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Lufthansa will wet-lease CRJ1000s from Irish carrier CityJet over the summer season, deploying the aircraft on the majority of its Ljubljana and Zagreb flights out of Frankfurt. The jets, which will be operated by CityJet crew, will enter into service on the Ljubljana and Zagreb routes on March 31. Throughout the duration of the 2024 summer season, which begins on March 31 and ends on October 27, Lufthansa will deploy the CityJet aircraft on a total of 420 rotations from Frankfurt to Ljubljana or around 66% of all its operations on the route, as well as on all its flights from the German city to the Croatian capital, although last minute equipment swaps remain possible. Lufthansa is wet-leasing a total of five CityJet CRJ1000 aircraft, which have the capacity to seat 100 passengers. All of them will be stationed in Frankfurt. The aircraft have not been scheduled on any other of Lufthansa’s routes to the former Yugoslavia. CityJet currently has four CRJ1000s in its fleet, all of which are between eleven and thirteen years old. The Irish carrier is a capacity provider for SAS Scandinavian Airlines, operating eighteen CRJ900s on behalf of the carrier, while it also wet-leases equipment to Brussels Airlines. A wet-lease is a leasing arrangement whereby the lessor provides an aircraft, complete crew, maintenance and insurance to another airline. Lufthansa has been forced to cut some 100 weekly flights from its schedule this summer as 64 aircraft in the Lufthansa Group are affected by engine issues by the Pratt & Whitney manufacturer on its Airbus fleet. Network reductions on its original plan have been made, to varying degrees, on select services to cities in the former Yugoslavia. Elsewhere, the German carrier will completely suspend operations from Frankfurt to Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Friedrichshafen, Linz, and Innsbruck, as well as from Munich to Leipzig. Lufthansa will have a total of 4.006 flights departing Frankfurt and Munich to cities in the former Yugoslavia this summer season, up 1.6% on the same period last year.
EX-YU Aviation NewsBy: EX-YU Aviationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]
Title: CityJet to run most Lufthansa Frankfurt flights to Ljubljana, Zagreb
Sourced From: www.exyuaviation.com/2024/02/cityjet-to-run-most-lufthansa-frankfurt.html
Published Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000
