World Atlantic Airways plans A320-fleet

Aviation news site CH-Aviation has conducted an interview with the COO of World Atlantic Airways. In it, the airline has said it plans to transition to a fleet of Airbus A320s.

Over the last years, World Atlantic has already built experience with A320-operations by wet-leasing one from Fly2Sky. The airline hopes to welcome its first own two Airbuses before the end of the year.

World Atlantic Airways was originally launched as Caribbean Sun Airlines at Fort Lauderdale (FL) in 2002. It launched operations with a single DHC-8-100 in January 2003. In January 2007, it ceased operations. After a failed restart attempt, the company was acquired in 2010 and relaunched and rebranded as World Atlantic Airways.

Today, the airline operates charter and ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) flights with a fleet of five McDonnell-Douglas MD-83s. As the fleet is an average of 33 years old, and becoming more difficult to maintain, it's time to replace them.

Photo by Anton Homma.