I’ve never heard of British airlines having to wet lease or damp lease aircraft over the winter. All TUIs 787s and 767s just do long haul over the winter and 4 of their 737s go to Canada to reduce their surplus. Given how quiet Jet2 traditionally are in the winter, I can’t figure out why they have such a winter demand for extra capacity - I would have thought they would have plenty of spare aircraft of their own over the winter to take up the slack left by Thomas cook.
Lots of errors in that post.
6 737’s going to Canada not 4. uk reg 767s staying on short haul. Plus the small matter of 9 max aircraft down and the 757s starting to go off lease. I’d be very surprised not to see a few leased in frames for the winter. Especially when ski season kicks off in mid to late December.