Dutch start-up Amsterdam Airlines is aiming to secure its air operator’s certificate on 1 June and receive its first aircraft later that month in time launch operations on 27 June.

Amsterdam Airlines will specialise in three business areas: tour operator charter flights, business-to-business all-premium operations and wet-lease work.

It will launch using an International Aero Engines IAE V2500-powered Airbus A320, currently in service with Mexicana, sourced on lease from International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC). Amsterdam Airlines tapped Airbus to design its livery.

Former Denim Air CEO and Amsterdam Airlines founder Matthijs Boertien tells ATI: “We will take delivery of the first aircraft [in Mexico City] on 16 June. On 27 June we will operate our first commercial flight, originating in Amsterdam and flying to Ankara in Turkey. Tickets have been sold by the tour operator for that date.”

The initial flight will operate as a 100% guaranteed char

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