Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has announced long-term lease placements for nine Boeing 737 aircraft with Turkey’s Corendon Airlines Group (Corendon). Five new 737-8s will be delivered to Corendon in Turkey in the Spring of this year and one new 737-8 in the first quarter of 2023. Corendon will also lease three new 737-9s from the beginning of the first half of 2023. All nine aircraft are currently part of ALC’s orderbook with Boeing.
“ALC is a major lessor to the Corendon Airlines Group with three operating airlines in the Netherlands, Malta and Turkey and we are pleased to announce these lease placements,” said Steven F. Udvar-Házy, Executive Chairman of Air Lease Corporation.
“We appreciate and thank ALC for the long-time cooperation and fleet support,” said Yildiray Karaer, Chairman of the Corendon Group.
Corendon is an international tourism group specialising in air transportation. Corendon Airlines, which has three different registered airlines including Turkey, the Netherlands and Malta, carries more than ten million passengers a year through its tourist flights from Europe to popular holiday destinations as well as direct flights from Europe to many cities of Anatolia.