Braathens International Airways (TT, Stockholm Bromma) will wet-lease an A320 from Fly2Sky (F6, Sofia) this summer to operate flights from Luleå Airport in Sweden to various destinations throughout Europe, the Bulgarian ACMI/charter specialist revealed in a statement on May 15.
Fly2Sky said that its new partnership with the Swedish carrier’s parent company, BRA - Braathens Regional Airlines (Stockholm Bromma), had been forged in cooperation with the UK-based aircraft charter broker Smart Aviation.
Starting in May and running until the end of October, Fly2Sky will provide A320-200 LZ-FSA (msn 4247) for the wet-lease operation, in a deal which the Bulgarian carrier said would “expand its route network and provide its customers with access to more destinations in Europe.” This correlates with what it has previously said is an expansion push into European markets.
LZ-FSA was ferried from Riga, where airBaltic (BT, Riga) had been wet-leasing it to support its operations during April and the first half of May, to Sofia on May 14, ch-aviation analysis of Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. It was then ferried to Trondheim early the following morning in time to operate a flight for BRA from the Norwegian city to Larnaca before flying from there to Billund.
BRA did not respond to a request for comment.
BRA - Braathens Regional Airways’ fleet currently consists of fourteen ATR72-600s, while newly established affiliate Braathens International Airways operates one A319-100 and wet-leases in one A330-200 from Maleth-Aero (DB, Malta International). Fly2Sky has four A320-200s including LZ-FSA as well as one A321-200, the ch-aviation fleets module reveals.
