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Feb 11, 2014 (newstodate): The Lithuanian charter and ACMI carrier Small Planet Airlines is looking forward to a busy 2014 summer season.
The carrier will be operating a total of nine Airbus A320 aircraft, with two pending delivery later this spring, as well as two Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
Plans are to phase out the Boeing 737-300 aircraft entirely from the fleet in 2014, but after the grounding of Small Planet Airlines in Italy, one Boeing 737-300 aircraft was returned to Lithuania, where Small Planet Airlines still has one similar aircraft in the fleet pending its return to the lessor.
Two A320 will be operated in the carrier's home market Lithuania, four aircraft will be operated in Poland, in the UK Small Planet Airlines will operate one Boeing 737-300 at Manchester and one Airbus A320 at London Gatwick, while one airbus A320 will be operated at Paris, France.
The last remaining Airbus A320 will then be kept as a reserve capacity by the airline.
-All our aircraft are fully contracted for this coming season, and we are happy to have secured their lease contract well in advance, while the market is currently short of capacity with increased leasing costs as a consequence, says Vytautas Kaikaris, Small Planet Airlines CEO.
The carrier will be operating a total of nine Airbus A320 aircraft, with two pending delivery later this spring, as well as two Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
Plans are to phase out the Boeing 737-300 aircraft entirely from the fleet in 2014, but after the grounding of Small Planet Airlines in Italy, one Boeing 737-300 aircraft was returned to Lithuania, where Small Planet Airlines still has one similar aircraft in the fleet pending its return to the lessor.
Two A320 will be operated in the carrier's home market Lithuania, four aircraft will be operated in Poland, in the UK Small Planet Airlines will operate one Boeing 737-300 at Manchester and one Airbus A320 at London Gatwick, while one airbus A320 will be operated at Paris, France.
The last remaining Airbus A320 will then be kept as a reserve capacity by the airline.
-All our aircraft are fully contracted for this coming season, and we are happy to have secured their lease contract well in advance, while the market is currently short of capacity with increased leasing costs as a consequence, says Vytautas Kaikaris, Small Planet Airlines CEO.