Avia Solutions Group orders up to 80 Boeing 737 MAX jets

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — Avia Solutions Group, the world’s largest ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance) provider, on Tuesday announced its first order with Boeing for 40 737-8s, with the potential to order 40 more later.
Avia Solutions Group has 11 air operator certificates (AOC) including Avion Express, SmartLynx, KlasJet, AirExplore, BBN, Ascend Airways and Skytrans among others. These AOCs operate year round in more than 60 countries on behalf of various scheduled airlines and tour operators, the announcement said.
“As the world’s largest ACMI provider, carrying over 35 million passengers annually for our clients, we have committed to a strategic approach of expanding our capacity to meet our customers’ seasonal needs, and our first order with Boeing is a key pillar of this,” said Gediminas Ziemelis, chairman of Avia Solutions Group.
“ACMI providers such as Avia Solutions Group offer important, flexible capacity to meet the dynamic demand in our industry, and we are honored Avia has selected Boeing airplanes to help meet that demand from its customers,” said Brad McMullen, Boeing senior vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing.
The 737-8 can seat between 162 and 210 passengers, depending on configuration, and has a range of up to 3,500 nautical miles (6,480 km), according to Boeing. ■