Airbus Updates No.3609

 

Spirit to, again, lease more A320neos

Spirit Airlines has again decided to lease additional A320neos. This time the airline reached a deal with SMBC Aviation Capital to lease six more A320neos, which will be delivered between September 2022 and February 2023. The six are coming from SMBC's existing orderbook with Airbus. Next to this addition, the airline also sold and will lease-back fourteen A320neos it had on order directly with Airbus.

Earlier this month, the airline also announced it would lease twenty more A320neos from AerCap. In total, the airline now has open orders and lease-commitments for 35 A319neos (directly with Airbus), 89 A320neos (49 directly with Airbus, twenty with SMBC and twenty with AerCap) and 30 A321neos (twenty directly with Airbus, ten with ALC).