ASL Aviation Holdings firms up options for 10 B737-800BCFs

ASL Aviation Holdings has announced it has firmed up ten options for the B737-800BCF into firm orders. In total, the airline group has now ordered twenty B737-800BCFs, which they say is 15% more fuel efficient than its B737-400SFs.

So far, ASL has taken delivery of five B737-800BCFs. Two are flying with ASL Ireland (for Amazon Prime Air), one is flying with ASL France and two with ASL Belgium (but are registered in Austria). In it's press-release ASL announced that one of the fifteen remaining B737-800BCFs on order will be deployed at ASL's Thai subsidiary K-Mile, making it the first B737-800BCF in Thailand.

The ASL Aviation Holding has a total of 121 aircraft, spread across its units ASL Airlines Belgium, ASL Airlines France, ASL Airlines Hungary, ASL Airlines Ireland, ASL Airlines UK, (Fly)Safair in South Africa and K-Mile in Thailand. The fleet is made up of three ATR42Fs, thirteen ATR72(F)s, four A300-600Fs, three A330-300P2Fs, four B737-300(F)s, 57 B737-400(F)s, 24 B737-800(F)s, five B747-400Fs and three B757-200Fs. The various airlines in the holding conduct both passenger- and cargo-flights.

Photo by ASL Aviation Holdings.