Jet2 (LS, Leeds/Bradford) will wet-lease two instead of just one B737-800 from Czech partner Travel Service Airlines (QS, Prague) next summer season with one aircraft each based at East Midlands and Leeds/Bradford. Jet2 has decided to extend its contract with Travel Service to a second aircraft for the summer season while instead giving up plans to wet-lease an A320-200 from Hamburg Airways (HK, Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel) for its East Midlands operations.

Hamburg Airways (HK, Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel) will wet-lease one of its two A320-200s to Jet2 (LS, Leeds/Bradford) for the upcoming summer season. The aircraft will be based at Jet2's East Midlands base for several months. Jet2 will also use a Travel Service Airlines (QS, Prague) B737-800 that will be operating from Leeds/Bradford and a Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) B757-200 that will be operating from Manchester Int'l next summer.

XL Airways Germany (X4, Frankfurt Int'l) has announced that it has temporarily suspended operations for the winter season as of December 14 with two of its five B737-800s currently stored at Cologne/Bonn and Dusseldorf Int'l and the other three aircraft on a winter lease with Canjet Airlines (C6, Halifax). It is yet unclear if it plans to resume operations in summer with its own air operator certificate that has also been temporarily suspended at the carrier’s request or if it will further extend its cooperation with its partner Hamburg Airways (HK, Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel) that will also fulfill the remaining charter contracts for XL Airways Germany this winter.

Hamburg Airways (HK, Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel) and XL Airways Germany (X4, Frankfurt Int'l) have agreed to cooperate in the German charter market and want to jointly optimize their procurement and sales processes. Hamburg Airways currently operates three A319-100s and two A320-200s while XL operates five B737-800s.

Germania (ST, Berlin Tegel) and Hamburg Airways (HK, Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel) have both not yet received approval by Turkish government authorities for planned charter flights on behalf of German tour operator Öger Tours to Gazipasa. The new airport is approximately 150km east of Antalya and serves several tourism destinations including Alanya better than Antalya. Due its short runway and location close to several mountains, crews require special training and the Turkish authorities need to approve each operator prior to operations to the airport. Other carriers planning to serve Gazipasa this summer include Air Finland (OF, Helsinki Vantaa), SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) and Transavia Airlines (HV, Amsterdam).