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Dec 06, 2021 (newstodate): Avion Express Malta is expanding its ACMI business in the Americas.
On June 12, 2021, the carrier performed its first passenger flights from Miami to Punta Cana with an Airbus A321 aircraft, joined by a second A321 aircraft on flights to the Dominican Republic.
The operations are performed under an ACMI agreement between Avion Express Malta and the Dominican airline Sky Cana signed in May 2020, with the first of the two aircraft delivered in Sky Cana's livery in November 2020.
Now, the cooperation has been expanded with the addition of a third Airbus A321 aircraft from Avion Express Malta, and with this Sky Cana is to open its first scheduled flights from Punta Cana to New York from December 15, 2021.
The Lithuanian ACMI and charter carrier Avion Express' Maltese subsidiary Avion Express Malta obtained its Maltese AOC in May 2019, starting out with one Airbus A320 aircraft that commenced flights for Norwegian on May 20, 2019.
Avion Express Malta applied for Foreign Air Carrier Permits and Exemption Authority by the US regulator DOT on July 3, 2019, and was granted rights on August 22, 2019, opening up for new business potentials as a provider of ACMI narrow-body services in the US market.