Belair Airlines (Zurich) will take delivery of five A320-200s from sister carrier Niki (Austria) (Vienna) in January of next year Austrian Aviation News has reported.

According to the report, the aircraft - OE-LEC (cn 4316), OE-LEG (cn 4581), OE-LEF (cn 4368), OE-LEH (cn 4594), and OE-LEN (cn 3093) - will be re-registered in Switzerland and operated by Belair.

The move forms part of the restructuring of parent firm Air Berlin (1991) (Berlin Tegel) wherein Niki's lost capacity will be replaced with five as-yet-unspecified machines.

As with Niki, Belair is an Air Berlin production company whose fleet currently entails two A319-100s and five A320-200s.