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06.07.2022 - 09:59 UTCWizz Air (W6, Budapest) has wet-leased a B737-800 from Ukraine's SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) to supplement its Sofia base operations.
UR-SQO (msn 40880) was ferried from Varna to Sofia on June 29, 2022, and started operating on behalf of the Hungarian LCC the day after. Wizz Air has not filed schedules for the wet-leased aircraft and did not respond to a query about the duration of the ACMI contract. ch-aviation understands that the contract has been signed for a few months and can be extended.
The 9.6-year-old Boeing jet, one of SkyUp's nine B737-800s, had been stored between February 18 and June 22 at Belgrade airport. It was then reactivated to operate charter flights under SkyUp's own code before the commencement of the ACMI deal with Wizz Air.
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