Looks like Titan Airways Airbus A320, G-POWM is on lease to Jet2 operating out of LBA this weekend along side it's summer leased Boeing 752, G-POWH and Airbus A321, G-POWN at MAN.
The Primera Air Scandinavia needs to be added to the above and they are all short summer lease deals. Short leases that are logical in view of the new B738NGs that begin to arrive in September 2016.
It’s curious that JET2 has moved away from their well established plan of buying or leasing second hand aircraft, when the second hand market in B737NGs is very favourable to them at this time, as there are about 40 second hand B738s worldwide looking for a home. This would indicate that purchases or even leases of these aircraft should be at favourable prices and rates.
Another curiosity is that any new order of aircraft would normaly be served at the end of the delivery queue, meaning that first orders come first, so that JET2’s “new” order shouldn’t be served until all other aircraft previously ordered are delivered. The early delivery of JET2’s order tends to indicate that JET2 have accepted a deal from Boeing to take up the slack on cancelled orders of the B737NG and that there has been a very favourable reduction on the list price of the aircraft. The advantage to Boeing is that they can maintain the production line intact and running without interruption until they are ready to switch over to the production of the B737MAX.
Just imagination, but considering the favourable market in second hand B737NGs, the deal must have been better than the one pulled off by Ryanair years’ ago.