17 Facts About CityJet

CityJet is an Irish regional airline with headquarters in Swords, Dublin.

Since 2017, CityJet had moved away from scheduled flights and has instead focused on wet leasing and charter flights.

The decision to discontinue the Virgin Atlantic franchise came as Virgin itself entered the European short-haul market with budget carrier Virgin Express, and CityJet feared customers could confuse the low-cost carrier with its own full-service operation.

CityJet has previously held a number of senior posts within the Air France-KLM group.

In December 2013 Air France announced it would sell CityJet, including VLM Airlines, to German investor Intro Aviation.

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In 2014, CityJet started a new codeshare with Guernsey based airline Blue Islands, after Blue Islands pulled out of selected European routes.

In June 2015, CityJet announced the termination of flights to Dresden, the last of four German destinations, due to low demand.

In October 2015, Scandinavian Airlines announced it would sell its Finnish subsidiary Blue1 to CityJet, who planned to continue to operate the company on behalf of SAS as part of a larger co-operation.

On 28 June 2016, CityJet inaugurated its Sukhoi Superjet 100 revenue services with its first scheduled flight from Cork to Nantes.

In January 2017, CityJet agreed to buy Cimber, which had a fleet of 11 CRJ900s, from SAS.

In March 2017, CityJet stated that it planned to focus more on its wetlease business while reducing its own scheduled flights.

CityJet then planned to operate 80 percent of all flights on a wetlease basis.

On 5 April 2017, it was announced that KLM Cityhopper would wet lease two Avro RJ85s from CityJet to operate four additional Amsterdam–London City services per weekday over the Summer 2017 season, starting 15 May 2017.

In late October 2017, CityJet cancelled most of its remaining routes from London City Airport, leaving Dublin as its only scheduled destinations from there after operating a much larger network in previous years.

In late August 2018, CityJet announced they would cease operating scheduled services under their own brand, effective from 27 October 2018, but continue business as an ACMI leasing provider.

In 2019, CityJet pulled all Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft from service due to insufficient operational reliability and returned them to their lessor.

CityJet ceased scheduled operations under its own name in October 2018, but continues to operate several routes on wetlease contracts for Scandinavian Airlines.