Cityjet to establish a base at Tallinn Airport

Irish airline Cityjet is expanding into Estonia by establishing a base at Tallinn Airport.

The Dublin-based regional carrier confirmed that it is recruiting for crew to be based in the Baltic country’s capital.

A number of its aircraft already overnight there, so the company has decided that it makes sense to establish it as a base.

Cityjet recently exercised an option to buy four partly Irish-manufactured CRJ900 aircraft from Canadian manufacturer Bombardier. It intends that the craft will operate under wet lease – a deal whereby one airline supplies aircraft and crew to another – for Scandinavian carrier SAS. The order is worth about €435 million on the basis of current list prices for the craft.

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The CRJ900’s centre fuselage and wing components are manufactured in Bombardier’s Belfast facility.

Cityjet is expanding its business through providing wet-lease services to larger carriers.