Airline Fleet News – 8th May 2025 (Updated 12th May)

New Deliveries

Frontier Airlines (FFT)  A321NX  N668FR (12486)  BFM to TPA

News

Air New Zealand (ANZ) A321NX ZK-NNH (12513) made its first flight at Hamburg (XFW) as D-AYAJ.

Air Finance Germany (AFG) ferried A320 RP-C3264 (4852) from Hyderabad (HYD) to Dubai (DWC) prior to lease to Buraq Air (BRQ).

AirTanker (TOW) ferried A330-2 G-VYGL (1555) from Prestwick (PIK) to Manchester (MAN) prior to wet-lease to Jet2 (EXS).

Alliance Airlines (UTY) ferried ERJ-190 N238JB (19000039) from storage at San Jose (SJO) to San Diego (SDM).

ASL Airlines Belgium (TAY) re-registered B737-8F OO-IWD (35550 / 2227) ex OE-IWD.

Boeing (BOE) ferried B737 MAX 8’s N57001 (61712 / 7624) from Moses Lake (MWH) to Victorville (VCV) for painting for Air India Express (AXB) and 9V-MBQ (44265 / 9145) from Portland (PDX) to Boeing Field (BFI) after painting for Singapore Airlines (SIN).

Delta Air Lines (DAL) ferried B757-2 N702TW (28162 / 732) from Atlanta (ATL) to Blytheville (BYH) for part-out.

Getjet Airlines (GJT) ferried A320 LY-NOW (4328) from Barcelona (BCN) to Copenhagen (CPH) after wet-lease to Vueling (VLG), prior to wet-lease to Atlantic Airways (FLI) and B737-8 LY-UNO (33801 / 1504) from Barcelona (BCN) to Vilnius (VNO) after wet-lease to Vueling (VLG).

ICBC Financial Leasing ferried B737-8 VP-CTK (37765 / 3986) from Istanbul (ISL) to Kaunas (KUN).

IndiGo (IGO) ferried A320’s YL-LDW (3215) from Delhi (DEL) to Karlovy Vary (KLV) and YL-LDX (3221) from Delhi (DEL) to Riga (RIX) after wet-lease from SmartLynx (ART).

Jet2 (EXS) A321NX G-HLYL (12553) made its first flight at Hamburg (XFW) as D-AZYX.

Neos (NOS) B737 MAX 8 EI-RZH (66468 / 9151) made its first flight at Renton (RNT) and ferried to Moses Lake (MWH).

Renegade Air has taken delivery of ATR 42-500 5Y-RNV (637) on lease from Abelo, ex-Air Corsica (CCM) F-HAIB and ferried from storage at Monchengladbach (MGL) to Heraklion (HER) prior to entering service.

SmartLynx Malta (LYX) ferried A321-2F 9H-CGX (2290) from storage at Riga (RIX) to Castellon (CDT).

ULS Airlines Cargo (KZU) has taken delivery of A330-3F TC-GOL (356) on lease from Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), ex-San Marino Executive Aviation (SMF) T7-SERES and ferried from storage at Istanbul (ISL) to Istanbul (ISL) prior to entering service.

UMB Bank ferried A321-2F OE-LAX (3749) from Ostrava (OSR) to Madrid (MAD) prior to delivery to Swiftair (SWT) as EC-OPB.

United Airlines (UAL) B737 MAX 8 N17373 (68814 / 9160) made its first flight at Renton (RNT) and ferried to Boeing Field (BFI).

Voyageur Airways (VAL) ferried CRJ-200 C-GIXT (7393) from Keflavik (KEF) to North Bay (YYB) after operations for the United Nations (UNO).

WestJet (WJA) has taken delivery of B737-8 C-FPRP (39959 / 5414) on lease from SMBC Aviation Capital, ex-Sunwing Airlines (SWG).

Maintenance

Air India (AIC) ferried B777-3 VT-ALR (36316 / 814) from Sabiha Gokcen (SAW) to Delhi (DEL).

Corendon Airlines Europe (CXI) ferried B737-8 9H-TJA (34409 / 1924) from Istanbul (ISL) to Antalya (AYT).

easyJet (EZY) ferried A320 G-EZWK (5688) from Gatwick (LGW) to Maastricht (MST).

Iberia (IBE) ferried A330-2 EC-ODA (814) from Barcelona (BCN) to Amman (AMM).

+ Jazeera Airways (JZR) ferried A320N 9K-CBH (10488) from Kuwait City (KWI) to Istanbul (ISL).

Lufthansa (DLH) ferried B747-8 D-ABYO (37841 / 1498) from Frankfurt (FRA) to Hahn (HHN).

Qantas (QFA) ferried A380 VH-OQH (050) from Dresden (DRS) to Heathrow (LHR).

Valuejet (FVJ) ferried CRJ-900 5N-BXS (15113) from Ljubljana (LJU) to Lagos (LOS).