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Air Serbia has extended the wet-lease of two 108-seat Embraer E190 aircraft from Bulgaria Air into 2025. In a statement, the Bulgarian flag carrier said, “In late October, an official meeting in Belgrade brought together representatives from both airlines to solidify their successful partnership. The discussion focused on extending the lease of Embraer E190 aircraft from Bulgaria Air's fleet for use on Air Serbia's scheduled route network. Building on the success of their collaboration during the summer season, the meeting concluded with the signing of a new one-year leasing agreement for the aircraft., which was attended by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bulgaria Air, Hristo Todorov, and the General Manager of Charter Operations and Aircraft Leasing at Bulgaria Air, Maria Stoyanova. On Air Serbia’s side, the meeting was attended by CEO Jiri Marek, General Manager for Commercial and Strategy, Boško Rupić, as well as Head of Network Planning and Scheduling, Bojan Arandjelović”. The company added, “The two airlines explored opportunities to expand their collaboration and agreed that strengthening their partnership would benefit both the growth of their aviation businesses and the enhancement of bilateral relations between their respective countries. As in the previous season, Bulgaria Air's aircraft will continue to operate scheduled flights under the Serbian national carrier's code. However, the aircraft will retain Bulgaria Air's external branding, and the crew will continue to wear uniforms featuring the airline's logo and the colors of the Bulgarian flag”. A wet-lease is a leasing arrangement whereby the lessor provides an aircraft, complete crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) to another airline.
Bulgaria Air has 4 E190s. Wonder if they will go for the other two, if Bulgaria Air is offering them that is.
ReplyDeleteI think they will. They have scheduled notable growth for summer and they will need aircraft for that. E190 is perfect for growing frequencies to BRU/HAM/HAJ/NUE and to reintroduce CGN/FLR/MRS.
DeleteThey should buy those planes and hire it’s crews
DeleteThey are, third will come in April and fourth in May
DeleteWhat‘s happening with YU-ATA?
ReplyDeleteProbably need crews
DeleteThere was an article that came out I'll list it here: https://www.b92.net/biz/fokus/intervju/80227/er-srbija-za-b92net-stizu-i-novi-avioni-i-nove-destinacije-moguca-jos-jedna-linija-za-kinu/vest
DeleteThey said they already have the crew needed.
Nista, avion se vraca navodno. Problem sa dokumentacijom koji ne moze da se resi.
DeleteNice pic.
ReplyDeleteSo Bulgaria Air isn't that busy so they lease out their planes and crew?
ReplyDeleteLike airBaltic, they earn additional revenue from ACMI. They're actually doing pretty well unlike Wizz. In Sofia they and Ryanair perform well, Wizz fell not only in Sofia. Like Montenegro, Bulgaria expects sanctions to fall, Bulgaria Air had more than 50 flights a week from Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg to Varna and Burgas. ACMI seems to be a good substitute.
DeleteThey also created their subsidiary airline Bul Air to obtain permission for flights of two legal entities from the Ministry of Transport of Russia. However, they clarified in several press conferences that the scheduled flight network will be supported by the A220-100/300. Some of the old aircraft will be on the ACMI and Russian market.
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