Leasing

Your aircraft are leased from lessors, who list what they have on the aircraft market. A lease runs for a fixed term at a monthly rate, quoted in US dollars as the industry prices it.

Dry lease

A dry lease is the aircraft alone. Your own crews fly it, your engineers maintain it, and you insure it. Dry leases are cheaper by the month and run for years: typically two to eight.

Wet lease (ACMI)

A wet lease comes with Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance from the lessor. It costs about twice as much a month, but needs nothing from you, and terms are short: one to six months. Wet leases suit covering a gap, such as a busy season or an aircraft away for maintenance, or trying out a route before committing an aircraft to it.

Delivery

Once the request is sent, the lessor prepares the aircraft (paperwork and technical acceptance), then ferries it to your base, with fuel stops if it’s far away. It joins your fleet at once: it shows on the Fleet tab, where you can follow the delivery, and has its own row on the schedule, with the ferry flight on it, and you can schedule flights for it straight away. It flies them once it has landed at your base and been turned round.

Where it can go

An aircraft can only be based at, and fly to, airports that can take it: long enough runways, room for its wingspan, and steep-approach certification where needed. The market shows what each one can’t use. See Airfields.