Smartlynx Airlines, a cargo, charter, and wet-lease / ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance) carrier from Latvia, has ceased operations after more than three decades in the skies. The airline was well known for providing European airlines with extra capacity on an ACMI basis, and had even expanded its operations on this front as far afield as India in recent years.

Having begun life in the early to mid-1990s as an operator of Soviet-era aircraft, Smartlynx went on to modernize and grow its fleet as it became one of Europe's leading ACMI and charter operators. Many passengers may not have even noticed that they were on a Smartlynx jet, with carriers such as easyJet adding their own branding to the otherwise white planes, but the carrier played an important role behind th

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