AWAS delivers one A321-200 passenger aircraft to Aegean Airlines

AWAS announced today that it has agreed to the lease of one A321-200 passenger aircraft with long-time customer Aegean Airlines. This aircraft comes from AWAS’ existing portfolio and has delivered today.

Eftichios Vassilakis, Vice Chairman Aegean Airlines stated upon receiving delivery of the aircraft, “We are happy today to accept the delivery of this A321 aircraft from our trusted partners at AWAS. This aircraft will assist us to better serve the expanded destinations we recently announced as well as to continue to provide our customers with a strong level of comfort and service excellence.”

Ray Sisson, President & CEO AWAS commented, “We are very pleased to expand our relationship with our customer Aegean Airlines. At AWAS we pride ourselves on identifying airlines early with strong future potential, developing a long-term relationship and growing with them as they expand and succeed…and Aegean is a perfect example of that strategy in action.”

AWAS has had a strong business relationship with Aegean for over 15 years, originally providing 737 Classics and then migrating them to modern A320 family aircraft.

In late 2013 Aegean announced the addition of 15 new destinations from Athens in 2014, reaching to 47 overall international destinations from Athens. Specifically the new destinations include: Birmingham in England, Marseille and Nantes in France,

Zurich in Switzerland, Hamburg, Hanover and Nuremberg in Germany, Copenhagen in Denmark, Catania in Italy, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Beirut in Lebanon and Paphos in Cyprus, as well as 4 additional cities for considering inter alia, Stockholm, Sweden or Oslo in Norway, Ljubljana in Slovenia, Dubrovnik in Croatia.