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Feb 03, 2010 (newstodate): Leading Icelandic lessor and ACMI provider, Air Atlanta Icelandic is "cautiously optimistic" about prospects for 2010.
-We have come off to a better-than-expected start of the year. All our aircraft are flying, though not all at peak performance, but it is still a decent opening of the first quarter that is always the most demanding in our business, says Baldvin M. Hermannsson, Air Atlanta Icelandic VP Sales & Marketing.
-We will have to go some three or four months deeper into the year to know better how things will develop, but we are continuing the modernization of our fleet and will take in new aircraft as warranted by the market. In 2009 we added four Boeing 747-400 aircraft - and not many operators matched this.
-Whether the market will demand passenger aircraft or freighters remains in the balance. In the short term the trend will probably be towards more passenger aircraft, but the demand for freighters may pick up again during the third or the last quarter of 2010, says Mr Hermansson.
-We have come off to a better-than-expected start of the year. All our aircraft are flying, though not all at peak performance, but it is still a decent opening of the first quarter that is always the most demanding in our business, says Baldvin M. Hermannsson, Air Atlanta Icelandic VP Sales & Marketing.
-We will have to go some three or four months deeper into the year to know better how things will develop, but we are continuing the modernization of our fleet and will take in new aircraft as warranted by the market. In 2009 we added four Boeing 747-400 aircraft - and not many operators matched this.
-Whether the market will demand passenger aircraft or freighters remains in the balance. In the short term the trend will probably be towards more passenger aircraft, but the demand for freighters may pick up again during the third or the last quarter of 2010, says Mr Hermansson.