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Swiss to wet-lease A220s for Winter 2022/23

Swiss (LX, Zurich) has announced it will wet-lease up to six A220-300s from airBaltic (BT, Riga) for the Winter 2022/23 season, alongside an ongoing capacity purchase agreement with Helvetic Airways (2L, Zurich).

"This collaboration with airBaltic will enable us to further stabilise our own flight schedules and give our customers even greater reliability for making their travel plans. On top of this, it should also help further relieve the present pressures on our cabin crew corps," Chief Commercial Officer Tamur Goudarzi Pour said.

The airline underlined that the wet-lease would be operationally efficient thanks to fleet commonality. Swiss operates nine A220-100s and twenty-one -300s, making it Europe's second-largest operator of the family behind airBaltic (which has thirty-six -300s in its fleet).

Swiss does not operate any regional or small narrowbody aircraft in-house. It wet-leases a substantial fleet of Embraer regional jets from Helvetic Airways under a long-term partnership covering a minimum of six aircraft with more added depending on demand. In the current summer season, Helvetic...

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Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) has announced it will wet-lease an A320-200 from DAT LT (R6, Kaunas) between June 20 and October 29, 2022.

"DAT LT will be operating selected flights on our Helsinki Vantaa-Copenhagen Kastrup route in June, and on Oulu and Lisbon routes between July and October. The leased aircraft and crew are supporting Finnair's operational stability during the busy summer season," the Finnish carrier said.

The ch-aviation schedules module indicates that the aircraft will operate 2x daily between Helsinki and Copenhagen from June 20 through July 1. Subsequently, it will be deployed daily to Lisbon and 5x weekly to Oulu.

The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows that Finnair's in-house narrowbody fleet comprises six A319-100s, ten A320-200s, and nineteen A321-200s. In turn, DAT LT's A320 Family fleet includes two A320-200s and one A321-200s. One of the A320s is wet-leased to Corendon Airlines Europe (XR, Malta Int'l) and the A321 to Corendon Airlines (XC, Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen),...

Editorial Comment: The article updates with schedule details. - 01.06.2022 - 15:10 UTC