Jota Aviation placed its second BAe 1460-300QT freighter into service. G-JOTF (msn E3186) flew from Southend to Lyon on 22 November, returning the following morning. She then departed again, this time to Liverpool. In the meantime, sistership G-JOTE (msn E3182) was ferried to Hannover on 20 November, then operated a flight to Lisbon the following day, before returning home to Southend. On the passenger side, Avro RJ85 G-JOTR (msn E2294) took over the flights for Air France subsidiary Hop! from 11 to 14 November while RJ100 G-JOTS (msn E3355) came home for maintenance. G-JOTR then flew for British Airways Cityflyer from 15 to 18 November, taking over from 146-200 G-SMLA (msn E2047), who had been operating for British Airways since 11 November. Most recently, she flew a charter from London Stansted to Manchester. G-SMLA has also flown some charters in recent days, to Liverpool, London Luton, and Bournemouth.
Recent news items on Jota Aviation:
- Double charter for Jota BAe 146QTs (2018-12-15)
- Jota operates more cargo charters (2018-11-09)
- Jota starts cargo charters (2018-10-20)
- Jota flies for Loganair (2018-10-14)
- Hop! plans to reduces ACMI leases (2018-10-06)