Airbus Updates No.4000

 

Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to lease two A321s

Jazeera Airways Airbus A320-200© Jazeera Airways

08.05.2023 - 05:28 UTC

The board of Jazeera Airways (J9, Kuwait) has approved leasing two A320-200s and two A321-200s at a board meeting held in Kuwait on May 2, 2023. The aircraft will provide the Kuwaiti budget carrier with capacity ahead while awaiting deliveries of A320neo family aircraft from Airbus.

According to a filing with the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE), the transaction is expected to have a positive impact on the carrier's revenues and operations "but the immediate impact cannot be quantified." Jazeera Airways presently operates a fleet of nine A320-200s and eleven A320-200Ns, 16 of which are leased. In notes accompanying a May 3 earnings call, the airline said it expects to grow its fleet to 24 by the end of the year. Jazeera Airways has an outstanding order with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for twenty A320-200Ns and eight A321-200Ns.

In March, ch-aviation reported that Jazeera Airways was wet-leasing an A320-200 from Dan Air (JOC, Bucharest Baneasa) to provide a short-term capacity top up over the Ramadan, Eid, and Umrah Pilgrimage peaks ahead of additional aircraft arriving in mid-2023.

Jazeera Airways also reported this week that 2023 is shaping up as a busier year than 2022 and that yields have "completely normalised and expected to continue within normal parameters." The airline expects a busy summer season and says it will give greater attention to connecting flights focusing on Umrah, commuting, students and business travel. Jazeera Airways also recently announced that it will resume flights to Prague Václav Havel and Sarajevo over the upcoming summer.

Airbus Updates No.3756

 

Romania's Dan Air adds first A320

© Tis Meyer (PlanePics.org)

01.08.2022 - 12:52 UTC

Dan Air (JOC, Bucharest Baneasa) took delivery of its first A320-200 and inducted it into service on July 23, 2022.

Owned by Aviator Capital, YR-DSE (msn 2479) is a 17.2-year-old jet that was ferried post-maintenance from Craiova to Suceava on July 23 and subsequently operated its first flight to Antalya on behalf of Air Bucharest (BUR, Bucharest Baneasa). Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows it continues to operate mainly on behalf of Air Bucharest - a passenger charter specialist with no active in-house aircraft - but has also flown single charters under Dan Air's own code.

Then known as Just Us Air, Dan Air operated a single A320 between 2019 and 2020 but retired it during the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2021, it revealed plans to reinduct the type with three units planned for 2022. The other two units, YR-RAM (msn 3782) and VT-INY (msn 3863), remain in storage at Craiova airport. Dan Air also operates one A319-100 for Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade).