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Sat, Sep 29, 2018

CityJet leases Two Bombardier CRJ900 ERs From TrueNoord

Will Be Operated By Cityjet Under The 10-Year Agreement

Regional aircraft lessor TrueNoord has closed a sale-leaseback transaction providing two Bombardier CRJ900 ERs to Cityjet DAC on ten year operating lease terms.TrueNoord has partly financed the transaction by the recent term loan warehouse facility underwritten by NORD/LB, Morgan Stanley and Barclays. Legal advice was provided by Hogan Lovells for TrueNoord and Allen & Overy for CityJet. Norton Rose and Clifford Chance advised on the financing side of the transaction.

Anne-Bart Tieleman, CEO – TrueNoord, acknowledges the timely additions of these aircraft to TrueNoord’s fleet. “These are the first CRJ900s for TrueNoord – and the aircraft type is in line with our ultimate vision and long-term plan to build up a strong portfolio of young regional aircraft types with a good global spread and leased to first class operators.

“The merger announcement made at Farnborough 2018 by Air Nostrum and CityJet is indicative of how the regional aviation landscape in Europe will change over the coming years. If approved, this combination will create Europe’s largest airline with a specific focus on ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) capacity provision, and with a merged fleet of almost 100 aircraft, the fusion of CityJet and Air Nostrum will create the first European supplier that starts to approach the scale of its North American counterparts. TrueNoord is delighted to be part of the group of suppliers of modern aircraft that will support this platform and their airline customers.”

Pat Byrne, Cityjet’s CEO, sees the sub-100 seat sector continuing as the combined fleet’s mainstay: “In recent years, operators like CityJet and Air Nostrum have separately taken strategic decisions to expand their respective ACMI offerings. CityJet has hitherto been a scheduled airline with a substantial presence at London City, but we adopted a new business model to focus on ACMI operations. We now only operate one remaining scheduled route between Dublin and London City, while all other flights are operated for major European carriers, including SAS, Air France, Hop! and Brussels Airlines. Our fleet has now grown to 46 aircraft providing greater scale and serving a more diversified customer base.

“Europe is catching up with the US in terms of operating the ACMI model in regional aircraft support – the next few years will see larger contracts coming onto the market and we intend to have the right fleet, in terms of aircraft type and size, to meet expanding demand. These two CRJ900s from TrueNoord are part of that strategy.”

(Source: TruNoord news release. Image from file)

FMI: truenoord.com

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