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Air Canada to wet-lease a B767 for Manchester route

Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) will wet-lease a B767-300ER from Omni Air International (OY, Tulsa International) to operate its seasonal Toronto Pearson-Manchester International route between mid-June and mid-July 2023.

The carrier plans to restart the 5x weekly service on June 17, 2023, using the wet-leased aircraft, the contract for which is currently scheduled through July 14, 2023. The ch-aviation schedules module shows that Air Canada will continue the seasonal route through October 1, 2023, but will deploy its in-house A330-300 after mid-July.

Air Canada's in-house widebody fleet comprises seventeen A330-300s, six B777-200(LR)s, nineteen B777-300(ER)s, eight B787-8s, and twenty-nine B787-9s. The airline retired all of its B767-300(ER)s, which were operated by LCC subsidiary Air Canada rouge (RV, Toronto Pearson), during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows that Omni Air operates eight B767-300(ER)s, currently chartered to the United States Air Force, alongside three B767-200(ER)s and three B777-200ERs.

Air Canada's Toronto-Manchester route will compete directly...

Canada's Air Transat to wet-lease A330s in Summer 2023

Canada's Air Transat wet-leases two B737 MAX

Air Transat (TS, Montréal Trudeau) has wet-leased two B737-8s from SmartLynx Airlines Malta (2N, Malta International) for flights to leisure destinations out of Halifax and Moncton, the ch-aviation schedules module shows.

9H-ETA (msn 60458) and 9H-CHI (msn 60459) were previously wet-leased to fellow Canadian operator Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson) for the New Year's peak. The former remained parked at Montréal Trudeau between January 6-22, 2023, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. Following a period of operations out of the Quebecois gateway, the aircraft was repositioned to Halifax on February 12, 2023. The latter was parked at Halifax between January 7 and February 12.

It will be deployed on the following routes starting on February 13:

• Cancún (4x weekly),
• Cayo Coco (weekly),
• Fort Lauderdale International (weekly),
• Holguin (weekly),
• Montego Bay (weekly),
• Orlando International (weekly),
• Puerto Plata (weekly),
• Punta Cana (4x weekly),
• Santa Clara de Cuba (weekly), and
• Varadero...