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Air aviation news – Oman Air<\/a>\u00a0(WY,\u00a0Muscat<\/a>) has leased a part of its\u00a0Dubai International<\/a>\u00a0slot portfolio to Sri Lanka’s\u00a0FitsAir<\/a>\u00a0(8D,\u00a0Colombo International<\/a>) and Bangladesh’s\u00a0US-Bangla Airlines<\/a>\u00a0(BS,\u00a0Dhaka<\/a>) for the Summer 2023 season.<\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan carrier will be able to operate daily flights from\u00a0Colombo International<\/a>\u00a0to Dubai using a 180-seat\u00a0A320-200<\/a>\u00a0aircraft between March 26 and October 28, 2023. The privately-owned carrier currently operates three A320ceo jets and one\u00a0ATR72-200(QC)<\/a>\u00a0on scheduled services from Colombo to\u00a0Mal\u00e9<\/a>, Dubai, and\u00a0Chennai<\/a>. It confirmed to ch-aviation that it was planning to use the slots leased from Oman Air to increase the frequency of its services to Dubai.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, US-Bangla Airlines has leased 3x weekly slots for services from\u00a0Dhaka<\/a>, operated using a 164-seat\u00a0B737-800<\/a>. The Bangladeshi airline currently connects Dhaka with Dubai 10x weekly.<\/p>\n

Both slot leases are for babysitting, which indicates that Oman Air had no plans to use them in the coming summer season. By leasing them to other airlines, it…<\/p>\n

Editorial Comment: The original article erroneously stated that the lease pertained to London Heathrow slots. It is now corrected, and updated with the US-Bangla Airlines lease. – 21.03.2023 – 12:12 UTC<\/p>\n

source: https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/portal\/news\/132951-sri-lankas-fitsair-studying-first-widebody-acquisition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air aviation news – Oman Air\u00a0(WY,\u00a0Muscat) has leased a part of its\u00a0Dubai International\u00a0slot portfolio to Sri Lanka’s\u00a0FitsAir\u00a0(8D,\u00a0Colombo International) and Bangladesh’s\u00a0US-Bangla Airlines\u00a0(BS,\u00a0Dhaka) for the Summer 2023 season. The Sri Lankan carrier will be able to operate daily flights from\u00a0Colombo International\u00a0to Dubai using a 180-seat\u00a0A320-200\u00a0aircraft between March 26 and October 28, 2023. 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