I see, on SKyliner, that a brand new A319 has been delivered to IB, for onward lease to EI.
Airbus A319 -111 4768 EC-LNL Iberia delivery 29jul11 XFW-MAD, all white, primer prior lease to Aer Lingus ex D-AVYJ
I am wondering what the rationale is of not putting the 319s into service until next year; I could understand if it were an older aircraft, but at the end of the day, this is a brand new $40-50m machine, just lying on the ground for a few months; hope it's not EI paying the lease costs on this! It's not as if there is a shortage of routes on which a smaller capacity acft would be welcome.
Are the other two A319s (there being one in DUB already, in full colours) also new build aircraft?