CItyJet will showcase its new Sukhoi SuperJet at the world's biggest airshow in Farnborough next month as both the airline and the manufacturer aim to lure customers for the aircraft.
Dublin-based CiyJet is the first European customer using the SuperJet, and hopes the aircraft will help it secure more wet lease business.
CityJet is hoping to secure so-called wet lease customers, where CityJet would operate flights on their behalf using the aircraft. It already has a substantial wet lease business through its Blue 1 subsidiary in Scandinavia.
CityJet boss Pat Byrne told the Irish Independent that he hopes to have at least one wet lease customer signed for the SuperJet by the end of the year.
The airline will take delivery of another SuperJet next week, and another in October, with more joining its fleet next year.
http://www.independent.ie/business/cityjet-to-showcase-superjet-at-air-show-34805109.html
Dublin-based CiyJet is the first European customer using the SuperJet, and hopes the aircraft will help it secure more wet lease business.
CityJet is hoping to secure so-called wet lease customers, where CityJet would operate flights on their behalf using the aircraft. It already has a substantial wet lease business through its Blue 1 subsidiary in Scandinavia.
CityJet boss Pat Byrne told the Irish Independent that he hopes to have at least one wet lease customer signed for the SuperJet by the end of the year.
The airline will take delivery of another SuperJet next week, and another in October, with more joining its fleet next year.
http://www.independent.ie/business/cityjet-to-showcase-superjet-at-air-show-34805109.html