Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
From whom are TUI going to source 737 Max replacements ? There aren't that many ACMI 150+ seat aircraft floating around from airlines that would be considered reliable enough for this. Leasing a worn out 30 year old A320 from a startup in a country in Europe that is sourcing aircraft from a boneyard and crewed with super-cheap labour is probably not ideal, unless TUI are prepared to deal with the bad
PR when it (most likely) all goes wrong in July (probably while French ATC are on strike, just to make thing more interesting !)
Indeed, ACMI Leasing from less well known and perhaps less salubrious airlines is well underway with both TUI and TCK for many years
Sunwing Smartwings Smartlynx etc etc
There could be some aircraft out there from failed airlines ie: WOW Cobalt Primera Small Planet and Germania.
TUI, Jet2, Icelandic and TCK have all recently retired 757's but it seems their fates are either freighter conversations or the scrap-man.
TUI are using more 3rd party airlines from outstations such as Norwegian Air Europa Freebird Albastar and Volotea.
Titan AW are likely to have their fleet already booked out with BA and Jet2,
plus they have their own IT work all of which was in situ before the MAX debacle
Other ACMI airlines include EuroAtlantic Air Belgium Evelop Wamos HiFly and Privilege Style