AirBlue to Get ATR 72-600 Aircraft on Wet Lease

[Abbas Ali]

Quick Duck ATR 72-600 registration OM-AQD departed from Karachi today at 12:25 PM.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/om-aqd

Probably ferry flight to Bratislava Airport (Slovakia) via Zvartnots International Airport (Armenia).

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

OM-AQD flying from Karachi has landed at Zvartnots International Airport (Armenia).

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/om-aqd

The ATR completed flight from Karachi to Zvartnots International Airport in six hours & twenty-nine minutes.

Abbas

[Rana]

Bravo =D> good Planning and Management

[Abbas Ali]

Quick Duck ATR 72-600 registration OM-AQD flown to Bratislava Airport (Slovakia) from Zvartnots International Airport (Armenia).

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/om-aqd

The ATR completed flight from Zvartnots International Airport to Bratislava Airport in five hours and twenty minutes.

The ferry flight from Karachi to Bratislava Airport (Slovakia) via Zvartnots International Airport (Armenia) was completed in twelve hours & fifty-eight minutes including one hour & nine minutes technical/refueling stop at Zvartnots International Airport.

Abbas

[747-300]

Kudos for Airblue

[raihans]

whats the reason behind such short lease term?

[bluesky]

Miscommitment from airblue on agreement clause became the reason for this world's shortes lease AIRBLUE was planning to start flights to KBL and the lessor crew informed the same at the base.

[raihans]

thank you bluesky for the info

[adamalikhan]

Miscommitment from airblue on agreement clause became the reason for this world's shortes lease AIRBLUE was planning to start flights to KBL and the lessor crew informed the same at the base.

So Airblue was planning to use the aircraft to KBL and this route is not allowed in the agreement with the lessor?

[Vaqar Khan]

Quick Duck Airlines (Bratislava) has, for the time being, temporarily suspended operations after its sole aircraft, an ATR72-600 OM-AQD (cn 1162), returned to Bratislava last week. The turboprop is dry-leased from Singapore-based lessor, Avation. The carrier could not be reached for comment.

The Transport Authority of Slovakia has confirmed to ch-aviation that while Quick Duck has already received an air operator certificate, it lacks an air services license from the Ministry of Transport that has yet to be issued.

Suspicions about the Slovak start-up's future first arose last week when Pakistan's AirBlue (PA, Karachi Int'l) announced it had terminated its lease just 10 days after it began, likely because of the carrier's licensing issues.

Founded roughly 9 months ago, Quick Duck was backed by local Slovak investors to the tune of EUR5million (USD6.02million) with a workforce of DanubeWings (V5, Bratislava) employees. It had planned to take delivery of a second ATR later this year.

Source: http://ch-aviation.com/portal/news/3470 ... operations

[Abbas Ali]

Probably airblue will try to get another ATR or the same ATR of Quick Duck after issues related to that aircraft are resolved.

airblue route planners must have done their homework before starting turboprop service and I think they will try to restart the service.

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Today Quick Duck returned ATR 72-600 registration OM-AQD to lessor Avation PLC - AVAP (avation.net).

Aircraft ferried from Bratislava Airport (Slovakia) to Billund Airport (Denmark).

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/om-aqd

Abbas