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Mar 25, 2009 (newstodate): The Danish carrier DAT has found the current market to be tough for ad-hoc charter and ACMI services to the European aviation market.
In 2008 the carrier acquired one MD-87 through DAT's leasing arm, received its AOC on December 23, 2008, and had the aircraft ready for business from January, 2009.
But despite intense marketing efforts by DAT, the carrier has so far only seen few weekly operations.
-We will probably have to wait till the introduction of the coming summer airline schedules when the need for ad-hoc charters and ACMI operations will increase as carriers will require flexibility after having grounded much of their aircraft capacity during the crisis, says Ole Christiansen, DAT VP sales.
-As DAT's first jet aircraft, the MD-87 is ideally suited to this purpose, being relatively inexpensive on the ground and relatively expensive in the air due to rather high fuel consumption.
In 2008 the carrier acquired one MD-87 through DAT's leasing arm, received its AOC on December 23, 2008, and had the aircraft ready for business from January, 2009.
But despite intense marketing efforts by DAT, the carrier has so far only seen few weekly operations.
-We will probably have to wait till the introduction of the coming summer airline schedules when the need for ad-hoc charters and ACMI operations will increase as carriers will require flexibility after having grounded much of their aircraft capacity during the crisis, says Ole Christiansen, DAT VP sales.
-As DAT's first jet aircraft, the MD-87 is ideally suited to this purpose, being relatively inexpensive on the ground and relatively expensive in the air due to rather high fuel consumption.