Marabu (DI, Tallinn Lennart Meri) will damp lease two A320 aircraft from Bul Air during the 2025 summer season.
The Estonian leisure carrier announced that the two Airbus aircraft will be based at Irakleion and Palma de Mallorca. The aircraft will fly from Crete to Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Friedrichshafen, and Münster/Osnabrück, and from Palma to Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Münster/Osnabrück, and Friedrichshafen.
It did not disclose when the aircraft are expected to start operating on its network. ch-aviation asked Marabu and Bul Air for comment but they were not immediately available.
The Estonian carrier wet-leased one A320-200 from Bul Air during the 2024 summer season.
Marabu recently revealed plans to double its fleet by 2026. The airline's chief executive, Axel Schefe, told ch-aviation early in 2024 that the company planned to grow its in-house fleet by four to five aircraft every year while maintaining stable wet-lease commitments of around five aircraft during the summer seasons.
According to the ch-aviation fleets module, Marabu currently operates eight A320-200Ns while Bul Air's fleet consists nine B737-300s, four A319-100s, and one A320-200. Bul Air parent Bulgaria Air operates one A319-100, five A320-200s, two A220-100s, five A220-300s, and four E190s.
