Air Europa (UX, Palma de Mallorca) expects to take delivery of its first three B737-8s in 2024, all of them from AerCap, to which will be added a further 17 that the carrier has now committed to begin dry-leasing between 2025 and 2027, it announced in a statement.
It will become the first airline in Spain to induct the B737 MAX and currently has a total of thirty B737-8s on order, having added in August 2022 ten of the type from AerCap with deliveries to run between 2024 and 2026 to earlier commitments for twenty.
Air Europa also said it plans to incorporate six B787-9s during 2024, to which another two will be added in 2025. It currently operates twelve of the widebodies as well as eleven B787-8s and has thirteen more B787-9s on order, the ch-aviation fleets module shows. These aircraft are currently in inventory at Boeing (BOE, Washington National) as they need post-production verification and rework to head off quality problems.
Apart from these, Air Europa’s all-leased fleet consists of twenty-one B737-800s. As ch-aviation reported last month, its low-cost unit Aeronova (X5, Valencia Manises), which operates as Air Europa Express, recently ended its ATR72-500 and E195 operations, leaving it with its own fleet of B737-800s, now numbering four, as three have been delivered to it this summer. Two more of the type are slated for delivery in the coming weeks, Air Europa said.
