EgyptAir puts all nine E170s up for sale

EgyptAir Holding has put all nine of its mothballed ERJ 170-100LRs up for sale via public auction with bids due by December 20, 2021. The aircraft were operated by EgyptAir Express until March 2020 and are currently stored at Cairo Int'l airport, except for SU-GDJ, which is parked at Sharm el Sheikh. The aircraft are airworthy and are being sold together with a pair of General Electric CF34-8E engines each. EgyptAir Express - which was merged into the mainline EgyptAir in 2019 - operated twelve E170s. Besides the nine currently up for sale, the other three units were sold to state-owned CIAF Leasing of which two are currently dry leased to Tunisia's Jasmin Airways and one is operated by the lessor's in-house airline CIAF Leasing - Air Operation. EgyptAir's current regional jet fleet currently comprises twelve A220-300s.<br/>