United Nigeria Airlines (UN, Enugu) is to wet-lease in an E190 and an A320-200 to boost domestic capacity during the IATA Northern winter season.
The E190 is being sourced on a one-year wet-lease from Marathon Airlines (O8, Athens), starting on November 1, 2024. The Greek ACMI/charter specialist also said it would add a further two aircraft to the UNA contract. The A320 is being sourced from Bulgaria’s Fly2Sky (F6, Sofia) on a recurring ACMI agreement, operating from November 2024 to March 31, 2025, Fly2Sky said. Neither operator was available for comment.
Marathon currently has one E190 in its fleet, ch-aviation research shows. SX-PTM (msn 19000163) is 16.51 years old and has 98 seats in an all-economy configuration, according to the ch-aviation fleets module. It was ferried from Warsaw Chopin to Athens on October 24, 2024, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. As of October 29, ADS-B data shows the aircraft is yet to be ferried to West Africa.
Fly2Sky’s fleet comprises seven A320-200s and two A321-200s. Its current ACMI customers include the likes of Wizz Air, Arkia Israeli Airlines, Air Serbia, and Air Algérie.
United Nigeria Airlines currently operates domestic flights to nine destinations in Nigeria. Its fleet comprises four E145s, of which two are inactive. It previously wet-leased an A320-200 from Jordan Aviation (R5, Amman Queen Alia) which was used on domestic flights from December 2023 until April 2024.
Marathon also said it was expanding its existing wet-lease partnership with Cameroon’s Camair-Co (QC, Douala) with the addition of an E175 to that operation. Camair-Co currently operates domestic flights with an E195 leased from Marathon. The contract will run until December 2026, the Greek carrier said. Along with the two leased E-Jets, Camair-Co also operates two DHC-8-Q400s, two MA-60s, two B737-700s (one inactive), and one B767-300ER (inactive).