbus A319-112 LY-TKT (msn 1102) AYT (Ton Jochems). Image: 954995.

Avion Express to wet lease four Airbus A320s to LOT Polish Airlines

Avion Express has announced it has landed an agreement to wet-lease four Airbus A320s to LOT Polish Airlines.

Previously LOT Polish Airlines announced new flights for summer 2020:

In Summer 2020 LOT will add new holiday destinations to its growing flight network from Budapest. Starting from June 2020, passengers will be able to fly directly from Hungary to Dubrovnik and Varna.

From May 6, 2020 the number of frequencies between Budapest and Seoul will be increased to four per week. The additional frequency will ensure even more convenient flight schedule for passengers travelling between Hungary and South Korea both for leisure and in business.

OT’s second hub. In a few months time, not only we will increase the number of frequencies on Budapest-New York route up to 7 flights per week – already in May, we will add another weekly frequency on our first route from Budapest to Asia. Launched in September this year, flights between Budapest and Seoul have been a huge success. Until today, the route have recorded an average load factor of 85%, which is the best evidence that passengers both from South Korea and Hungary recognize the convenience of the just started direct connections offered by LOT.

In the coming summer season, LOT also adjusts selected flights’ timelines. Due to Boeing 737 MAXs being still grounded and consequent lack of aircraft, LOT had to temporarily adjust frequencies on some of its short-haul flights between March 30 until May 26, 2020 (Stuttgart, Sofia, Bucharest will be lowered to 6 flights per week; Brussels – to 7 times per week). The flights to Prague and Belgrade will be launched on May 27, 2020. Thus, in the summer season, passengers from Hungary will be able to fly in total to as many as 13 destinations.

In summer season, the number of flights operated by LOT from the capital of Hungary will total 13 – passengers will fly directly to Warsaw, Krakow, London City (LCY), Bucharest, Brussels, Stuttgart, Prague, Belgrade, Sofia, Dubrovnik and Varna as well as New York City (JFK) and Seoul Incheon (ICN). To operate its newly announced European flights, additional LOT’s Embraer 195s will be permanently based in Budapest. The carrier’s fleet base in Budapest will amount to four short-haul aircraft and two Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Currently, LOT’s cabin crew operating nonstop flights from Budapest totals 80 flight attendants and a dozen Hungarian pilots. LOT has also opened the first Star Alliance Gold business lounge operated by an airline at the Budapest Airport.

The expansion of flights from Budapest is part of the airline’s profitable growth strategy, which LOT Polish Airlines has been implementing since early 2016. As a result, over the recent three years LOT has become one of the fastest growing airlines in Europe, doubled its fleet size and launched over 70 new routes worldwide.

The additional Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has joined the fleet early November, increasing the total number of LOT wide-body aircraft to 15.

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Avion Express expands its fleet to 18 aircraft

Avion Express, the largest narrow-body ACMI operator in the world, has signed leasing agreements for three additional Airbus A320 aircraft. These three aircraft have recently been added to the fleet of Avion Express, which now comprises of 18 Airbus A320 family aircraft. During summer-autumn 2018 all three newly leased-in aircraft will be flying on behalf of Avion Express clients in Europe.

With the addition of these three aircraft, Avion Express has completed its fleet expansion for 2018. The current fleet, which is the largest in the history of the company, has been growing consistently over the years back from 2011 when Avion Express started to operate its first Airbus A320 aircraft.

Following the latest additions to the fleet Avion Express CEO Darius Kajokas said, “In times of constantly growing demand for ACMI services, we have worked consistently to increase our fleet and strengthen our position in the market by assisting our clients worldwide. During 2018 and beyond we will continue working hard to further strengthen our stand as a forward-thinking leader in the ACMI market”.

Photo: Avion Express.

Avion Express leases two Airbus A321s for Thomas Cook Airlines

Avion Express has signed a leasing agreement with AviaAM Leasing, a Warsaw Stock Exchange listed aircraft leasing company, for two Airbus A321 aircraft.

Under the operating lease agreement, Avion Express will operate the aircraft for the next 6 years. Both aircraft will operate for Thomas Cook Airlines during the summer season. 

 

Avion Express is the largest narrow-body ACMI operator in the world successfully working with clients in Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean regions. In 2018 Avion Express will operate 18 Airbus A320 family aircraft.

Photo: Avion Express.

Wow Air is coming to Dublin on June 2, 2015

Wow Air (Keflavik) is coming to Dublin, Ireland. The Icelandic carrier is planning to launch a new Dublin-Keflavik (near Reykjavik) service from  June 2, 2015. The service, which will run year round, will see flights operating on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and marks the first scheduled service between the two locations.

The airline is also planning to introduce North American service to Boston next year (possibly in March) according to Airline Route.

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Operated by Avion Express for Wow Air, Airbus A320-232 TF-WOW (msn 2457) taxies at Amsterdam.

Route Map:

WOW Air 10.2014 Route Map

Wow Air: AG Slide Show

 

Wow Air logo with A320

Video: Aerial view of Iceland by Elisabetta Rosso:

 

Wow Air announces its plans for this winter

Wow Air (Keflavik) according to the new airline, “has announced increased competition in the marketplace, one of the main goals is to make flights to and from Iceland cheaper than ever.”

The airline flew to 13 destinations in Europe this summer; Copenhagen, London, Paris, Lyon, Alicante, Zurich, Basel, Stuttgart, Cologne, Berlin, Kaunas, Warsaw and Krakow.

This winter Wow Air will fly to Iceland from Berlin, London, and Alicante. Around Christmas the airline will offer flights to Copenhagen, Warsaw and Kaunas and over the ski season from December until March Wow Air offer ski flights to Salzburg.

Wow Air fleet consists of two Airbus A320s named WOW Force One and WOW Force Two. The aircraft are comfortably set up with 30-32 inch leg space and are wet leased from Avion Express.

Copyright Photo: Rolf Wallner. Airbus A320-231 LY-COS (msn 415) taxies at Zurich.