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Apr 25, 2014 (newstodate): Lithuania's ACMI carrier Small Planet Airlines has been successful in its operations in Libya since early March 2014.
Small Planet Airlines has been contracted by the state-owned Libyan airline Afriqiyah Airways to operate regular flights from Tripoli International Airport to airports in Western Europe.
Under the two-months contract, Small Planet airline based two Airbus A320 aircraft at Tripoli to provide flights on routes to Dusseldorf, London Gatwick, and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
This contract, expiring by the end of April, has now been extended with one additional month, running till end of May 2014.
In the Asian market, Small Planet Airlines has been contracted since October 2013 by Bhutan Airlines operating a daily Airbus A320 flight between Bangkok and Paro, in Bhutan.
This Airbus aircraft is now returning to Lithuania again from May 1, 2014, as will also be the case with the two aircraft stationed in Libya as their contract expires.
-We are fully sold out in summer in Europe on full-charter basis on all our fleet, so we will need all capacity ourselves, says Vytautas Kaikaris, Small Planet Airlines CEO.
Small Planet Airlines has been contracted by the state-owned Libyan airline Afriqiyah Airways to operate regular flights from Tripoli International Airport to airports in Western Europe.
Under the two-months contract, Small Planet airline based two Airbus A320 aircraft at Tripoli to provide flights on routes to Dusseldorf, London Gatwick, and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
This contract, expiring by the end of April, has now been extended with one additional month, running till end of May 2014.
In the Asian market, Small Planet Airlines has been contracted since October 2013 by Bhutan Airlines operating a daily Airbus A320 flight between Bangkok and Paro, in Bhutan.
This Airbus aircraft is now returning to Lithuania again from May 1, 2014, as will also be the case with the two aircraft stationed in Libya as their contract expires.
-We are fully sold out in summer in Europe on full-charter basis on all our fleet, so we will need all capacity ourselves, says Vytautas Kaikaris, Small Planet Airlines CEO.