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Feb 24, 2017 (newstodate): The charter and ACMI carrier Small Planet Airlines had a good year in 2016 with strong growth, adding six aircraft to its fleet as well as launching its German subsidiary.
-This year we will slow down in growth and add only one aircraft, an Airbus A320 to be registered on our German AOC, says Vytautas Kaikaris, Small Planet Airlines Group CEO.
-Our focus in 2017 will be on enhancing and consolidating the quality of operations to secure on-time performance, and much effort will be invested into introducing a range of new systems, including AMOS in aircraft maintenance, and other systems to improve and secure our processes and getting things right. Through these efforts conditions for renewed growth and expansion will be in place for 2018 and beyond.
-So far, we have managed to double the size of our company every second year. We have now grown from being a small to a medium-size airline, and when a staff roster exceeds the 150-mark procedures must be tightened and formalized, while much has until then been secured by inter-personal relations and hands-on experience.
-In 2017 we will have 22 aircraft in the fleet, and as a kind of unique luxury for an airline two of these will be kept on a stand-by basis to secure back-up capacity for our own operations as well as being available for other carriers on ad-hoc charters.
-We took a big hit in 2016 due to seriously delayed deliveries of our four Airbus A321 aircraft. We had to charter external capacity to fulfill our contracts and our image in the market was understandably deeply affected.
-But we openly admitted this, and with the redundancy in capacity now with two aircraft we will definitely fight our way back to customer satisfaction.
-And most importantly: we did not lose any of our customers despite the temporary difficulties, says Mr Kaikaris.
-This year we will slow down in growth and add only one aircraft, an Airbus A320 to be registered on our German AOC, says Vytautas Kaikaris, Small Planet Airlines Group CEO.
-Our focus in 2017 will be on enhancing and consolidating the quality of operations to secure on-time performance, and much effort will be invested into introducing a range of new systems, including AMOS in aircraft maintenance, and other systems to improve and secure our processes and getting things right. Through these efforts conditions for renewed growth and expansion will be in place for 2018 and beyond.
-So far, we have managed to double the size of our company every second year. We have now grown from being a small to a medium-size airline, and when a staff roster exceeds the 150-mark procedures must be tightened and formalized, while much has until then been secured by inter-personal relations and hands-on experience.
-In 2017 we will have 22 aircraft in the fleet, and as a kind of unique luxury for an airline two of these will be kept on a stand-by basis to secure back-up capacity for our own operations as well as being available for other carriers on ad-hoc charters.
-We took a big hit in 2016 due to seriously delayed deliveries of our four Airbus A321 aircraft. We had to charter external capacity to fulfill our contracts and our image in the market was understandably deeply affected.
-But we openly admitted this, and with the redundancy in capacity now with two aircraft we will definitely fight our way back to customer satisfaction.
-And most importantly: we did not lose any of our customers despite the temporary difficulties, says Mr Kaikaris.