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Feb 27, 2014 (newstodate): Estonian Air is seeing the first positive results from the cooperation with ACS over excess aircraft capacity.
The carrier is currently operating a network requiring five aircraft - leaving two Embraer 170 aircraft redundant and burdening its cost structure.
In an effort to balance these costs, Estonian Air has placed one aircraft with ACS in Birmingham to offer charter and ACMI services in the European market, and V�xj� Sm�land Airport in Sweden has contracted Estonian Air to serve the route between V�xj� and Amsterdam with the second Embraer 170 aircraft starting from May 2014 and offering eight weekly rotations in a code-share with KLM.
-Our cooperation with ACS is starting to generate a significant volume of charter missions, and already now the bookings of the aircraft have reached about half of the total budgeted for the full year 2014, says Jan Palmer, Estonian Air CEO.
-The projected V�xj�-Amsterdam flights will utilize our second aircraft from May 5. We thus expect to achieve positive contributions from both charter and ACMI aircraft, says Mr Palmer.
The carrier is currently operating a network requiring five aircraft - leaving two Embraer 170 aircraft redundant and burdening its cost structure.
In an effort to balance these costs, Estonian Air has placed one aircraft with ACS in Birmingham to offer charter and ACMI services in the European market, and V�xj� Sm�land Airport in Sweden has contracted Estonian Air to serve the route between V�xj� and Amsterdam with the second Embraer 170 aircraft starting from May 2014 and offering eight weekly rotations in a code-share with KLM.
-Our cooperation with ACS is starting to generate a significant volume of charter missions, and already now the bookings of the aircraft have reached about half of the total budgeted for the full year 2014, says Jan Palmer, Estonian Air CEO.
-The projected V�xj�-Amsterdam flights will utilize our second aircraft from May 5. We thus expect to achieve positive contributions from both charter and ACMI aircraft, says Mr Palmer.