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Ryanair Holdings will place some of its incoming B737-8-200s with the group's Polish unit, currently known as Ryanair Sun (RR, Warsaw Modlin) but in the process of rebranding as Buzz (RR, Warsaw Modlin).

According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, the first three MAX 8-200s for the Polish airline will be SP-RZA (msn 62314), SP-RZB (msn 62313), and SP-RZC (msn 62315). According to photos available online, the aircraft have already been painted into the Buzz livery and remain in storage at Renton airport.

However, the delivery timeline remains uncertain. While the B737 MAX Family, in general, has yet to be recertified following the grounding in mid-March 2019, the -200 variant has not yet been certified at all by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The derivative of the MAX 8 has a higher capacity and an additional exit door. According to The Air Current, a "design issue" separate from the MCAS-related woes is likely to delay the certification of the -200 even more.

Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int'l) initially...

Lauda (OE, Vienna) will open a base in the Croatian city of Zadar in April next year, the airline's fifth base overall and allowing it to add a further 11 new routes to its existing network of 20 city pairs.

An airport press release said the three aircraft base is expected to carry a total of 672,000 passengers annually.

The 11 new city pairs which will start from the base next summer are:

• Aarhus (2x weekly);
• Bremen Hans Koschnick (3x weekly);
• Cork (2x weekly);
• Paris Beauvais (2x weekly);
• Gdansk (3x weekly);
• Kaunas (2x weekly);
• Liverpool (2x weekly);
• Maastricht (2x weekly);
• Riga (2x weekly);
• Toulouse Blagnac (2x weekly);
• Wroclaw (2x weekly).

Eddie Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int'l), which owns Lauda said: “We are delighted to be opening our base in Zadar next summer, as part of our efforts to contribute to the growth of traffic, tourism and...