Originally Posted by
dhuey
That's the look my mother of Irish ancestry would give me for that line.
But seriously, I was curious about the word origin, not the definition. Looking at the definitions of wet and dry leases, I cannot infer why the terms wet and dry are used. My best guess is that something wet dries out over a relatively short time, hence wet is used to designate the shorter lease.
I thnk, like so many terms in aviation, it come from old nautical origins. I THINK a wet lease was a ship lease that included Fuel, a dry lease didn't. These days there are so many variants of
wet-lease (the whole she-bang, +/- fuel),
damp-lease (generally supplied without cabin crew),
dry lease (nothing)
ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance)
Franchise
Code-share
Does anyone remember the BD operated wet-lease flights to various German airports for LH? They were marketed by LH, were treated as LH flights for marketing purposes, operated by BD AND had a four digit BD code-share on top. So BD were effectively code-sharing with themselves. There was no "true" BD flight number for these flights that could be used for booking purposes. Confused?