ACMI & Bases
ACMI & Bases
ACMI - Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance.
SmartLynx provides ACMI leasing services to airlines around Europe and other continents. Here, on this page you can find information about bases, partners and airlines, to which we provide ACMI leasing services.
Bases
SmartLynx Virtual operates direct routes up to 16 destinations of Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa from Riga and Tallinn.
Riga International Airport
Riga Airport is the biggest commercial airport in Baltics. It opened in 1974 and it will be 50 years in the next year! Riga airport can serve major size aircaft, as Airbus A330, Boeing 747, 787 and An-225. Airport is equipped with 3,200m asphalt runway. Riga serves passengers through passenger terminals B and C. SmartLynx mostly uses C for Non-Schengen flights.
That former terminal is called "washer". It was used for flights on Fokker 50, Bombardier Q400 and much more types of aircrafts. Now it is used as a baggage lobby.
Aprons are ususally used for low-cost airlines, flag carrier of Latvia Air Baltic,LOT and Finnair.
Here is the parking of ground equipment, such as stair trucks, buses, follow me cars and etc.
Tallinn Leenart Meri Airport
Tallinn Airport is located in Tallinn, capital city of Estonia. Airport is located in the city, that makes civilians quickly get to airport. It has the biggest runway after Siauliai in baltic countries - 3,280m. Also Tallinn airport has a very beutiful brick terminal, where most airlines are parked.Some flights use aprons for cheaper operations, like low-cost and charter airlines.
The airport was built in the 1930s and now operates routes to most countries of Europe. You can see Airbus A321 landing in Tallinn to Runway 08.
Airlines we provide ACMI
SmartLynx VA provides leasing services to airlines listed upper. We are proud to have an ACMI arrangement with Air Transat and Finnair VA. Our members can operate routes for different airlines, while being in one virtual airline.