Avion Express

Avion Express UAB
IATA code :	X9
ICAO code :	NVD
Call sign :	NORDVIND
Founding:	2005
Seat:	Vilnius , Lithuania
Management:	Darius Kajokas
Fleet size:	13
Aims:	international
Website:	avionexpress.aero

Avion Express is a Lithuanian charter airline based in Vilnius and based at Vilnius Airport , which specializes primarily in ACMI rentals and is, through Eyjafjoll SAS, a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group .

history

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founding

Avion Express was founded in 2005 as Nordic Solutions Air Services . At that time, the airline operated four Saab 340 cargo and passenger aircraft.

In 2008 the company was given the current name Avion Express . Two years later, in 2010, Avion Express was taken over by the French investment company Eyjafjoll SAS , which was founded by Avion Capital Partners from Switzerland together with other investors. The new owners decided at this point to work out a plan to move the operations of the company to the ACMI area. ACMI refers to an aircraft leasing agreement between two airlines under which one airline (the lessor) provides another airline (the lessee) with an aircraft, a crew, the necessary maintenance and insurance for the aircraft; the lessee pays for the hours worked and also assumes the direct operating costs, including but not limited to: fuel, airport charges and overflight charges, as well as all other duties, taxes, etc. As part of the first step of this plan, Airbus A320 aircraft were added to the fleet the Avion Express.

Later development

In 2011 Avion Express then presented the first Airbus A320 with the aircraft registration LY-VEX as a passenger aircraft in its own fleet. The LY-VEX was the first Airbus aircraft registered in Lithuania at the time. Two more Airbus A320s were added to the fleet in December.

A year later, two Airbus A320 aircraft were leased to the Icelandic airline WOW air .

In 2013 Avion Express successfully passed the IOSA Operational Safety Audit and thus received an IATA registration. The last Saab 340 freighter was taken out of service in March 2013.

Until the summer of 2014, the airline operated a fleet of 9 Airbus A320s and 2 Airbus A319s. In the same year Avion Express founded the subsidiary Dominican Wings , a low-cost airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Airbus A320-200 operated by Avion Express for Thomas Cook at Düsseldorf Airport, late summer 2018

In the summer of 2017, Avion Express introduced Airbus A321 aircraft to the company's fleet. A total of 3 aircraft of this type were commissioned by Thomas Cook Airlines and Condor before Avion Express announced in June of the same year that it had sold its 65% stake in Dominican Wings to the company's president, Victor Pacheco.

In 2018, Avion Express exceeded the amount of 250 block hours per day in terms of operation and thus achieved the highest in-house daily result to date; Avion Express flew a total of 52,500 block hours this year, which is also the company's own record to date and an increase of 27% compared to 2017.

Customers

In recent years Avion Express has operated for a variety of airlines including Thomas Cook Group Airlines , SunExpress , Onur Air , Norwegian Air Shuttle , LOT Polish Airlines and easyJet .

fleet

Airbus A320-200 operated by Avion Express for SunExpress at Düsseldorf Airport, summer 2018

Airbus A321-200 of the Avion Express

As of June 2020, the Avion Express fleet consists of 13 aircraft with an average age of 17.2 years:

Aircraft type	number	Remarks	Seats	Average age
Airbus A320-200	6th	two inactive, one operated for the United Nations (UN)	180	18.2 years
Airbus A321-200	7th		220	16.4 years
total	13			17.2 years

Partnerships

In August 2017, Avion Express signed a partnership agreement with the Lithuanian Aviation Academy (A. Gustaitis Aviation Institute at VGTU). The main focus of the partnership is to give the students of the "Airplane Pilot" course and the technical study programs the opportunity to learn more about aviation and the company, to gain experience during internships and to work for the airline after graduation.

Since autumn 2017, Avion Express has also been working with BAA Training , one of the aviation training centers in Northern Europe, on a cadet program for pilots with little or no flight experience. In this partnership, BAA Training trains pilots to fill the vacancies for the Avion Express fleet.

Web links

Commons : Avion Express  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Avion Express website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Avion Express. In: commsoft.co.uk. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (English). 
2. ↑ http://www.acp.aero/:+ Avion Capital Partners - News - Avion Express launches Airbus 320 Passenger Operation. . Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2018. 
3. ↑ Wow Air leases two Airbus A320s from Avion Express to launch operations in June . March 13, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
4. ↑ Avion Express retires its third and final Saab 340 (F) freighter (en-US) . In: ch-aviation . Retrieved May 13, 2018. 
5. ↑ UBM (UK) Ltd. 2018: Dominican Wings Receives First Airbus . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
6. ↑ Airline for Airline: Avion Express . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
7. ↑ Thomas Cook Airlines UK to lease in Lithuanian A321 metal . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
8. ^ Avion Express sells its shares in Dominican Wings . June 30, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
9. ^ Dominican Wings relaunched as a ULCC . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
10. ↑ Airline for Airline: Avion Express . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
11. ↑ Airline for Airline: Avion Express . Retrieved January 16, 2019.
12. ^ Avion Express Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. June 25, 2020, accessed on June 25, 2020 . 
13. ↑ e-solution: VGTU ITSC & Gaumina: Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas - VGTU . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
14. ↑ BAA Training collaborates with Avion Express on cadet programs . October 3, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
15. ↑ Join Avion Express Cadet Programs . November 16, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2018.