FLEET - Madagascar Airlines plans to have six ATR72-500s, two of which will join its fleet in 2024, with a sovereign guarantee from the State.

Two more will come between the end of 2024 and the summer of 2025. The carrier’s old aircraft with high lease rates will also be returned.

Air Madagascar leasing a Bulgarian A330 for summer operations

Air Madagáscar has supplemented its summer operational fleet with an A330-200, LZ-AWA (cn 255), leased from Bulgaria's BH Air - Balkan Holidays Air.
The aircraft replaces a B767-300(ER) that was to have been leased from Portuguese ACMI specialists, euroAtlantic Airways , over the period June 26 to October 23 .

Air Madagascar A340-300 to be operated by Air Atlanta

Air Madagascar  has stopped its cooperation with Air France which had so far operated one of Air Madagascar's two A340-300s F-GLZL (c/n 210) on a wet-lease basis on flights from Marseilles Provence and Paris CDG to Antananarivo. It has temporarily wet-leased B777-200 from euroAtlantic Airways until its new wet-lease partner Air Atlanta Icelandic is able to take over the A340-300 operations from Air France. Madagascar is currently blacklisted by the European Union because of a lack of safety oversight of the country's airlines.

Air Madagascar will take delivery of its first of two ex-Air France A340-300) on April 11.

EUROATLANTIC / AIR MADAGASCAR - B777-200ER, CS-TFM

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