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Old Mar 26, 2009 | 9:51 am
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Originally Posted by LouiseMc
Last year I flew on Air Niugini from Brisbane to Port Moresby, New Guinea on a Boeing 767-300. It was a surprise when I looked at my boarding pass and it said "Operated by Icelandair". The plane was painted with "Air Niugini" and it also said "White" on the tail and www.flywhite.com on the side. Would this be a company that leases planes?
Yep. Icelandair has a fairly large leasing operation. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandair

Icelandair is leasing one of its 757-200 to Air Niugini in Papua New Guinea registration TF-FII. Icelandair's sister company Loftleidir Icelandic is leasing one of its aircraft a 767-300.
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