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Re: Airline fleet changes

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Airplaneguy9 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:49 am Airlink have leased an E135 V5-ANH from FlyNamibia
Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.
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JustFlying wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:39 pm Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.
Huh, guess Planespotters was wrong? I remember Airlink saying they were going to lease aircraft to fill capacity, though.
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Airplaneguy9 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:20 pm
JustFlying wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:39 pm Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.
Huh, guess Planespotters was wrong? I remember Airlink saying they were going to lease aircraft to fill capacity, though.

That aircraft and it’s crew are FlyNamibia, they’re operating on behalf of Airlink. Just like Airlink did for SAA a few years ago.

No Airlink crew are flying V5 machines nor getting Nam validations.
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JustFlying wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:39 pm
Airplaneguy9 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:49 am Airlink have leased an E135 V5-ANH from FlyNamibia
Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.

So it’s a wet lease then
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JustFlying wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:39 pm
Airplaneguy9 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:49 am Airlink have leased an E135 V5-ANH from FlyNamibia
Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.
Called a wet lease 👍
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FoxTROT wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 2:56 pm A third E175 for Airlink has been delivered to JNB: https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/ ... ft/elzmv6/
Apparently a fourth now as well.
https://www.flyairlink.com/en/za/falko- ... to-airlink

Guess whatever issues there was is sorted and they will then be operational soon?
In article saying that now operating 170 and 175...not giving the idea that these are replacing the 170s?
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trees wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:14 am
JustFlying wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:39 pm
Airplaneguy9 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:49 am Airlink have leased an E135 V5-ANH from FlyNamibia
Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.
Called a wet lease 👍
So that means SAA used to wet lease SA express and SA Airlink. Got it.
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JustFlying wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:54 pm
trees wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:14 am
JustFlying wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:39 pm

Negative, it is branded in Airlink livery and operated by the FlyNamibia crew, as per the franchise agreement.
Called a wet lease 👍
So that means SAA used to wet lease SA express and SA Airlink. Got it.
The difference here is you cannot operate a foreign (in this case V5) aircraft on domestic routes unless you have some form of lease agreement in place. Otherwise doing so would be illegal.

This wouldn’t apply to SAA/SAX because both operations were local.
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As per this video, ZS-FGD is now in the new livery.

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ZS-ZWG now in Safair colors (From BA) and ready for post heavy maintenance test flights in Ecuador



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Tracking ZS-ZWG flights as N202TS in Ecuador
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ZS--ZWG is now well on her way home and currently in Recife Brazil

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ZWG landed in Johannesburg just after 7pm last night :D
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Double post, but Airlink has a new E190 ZS-YZF
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Airplaneguy9 wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 12:40 pm Double post, but Airlink has a new E190 ZS-YZF
Here’s what she looks like at the moment
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