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CityJet

January 01, 1970

For other uses, see CityJet (disambiguation).

CityJet is an Irish regional airline with headquarters at Dublin Airport.[1] It was founded in 1992 and has gone through a series of corporate structures. The airline was sold to Air France in 2000 and then by Air France to Intro Aviation in May 2014;[2] in March 2016 the airline was bought by founder Pat Byrne and other investors.[3] CityJet ended its own-brand scheduled services in 2018 and is now a major provider of wet leasing to European airlines.[4] As of Summer 2023, CityJet operates wet lease services on behalf of Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines.

CityJet
IATA ICAO Callsign
WX BCY CITY-IRELAND
Founded1992
Commenced operations1994
HubsCopenhagen Airport
Fleet size25
HeadquartersDublin, Ireland
Key people
  • Pat Byrne, Executive chairman
  • Hugh Rodgers, CFO
  • Eugene Quigley, COO
  • Cathal O Connell, CCO
Employees625
Websitecityjet.com

Over 450 of CityJet's 600+ staff are employed in Copenhagen in both flying and ground roles, making CityJet one of the most significant airline employers in Denmark, with further crew employed in Sweden.[5] In addition to its head office at Dublin Airport and crew planning centre in Luton, CityJet has a maintenance hangar and offices in Copenhagen Kastrup Airport.[6]

History edit

Early years edit

 
A CityJet Saab 2000 in 1998

Cityjet was founded in 1992 as Business City Direct and commenced operations in December 1993. In January 1994 it started a single route between Dublin and London City Airport under a franchise agreement with Virgin Atlantic, in which it paid fees and charges to Virgin in order to operate as Virgin Cityjet and use Virgin Atlantic's distribution channels. The airline was mainly competing with British Midland and Aer Lingus services from Dublin to London Heathrow and Ryanair services from Dublin to London Stansted. However, Cityjet held a monopoly on services to London City until Aer Lingus launched services from Dublin to London City in September 1999.[7]

In June 1995, Virgin Cityjet debuted with flights between Dublin and Brussels, competing with Sabena and Aer Lingus initially.[7]

In 1996, the airline terminated its franchise agreement with Virgin Atlantic on short notice and decided to continue operations using its own CityJet name from the end of July that year. By then, the airline flew scheduled flights from Dublin to London City, Brussels and Malaga. The decision to discontinue the Virgin Atlantic franchise came as Virgin itself entered the European short-haul market with budget carrier Virgin Express, and CityJet feared customers could confuse the low-cost carrier with its own full-service operation.[8]

Air France era edit

 
A CityJet BAe 146-200 operated on behalf of Air France in 2007

In 1999, Cityjet was at the verge of bankruptcy. Air Foyle acquired half of the shares in the airline in return for assuming the carrier's debts. Air France took another 25 percent while investing £2 million. Under the new structure, Cityjet retained its own scheduled services while also becoming Air France's principal European subcontract airline. However, Cityjet still remained a loss-making business.[9]

In early 2000, Air France took over all shares in CityJet and became its sole owner. At the time, Cityjet already operated seven out of eight of its aircraft for Air France.[10] The French national airline was allowed to outsource operations of aircraft with less than 100 seats to regional partners and subsidiaries under its contracts with Air France' labour unions; overall savings to Air France by outsourcing regional operations to the Irish subsidiary were estimated at around 40 percent.[7]

In 2006, Cityjet operated supplemented Air France's operations with flights from Paris to Dublin, Birmingham, Edinburgh, London City, Florence, Gothenburg and Zurich. Furthermore, the airline still operated between London City and Dublin. The fleet consisted of 20 aged BAe 146 aircraft. From December 2006, the airline began replacing them with 23 much younger but similar Avro RJ85s it had acquired in a $221 million deal from Mesaba Airlines.[11]

On 24 December 2007, Air France-KLM announced that it had signed an agreement for a full takeover of VLM Airlines NV from Panta Holdings,[12] and announced on 28 May 2009 that VLM Airlines would gradually start to operate under the brand name CityJet. As of 1 June 2010, the whole VLM Airlines Fokker 50 fleet wore full CityJet livery, although VLM remained the owner of its own Airline Operators Certificate, and the Fokker 50 fleet was listed on the Belgian registry.

CityJet filed a pretax loss of €51.5 million for the year to the end of March 2010. This compared to a €53.9 million loss in the year to end March 2009. Revenues fell by 8 percent from €282.4 million to €258.9 million over the same period. Passenger numbers grew, climbing by 6.5 percent to 2.1 million, while average fares dropped by 16 percent.[13] Christine Ourmières joined as new chief executive on 1 October 2010. She had previously held a number of senior posts within the Air France-KLM group. In the IATA year ending 31 March 2010, CityJet carried just over 1 million passengers on its London City network.

 
A former CityJet Sukhoi Superjet 100
 
A former CityJet Avro RJ85

In June 2012 it was announced that Air France-KLM was considering selling CityJet to support its own ailing business,[14] with a further statement in April 2013 that the winning bidder would be announced in the summer of 2013.[15]

As of October 2013 the operational agreement with Air France had been replaced by codesharing, with most routes operated under its own WX code instead of Air France's.[16] In December 2013 Air France announced it would sell CityJet, including VLM Airlines, to German investor Intro Aviation. The transfer was completed in May 2014.[2][17] CityJet subsidiary VLM Airlines was bought by its own management and cut itself loose from CityJet. However, they were to remain flying the London City to Antwerp route as an ACMI operator for CityJet until mid-2016.

On 28 June 2016, CityJet inaugurated its Sukhoi Superjet 100 revenue services with its first scheduled flight from Cork to Nantes.[18] CityJet commenced a wet lease contract with Brussels Airlines using the Superjet in March 2017.[19]

In October 2015, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) announced it would sell its Finnish subsidiary Blue1 to CityJet and that CityJet would provide wet lease services to SAS from March 2016, with CityJet placing an order for up to 14 new Bombardier CRJ900 jets, 8 firm and six options.[20][21][22] Four of the options were later confirmed. In 2016 Blue1 was dissolved and merged into its parent CityJet.[23]

In January 2017, CityJet agreed to buy Cimber, which had a fleet of 11 CRJ900s,[24] from SAS. In addition to the acquisition of Cimber, CityJet secured a long term wet lease contract with SAS and placed an order leading to a further ten CRJ900 jets to replace those operated by Cimber,[25] bringing it to a total of 22 new CRJ900 aircraft operating in total for SAS.[26]

In March 2017, CityJet stated that it planned to focus more on its wetlease business while reducing its own scheduled flights. This led to the closure of routes from London City to Nantes and Paris as well as a downgrade of frequencies on other routes. CityJet then planned to operate 80 percent of all flights on a wetlease basis.[27] On 5 April 2017, it was announced that KLM Cityhopper would wet lease two Avro RJ85s from CityJet to operate four additional Amsterdam–London City services per weekday over the Summer 2017 season, starting 15 May 2017. In late October 2017, CityJet cancelled most of its remaining routes from London City Airport, leaving Dublin as its only scheduled destination from there after operating a much larger network in previous years.[28]

In July 2018, it was announced that CityJet and Air Nostrum would merge.[29] This merger received EU approval in 2019 but was deferred during Covid before being reactivated in 2022, with completion expected in 2023.[30]

In late August 2018, CityJet announced they would cease operating scheduled services under their own brand, effective from 27 October 2018, but continue business as an ACMI leasing provider. At the end of October 2018, CityJet commenced a wet lease agreement with Aer Lingus, operating two Avro RJ85 aircraft primarily on the Dublin to London City route.[31]

In 2019, CityJet pulled all Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft from service due to insufficient operational reliability and returned them to their lessor, replacing these aircraft with CRJ900 jets on the wet lease contract with Brussels Airlines.[32]

In 2019, Cityjet partnered with KLM to create Air Antwerp, a new airline based in Antwerp International Airport. It operated daily flights to London City Airport from 9 September 2019. In May 2021 CityJet handed its 75% share of Air Antwerp over to co-owner KLM but the airline ceased operations in June 2021.[33]

In April 2020, Brussels Airlines cancelled its wetlease contract with CityJet for five aircraft in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[34] The Aer Lingus wet lease agreement also ended at this time due to market uncertainty.[35] In the same month the High Court appointed an interim examiner to CityJet.[36] CityJet exited the Examinership process in August 2020 after financial restructuring[37]

2020s edit

After a brief pause at the start of the Covid pandemic, CityJet recommenced wet lease services on behalf of Scandinavian Airlines in June 2020 and progressively built up to the operation of 18 CRJ900 for SAS by 2022.

In March 2023, CityJet took delivery of the first of five CRJ-1000 100-seat regional jets [38] to supplement its fleet of 21 CRJ900s, with the first two flying on a wet lease contract with Lufthansa.[39] A new wet lease contract with Brussels Airlines commenced in March 2023 using two CRJ900 jets.[40]

Fleet edit

Current fleet edit

 
CityJet Bombardier CRJ900 operated for Scandinavian Airlines

As of January 2024, the CityJet fleet consists of the following aircraft.[41]

CityJet Fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Notes
Bombardier CRJ900 12 — 90
8 88 Operated for Scandinavian Airlines[42]
Bombardier CRJ1000 5 — 100 4 Operated for Lufthansa
Total 25 —

Historic fleet edit

The airline has previously operated BAE146/Avro RJ85, Fokker 50, Saab 2000, and Sukhoi Superjet 100[43] aircraft.[citation needed]

Sponsorships edit

See also edit

References edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ "CityJet - Contact Us". CityJet - Providing Capacity as a Service. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Air France confirms offer from Intro Aviation for CityJet, VLM - ch-aviation.com". Ch-aviation.ch. from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. ^ ""Irish regional airline CityJet sold to private investors". Reuters. 24 March 2016. from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017."
  4. ^ "Cityjet is shifting gear from scheduled services to wet leasing". The Irish Times. 7 October 2017. from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  5. ^ "CityJet - About Us". CityJet - Providing Capacity as a Service. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Careers at CityJet". CityJet - Providing Capacity as a Service. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b c Barrett, Sean (15 May 2009). Deregulation and the Airline Business in Europe. Routledge.
  8. ^ "CityJet flies solo as Virgin brand goes". irishtimes.com. 5 July 1996.
  9. ^ "Decisions". www.managementtoday.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  10. ^ "Air France devient seul actionnaire de l'irlandais CityJet". Les Echos (in French). 15 February 2000. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  11. ^ "ERA 2006: Mesaba's loss is CityJet's gain as Avros find way across Atlantic". Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  12. ^ Message on the VLM website announcing the takeover 14 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine – access date 24 December 2007
  13. ^ "Irish Times article reporting filing of CityJet's annual accounts". irishtimes.com. from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  14. ^ volaspheric: Air France-KLM considering to sell CityJet 16 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ "Irish regional CityJet CEO impressed with bidders | Wales Air Forum". Walesairforum.wordpress.com. 11 April 2013. from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  16. ^ "Cityjet to terminate Air France franchise agreement from October - ch-aviation.com". Ch-aviation.ch. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  17. ^ "Irish-based airline CityJet finalises sale to Intro Aviation - Tourism News | Travel & Tourism Industry News | the Irish Times - Thu, May 01, 2014". The Irish Times. from the original on 1 May 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  18. ^ ch-aviation.com – CityJet begins scheduled SuperJet operations 2 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine 1 July 2016
  19. ^ "CityJet delivers Sukhoi Superjet into mainline European network operation | Aviation Week Network". aviationweek.com. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  20. ^ businesswire.com – SAS Enters into Agreements with Cityjet for Wet Lease and Sale of Blue1 16 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 1 October 2015
  21. ^ "CityJet to Fly New Aircraft For SAS". cityjet.com. from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  22. ^ Orban, André (2 October 2015). "CityJet to fly new aircraft for SAS". Aviation24.be. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  23. ^ "Blue 1 on ch-aviation". ch-aviation. from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  24. ^ Nelson, Chris (25 January 2017). "Bombardier wins CRJ900 jet order from Irish carrier CityJet". The National. from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  25. ^ Leeuwen, Marcel van (29 March 2017). "CityJet Order for four Additional Bombardier CRJ900 Aircraft for his SAS network". Aviation News. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  26. ^ "CityJet to pay up to $434m for new jets and buys Denmark's Cimber - Independent.ie". independent.ie. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  27. ^ "More Wetlease – CityJet reduces at London City Airport". aerotelegraph.com. March 2017. from the original on 1 March 2017.
  28. ^ . www.cityjet.com. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  29. ^ Hamilton, Peter. "CityJet deal with Spanish airline is 'prelude to a merger'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  30. ^ Kaminski-Morrow2023-03-05T14:13:00+00:00, David. "Air Nostrum-CityJet tie-up re-cleared by EU regulators". Flight Global. Retrieved 31 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  31. ^ "Aer Lingus and CityJet Join Forces on Dublin London City Route". www.cityjet.com. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  32. ^ "Brussels Airlines to end Cityjet Sukhoi Operation". FlyingInIreland.com. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  33. ^ Schneider, Oscar (9 August 2019). "Air Antwerp flies to London from 9 September". The Brussels Times. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  34. ^ aerotelegraph.com (German) 15 April 2020
  35. ^ "Aer Lingus cancels contract with Cityjet". 27 May 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  36. ^ O Faolain, Aodhan (17 April 2020). "Interim examiner appointed to Dublin-based airline CityJet". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  37. ^ "CityJet exits examinership after High Court ruling". The Irish Times. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  38. ^ "CityJet to Expand Fleet with Five Bombardier CRJ1000 Jets". Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  39. ^ "Cityjet fliegt mit CRJ1000 für Lufthansa". airliners.de (in German). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  40. ^ "Brussels Airlines expands summer offer". press.brusselsairlines.com. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  41. ^ "CityJet - Fleet". CityJet - Providing Capacity as a Service. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  42. ^ "CityJet Fleet". CityJet. 19 August 2019.
  43. ^ "Für heimische Airlines: Russland will Cityjet-Superjets zurückkaufen". 28 January 2021.
  44. ^ "Celebrates The Heineken Cup As Official Airline of the Leinster Team". CityJet. from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

Bibliography edit

  • Fuelled by Belief: The CityJet Story by Pat Byrne, first printed September 2004 – ISBN 1-904148-57-3
  • Perry, Dominic. "Air France continues review of CityJet's future." Flightglobal. 31 October 2012.

External links edit

  Media related to CityJet at Wikimedia Commons

  • Official website

January 01, 1970
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For other uses see CityJet disambiguation CityJet is an Irish regional airline with headquarters at Dublin Airport 1 It was founded in 1992 and has gone through a series of corporate structures The airline was sold to Air France in 2000 and then by Air France to Intro Aviation in May 2014 2 in March 2016 the airline was bought by founder Pat Byrne and other investors 3 CityJet ended its own brand scheduled services in 2018 and is now a major provider of wet leasing to European airlines 4 As of Summer 2023 CityJet operates wet lease services on behalf of Brussels Airlines Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines CityJetIATA ICAO Callsign WX BCY CITY IRELANDFounded1992Commenced operations1994HubsCopenhagen AirportFleet size25HeadquartersDublin IrelandKey peoplePat Byrne Executive chairman Hugh Rodgers CFO Eugene Quigley COO Cathal O Connell CCOEmployees625Websitecityjet com Over 450 of CityJet s 600 staff are employed in Copenhagen in both flying and ground roles making CityJet one of the most significant airline employers in Denmark with further crew employed in Sweden 5 In addition to its head office at Dublin Airport and crew planning centre in Luton CityJet has a maintenance hangar and offices in Copenhagen Kastrup Airport 6 Contents 1 History 1 1 Early years 1 2 Air France era 1 3 2020s 2 Fleet 2 1 Current fleet 2 2 Historic fleet 3 Sponsorships 4 See also 5 References 5 1 Citations 5 2 Bibliography 6 External linksHistory editEarly years edit nbsp A CityJet Saab 2000 in 1998 Cityjet was founded in 1992 as Business City Direct and commenced operations in December 1993 In January 1994 it started a single route between Dublin and London City Airport under a franchise agreement with Virgin Atlantic in which it paid fees and charges to Virgin in order to operate as Virgin Cityjet and use Virgin Atlantic s distribution channels The airline was mainly competing with British Midland and Aer Lingus services from Dublin to London Heathrow and Ryanair services from Dublin to London Stansted However Cityjet held a monopoly on services to London City until Aer Lingus launched services from Dublin to London City in September 1999 7 In June 1995 Virgin Cityjet debuted with flights between Dublin and Brussels competing with Sabena and Aer Lingus initially 7 In 1996 the airline terminated its franchise agreement with Virgin Atlantic on short notice and decided to continue operations using its own CityJet name from the end of July that year By then the airline flew scheduled flights from Dublin to London City Brussels and Malaga The decision to discontinue the Virgin Atlantic franchise came as Virgin itself entered the European short haul market with budget carrier Virgin Express and CityJet feared customers could confuse the low cost carrier with its own full service operation 8 Air France era edit nbsp A CityJet BAe 146 200 operated on behalf of Air France in 2007 In 1999 Cityjet was at the verge of bankruptcy Air Foyle acquired half of the shares in the airline in return for assuming the carrier s debts Air France took another 25 percent while investing 2 million Under the new structure Cityjet retained its own scheduled services while also becoming Air France s principal European subcontract airline However Cityjet still remained a loss making business 9 In early 2000 Air France took over all shares in CityJet and became its sole owner At the time Cityjet already operated seven out of eight of its aircraft for Air France 10 The French national airline was allowed to outsource operations of aircraft with less than 100 seats to regional partners and subsidiaries under its contracts with Air France labour unions overall savings to Air France by outsourcing regional operations to the Irish subsidiary were estimated at around 40 percent 7 In 2006 Cityjet operated supplemented Air France s operations with flights from Paris to Dublin Birmingham Edinburgh London City Florence Gothenburg and Zurich Furthermore the airline still operated between London City and Dublin The fleet consisted of 20 aged BAe 146 aircraft From December 2006 the airline began replacing them with 23 much younger but similar Avro RJ85s it had acquired in a 221 million deal from Mesaba Airlines 11 On 24 December 2007 Air France KLM announced that it had signed an agreement for a full takeover of VLM Airlines NV from Panta Holdings 12 and announced on 28 May 2009 that VLM Airlines would gradually start to operate under the brand name CityJet As of 1 June 2010 the whole VLM Airlines Fokker 50 fleet wore full CityJet livery although VLM remained the owner of its own Airline Operators Certificate and the Fokker 50 fleet was listed on the Belgian registry CityJet filed a pretax loss of 51 5 million for the year to the end of March 2010 This compared to a 53 9 million loss in the year to end March 2009 Revenues fell by 8 percent from 282 4 million to 258 9 million over the same period Passenger numbers grew climbing by 6 5 percent to 2 1 million while average fares dropped by 16 percent 13 Christine Ourmieres joined as new chief executive on 1 October 2010 She had previously held a number of senior posts within the Air France KLM group In the IATA year ending 31 March 2010 CityJet carried just over 1 million passengers on its London City network nbsp A former CityJet Sukhoi Superjet 100 nbsp A former CityJet Avro RJ85 In June 2012 it was announced that Air France KLM was considering selling CityJet to support its own ailing business 14 with a further statement in April 2013 that the winning bidder would be announced in the summer of 2013 15 As of October 2013 the operational agreement with Air France had been replaced by codesharing with most routes operated under its own WX code instead of Air France s 16 In December 2013 Air France announced it would sell CityJet including VLM Airlines to German investor Intro Aviation The transfer was completed in May 2014 2 17 CityJet subsidiary VLM Airlines was bought by its own management and cut itself loose from CityJet However they were to remain flying the London City to Antwerp route as an ACMI operator for CityJet until mid 2016 On 28 June 2016 CityJet inaugurated its Sukhoi Superjet 100 revenue services with its first scheduled flight from Cork to Nantes 18 CityJet commenced a wet lease contract with Brussels Airlines using the Superjet in March 2017 19 In October 2015 Scandinavian Airlines SAS announced it would sell its Finnish subsidiary Blue1 to CityJet and that CityJet would provide wet lease services to SAS from March 2016 with CityJet placing an order for up to 14 new Bombardier CRJ900 jets 8 firm and six options 20 21 22 Four of the options were later confirmed In 2016 Blue1 was dissolved and merged into its parent CityJet 23 In January 2017 CityJet agreed to buy Cimber which had a fleet of 11 CRJ900s 24 from SAS In addition to the acquisition of Cimber CityJet secured a long term wet lease contract with SAS and placed an order leading to a further ten CRJ900 jets to replace those operated by Cimber 25 bringing it to a total of 22 new CRJ900 aircraft operating in total for SAS 26 In March 2017 CityJet stated that it planned to focus more on its wetlease business while reducing its own scheduled flights This led to the closure of routes from London City to Nantes and Paris as well as a downgrade of frequencies on other routes CityJet then planned to operate 80 percent of all flights on a wetlease basis 27 On 5 April 2017 it was announced that KLM Cityhopper would wet lease two Avro RJ85s from CityJet to operate four additional Amsterdam London City services per weekday over the Summer 2017 season starting 15 May 2017 In late October 2017 CityJet cancelled most of its remaining routes from London City Airport leaving Dublin as its only scheduled destination from there after operating a much larger network in previous years 28 In July 2018 it was announced that CityJet and Air Nostrum would merge 29 This merger received EU approval in 2019 but was deferred during Covid before being reactivated in 2022 with completion expected in 2023 30 In late August 2018 CityJet announced they would cease operating scheduled services under their own brand effective from 27 October 2018 but continue business as an ACMI leasing provider At the end of October 2018 CityJet commenced a wet lease agreement with Aer Lingus operating two Avro RJ85 aircraft primarily on the Dublin to London City route 31 In 2019 CityJet pulled all Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft from service due to insufficient operational reliability and returned them to their lessor replacing these aircraft with CRJ900 jets on the wet lease contract with Brussels Airlines 32 In 2019 Cityjet partnered with KLM to create Air Antwerp a new airline based in Antwerp International Airport It operated daily flights to London City Airport from 9 September 2019 In May 2021 CityJet handed its 75 share of Air Antwerp over to co owner KLM but the airline ceased operations in June 2021 33 In April 2020 Brussels Airlines cancelled its wetlease contract with CityJet for five aircraft in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic 34 The Aer Lingus wet lease agreement also ended at this time due to market uncertainty 35 In the same month the High Court appointed an interim examiner to CityJet 36 CityJet exited the Examinership process in August 2020 after financial restructuring 37 2020s edit After a brief pause at the start of the Covid pandemic CityJet recommenced wet lease services on behalf of Scandinavian Airlines in June 2020 and progressively built up to the operation of 18 CRJ900 for SAS by 2022 In March 2023 CityJet took delivery of the first of five CRJ 1000 100 seat regional jets 38 to supplement its fleet of 21 CRJ900s with the first two flying on a wet lease contract with Lufthansa 39 A new wet lease contract with Brussels Airlines commenced in March 2023 using two CRJ900 jets 40 Fleet editCurrent fleet edit nbsp CityJet Bombardier CRJ900 operated for Scandinavian Airlines As of January 2024 ref the CityJet fleet consists of the following aircraft 41 CityJet Fleet Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Notes Bombardier CRJ900 12 90 8 88 Operated for Scandinavian Airlines 42 Bombardier CRJ1000 5 100 4 Operated for Lufthansa Total 25 Historic fleet edit The airline has previously operated BAE146 Avro RJ85 Fokker 50 Saab 2000 and Sukhoi Superjet 100 43 aircraft citation needed Sponsorships editCityJet was the Official Airline of Leinster Rugby 44 See also editTransport in IrelandReferences editCitations edit CityJet Contact Us CityJet Providing Capacity as a Service Retrieved 31 July 2023 a b Air France confirms offer from Intro Aviation for CityJet VLM ch aviation com Ch aviation ch Archived from the original on 26 December 2013 Retrieved 7 March 2014 Irish regional airline CityJet sold to private investors Reuters 24 March 2016 Archived from the original on 20 August 2017 Retrieved 2 July 2017 Cityjet is shifting gear from scheduled services to wet leasing 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France KLM considering to sell CityJet Archived 16 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Irish regional CityJet CEO impressed with bidders Wales Air Forum Walesairforum wordpress com 11 April 2013 Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 Retrieved 7 March 2014 Cityjet to terminate Air France franchise agreement from October ch aviation com Ch aviation ch Archived from the original on 9 March 2014 Retrieved 7 March 2014 Irish based airline CityJet finalises sale to Intro Aviation Tourism News Travel amp Tourism Industry News the Irish Times Thu May 01 2014 The Irish Times Archived from the original on 1 May 2014 Retrieved 1 May 2014 ch aviation com CityJet begins scheduled SuperJet operations Archived 2 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine 1 July 2016 CityJet delivers Sukhoi Superjet into mainline European network operation Aviation Week Network aviationweek com Retrieved 31 July 2023 businesswire com SAS Enters into Agreements with Cityjet for Wet Lease and Sale of Blue1 Archived 16 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine 1 October 2015 CityJet to Fly New Aircraft For SAS cityjet com Archived from the original on 3 June 2016 Retrieved 16 February 2016 Orban Andre 2 October 2015 CityJet to fly new aircraft for SAS Aviation24 be Retrieved 31 July 2023 Blue 1 on ch aviation ch aviation Archived from the original on 22 September 2017 Retrieved 9 May 2018 Nelson Chris 25 January 2017 Bombardier wins CRJ900 jet order from Irish carrier CityJet The National Archived from the original on 1 April 2017 Retrieved 31 March 2017 Leeuwen Marcel van 29 March 2017 CityJet Order for four Additional Bombardier CRJ900 Aircraft for his SAS network Aviation News Retrieved 31 July 2023 CityJet to pay up to 434m for new jets and buys Denmark s Cimber Independent ie independent ie Retrieved 9 May 2018 More Wetlease CityJet reduces at London City Airport aerotelegraph com March 2017 Archived from the original on 1 March 2017 Where We Fly www cityjet com Archived from the original on 14 November 2017 Retrieved 9 May 2018 Hamilton Peter CityJet deal with Spanish airline is prelude to a merger The Irish Times Retrieved 23 January 2020 Kaminski Morrow2023 03 05T14 13 00 00 00 David Air Nostrum CityJet tie up re cleared by EU regulators Flight Global Retrieved 31 July 2023 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Aer Lingus and CityJet Join Forces on Dublin London City Route www cityjet com Retrieved 29 August 2018 Brussels Airlines to end Cityjet Sukhoi Operation FlyingInIreland com 2 January 2019 Retrieved 31 July 2023 Schneider Oscar 9 August 2019 Air Antwerp flies to London from 9 September The Brussels Times Retrieved 14 August 2019 aerotelegraph com German 15 April 2020 Aer Lingus cancels contract with Cityjet 27 May 2020 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help O Faolain Aodhan 17 April 2020 Interim examiner appointed to Dublin based airline CityJet TheJournal ie Retrieved 17 April 2020 CityJet exits examinership after High Court ruling The Irish Times Retrieved 31 July 2023 CityJet to Expand Fleet with Five Bombardier CRJ1000 Jets Retrieved 31 July 2023 Cityjet fliegt mit CRJ1000 fur Lufthansa airliners de in German Retrieved 31 July 2023 Brussels Airlines expands summer offer press brusselsairlines com Retrieved 31 July 2023 CityJet Fleet CityJet Providing Capacity as a Service Retrieved 6 January 2024 CityJet Fleet CityJet 19 August 2019 Fur heimische Airlines Russland will Cityjet Superjets zuruckkaufen 28 January 2021 Celebrates The Heineken Cup As Official Airline of the Leinster Team CityJet Archived from the original on 19 February 2014 Retrieved 7 March 2014 Bibliography edit Fuelled by Belief The CityJet Story by Pat Byrne first printed September 2004 ISBN 1 904148 57 3 Perry Dominic Air France continues review of CityJet s future Flightglobal 31 October 2012 External links edit nbsp Media related to CityJet at 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