In response to robust domestic demand growth, Okay Airways plans to expand its fleet from eight to 12 aircraft by year’s end and to 20 aircraft by the end of 2011. The current fleet consists of three 737-800s, two MA60s and three 737 freighters operating on more than 20 domestic routes.
The Tianjin-based carrier placed an order with AVIC for 10 MA60s in 2007. But owing to the carrier’s suspension of operation at the end of 2008, it introduced only one MA60 earlier this month. It operates on the carrier's Shenyang-Dalian route.
The other MA60s are expected to be delivered within two years as the carrier opens more regional routes to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Shandong Province and Liaoning Province.
Okay also signed an agreement in June with ALAFCO to lease three 737-800s. Two will be introduced in December and one in July 2011.
In addition, Okay ordered 10 737-800s at the Farnborough Airshow last month. Deliveries will begin in 2014.