Greece’s Aegean Airlines defers A320neo Family deliveries

Aegean Airlines (A3, Athens Int’l) has announced in its quarterly earnings release that it will defer deliveries of eleven A320neo Family narrowbodies, originally due in 2021-22, to 2023-2025. The Greek privately-owned airline said in an earnings release that it would maintain its commitment with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for a total of forty-six A320neo Family jets. It would also not defer the impending deliveries of four new A321-200Ns due by April 2021. The first of the quartet, SX-NAA (msn 9553) has been delivered from Hamburg Finkenwerder to Athens on October 1, Radarbox ADS-B data shows. According to the new plan, Aegean Airlines plans to take a total of fifteen A320neo Family aircraft through 2022 (including five A320-200Ns already delivered), as opposed to 26 units under the original schedule. The deferrals will reduce Aegean’s capital expenditures through the end of 2021 by USD91 million. The airline also said that it had the “flexibility or possibility for departure or expiring leases” through the end of 2022 for a total of twenty-six A320ceo Family aircraft (out of its fleet of one A319-100, thirty-five A320-200s, and ten A321-200) and two out of twelve turboprops operated by its subsidiary Olympic Air. The regional airline operates two ATR42-600s, two Dash 8-100s, and eight DHC-8-Q400s, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows.