Airline: | GetJet Airlines |
Iata: | GW[1] |
Icao: | GJT |
Callsign: | GETJET |
Fleet Size: | 15 |
Parent: | GetJet Aviation Holdings |
Num Employees: | 910 |
Headquarters: | Vilnius, Lithuania |
Key People: | Aleksandr Celiadin (Executive Chairman) Rūta Kulvinskaitė (CEO)Darius Viltrakis (CEO of GetJet Aviation Holdings) |
Bases: | Vilnius Airport |
Revenue: | €28 mil. (2023) |
GetJet Airlines is a Lithuanian charter airline company founded in 2016.
GetJet Airlines has operated ACMI wet leases for airlines including Wizz Air, Finnair, Transavia, Icelandair, TUI Airways, Vueling, and others.[2]
GetJet Airlines was founded by Aleksandr (Alex) Celiadin. The company was issued an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from Lithuania in March 2016. In May of the same year, the company obtained an EU commercial license. The company's first flight took place on 25 May 2016.[3]
In late 2018 the company took over Small Planet Airlines's chartered flights from the Vilnius airport.[4] [5]
In September 2019 the company signed an agreement to operate Sunwing Airlines flights in Canadian territory.[6] In October 2019, GetJet Airlines began operating transatlantic flights to North America between Warsaw and Toronto on behalf of LOT Polish Airlines using an Airbus A330 aircraft.[7]
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, GetJet modified aircraft to transport cargo, including the first COVID-19 vaccines to Lithuania. [8] In 2020, GetJet was named the leader of Lithuania’s transport and logistics sector at the Verslo žinios awards.[9]
In 2022, GetJet Airlines operated its first commercial flight to Australia.[10] It reported EBITDA of 28 million EUR in 2023.[11]
In 2024, GetJet Airlines Latvia received the Part 129 Operation Specification approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a prerequisite for the carrier to operate passenger flights to and from the USA.
In 2024, GetJet Airlines added three Airbus A320 and two Boeing 737-800 aircraft to its fleet.[12]
As of May 2024, the GetJet Airlines fleet consists of 15 aircraft:[13] [14]
Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Y | Total | ||||||
Airbus A320-200 | 9 | 0 | - | 180 | 180 | |||
Airbus A321-200 | 1 | 0 | - | 220 | 220 | |||
Boeing 737-800 | 5 | 0 | — | 189 | 189 | |||
Total | 15 | 0 |
The following lists the aircraft formerly operated by GetJet Airlines:
Aircraft | In service | Passengers | Notes | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Y | Total | |||||
Airbus A319-100 | 5 | - | 150 | 150 | |||
Airbus A320-200 | 6 | - | 180 | 180 | |||
Airbus A330-300 | 1 | Cargo | |||||
Boeing 737-300 | 4 | - | 148 | 148 | |||
Boeing 737-400 | 5 | — | 168 | 168 | |||
Boeing 737-800 | 1 | — | 186 | 186 | |||
Total | 22 |