Air aviation news – Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) is seeking to wet-lease widebody aircraft for the 2024 Hajj season. The airline issued a procurement notice on October 11, 2023, inviting eligible parties to bid for the business.
Procurement notice number EPROC-IBS/2023/10/SO/0293 seeks either B777, A330, or B747 aircraft on an ACMI/damp-lease basis (with cabin crew provided by Garuda Indonesia) between May 13 and July 21, 2024. The aircraft will fly roundtrip between Indonesia and Madinah and Jeddah. The notice states a preference for planes manufactured not before 2001 and the range to complete with sectors without any technical stops.
Indonesia is home to an estimated 231 million Muslims, or around 87% of the country’s population, making it the world’s biggest Muslim nation. During the Hajj pilgrimage season, multiple airlines, including majority state-owned Garuda Indonesia, do a brisk business flying pilgrims between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Ahead of the 2023 season, ch-aviation reported that Garuda would dedicate 14 aircraft to Hajj flights, including seven of their own and seven wet-leased planes.
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Air India takes first leased A320neo from late 3Q22 order
16.10.2023 – 01:43 UTCAir India (AI, Mumbai International) has taken delivery of the first of a 21-strong batch of leased A320-200Ns and expects the remainder to arrive by August 2024, according to CEO Campbell Wilson. The airline has also taken delivery of its second A350-900.
In September 2022, Air India announced that it would lease the twenty-one A321-200Ns and four A321-200NX to address a “capacity and connectivity need.” At the time, Wilson did not disclose the identity of the lessors. However, the first A320-200N, VT-RTF (msn 11705), which ferried into Delhi from Toulouse Blagnac on October 11, comes from CALC. The four A321-200NX – VT-RTB (msn 11113), VT-RTC (msn 11156), VT-RTD (msn 11183), and VT-RTE (msn 11260), respectively, have already been delivered and were sourced from AerCap.
“This week saw the arrival of yet another aircraft – the first of 21 A320Ns,” Wilson told Air India employees in an internal email this week and reported in The Business Standard. “The remaining twenty A320neo (are) progressively arriving between now and August 2024.”…
