Jet to lease six short-haul ATRs from Ireland firm

New Delhi: Jet Airways has decided to lease six short-haul ATR jets from Ireland-based Investec International. The airline will replace the same number of jets of Canadian Regional Jets (CRJ) operated by its wholly-owned subsidiary JetLite by the new aircraft. “The new aircraft will join the JetLite fleet in July-October this year. The jets would be taken on dry lease for five to six years,” a Jet Airways official said.
The aircraft acquisition committee in the civil aviation ministry would take up the proposal of Jet Airways on Tuesday.
JetLite operates a fleet of 24 aircraft, which includes 18 Boeing 737 series and 6 Canadian Regional Jets 200 series. The airline flies to 28 cities in the domestic markets besides two international destinations (Kathmandu and Colombo) operating over 110 flights a day. Jet Airways maintains a fleet of 89 aircraft which includes Boeing, Airbus and ATR aircraft. The two airlines together command more than one-fourth of the highly-competitive domestic aviation market.
22/06/10 Nirbhay Kumar/Financial Express

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