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Feb 22, 2016 (newstodate): The Faroese carrier Atlantic Airways is continuing its fleet development plans with new aircraft to be delivered in 2016.
-Biggest news in 2016 will be the delivery of our largest aircraft, the Airbus A320, by December 2016, says Johanni a Bergi, Atlantic Airways CEO since September 1, 2015.
-In our configuration, the A320 will have 168 seats, compared to the 144 seats on our three Airbus A319 aircraft, and this extra capacity will allow us to expand our offering on not least the route between the Faroe Islands and Denmark. We expect the A320 to come in time for being introduced on the routes already in time for the Christmas peak.
-One of the three Airbus A319 will be redelivered to its owner by September or October which will be in the slack season, and after this the two remaining A319 aircraft will serve on our scheduled routes, with one aircraft dedicated to the shorter flights under the NORD strategy until our future regional aircraft type has been found.
-We are in no hurry to decide on the future regional aircraft type, though, as it turned out that this is more complicated than initially envisaged. The reason is that we require also the regional aircraft, probably a turboprop aircraft, to be able to implement the RNP satellite guided precision approach system, and this has proved to be an issue.
-I assume that we will end up with a viable solution and make a decision on the future regional aircraft type later this year.
-As for the rotary wing fleet, we took in the first of two AW139 helicopters in December 2015, and the second will be delivered in April or May, 2016.
-These aircraft serve three purposes: one is SAR operations as well as medic flights, another is scheduled services to outlying hamlets with four weekly flights, in both cases on contracts with the Faroese state. A third purpose, then, is charter and ACMI operations to optimize the use of spare and excess capacity, says Ms a Bergi
-Biggest news in 2016 will be the delivery of our largest aircraft, the Airbus A320, by December 2016, says Johanni a Bergi, Atlantic Airways CEO since September 1, 2015.
-In our configuration, the A320 will have 168 seats, compared to the 144 seats on our three Airbus A319 aircraft, and this extra capacity will allow us to expand our offering on not least the route between the Faroe Islands and Denmark. We expect the A320 to come in time for being introduced on the routes already in time for the Christmas peak.
-One of the three Airbus A319 will be redelivered to its owner by September or October which will be in the slack season, and after this the two remaining A319 aircraft will serve on our scheduled routes, with one aircraft dedicated to the shorter flights under the NORD strategy until our future regional aircraft type has been found.
-We are in no hurry to decide on the future regional aircraft type, though, as it turned out that this is more complicated than initially envisaged. The reason is that we require also the regional aircraft, probably a turboprop aircraft, to be able to implement the RNP satellite guided precision approach system, and this has proved to be an issue.
-I assume that we will end up with a viable solution and make a decision on the future regional aircraft type later this year.
-As for the rotary wing fleet, we took in the first of two AW139 helicopters in December 2015, and the second will be delivered in April or May, 2016.
-These aircraft serve three purposes: one is SAR operations as well as medic flights, another is scheduled services to outlying hamlets with four weekly flights, in both cases on contracts with the Faroese state. A third purpose, then, is charter and ACMI operations to optimize the use of spare and excess capacity, says Ms a Bergi