The Latvian airline Air Baltic will be flying from Stuttgart on behalf of Eurowings from Tuesday. Two Airbus A220-300s will be stationed at Baden-Württemberg's largest airport for the wet lease contract. The flights will be operated under the flight numbers of the Lufthansa subsidiary. According to a report by Airliners.de, the Latvian state carrier's medium-haul jets will be used to Vienna, Milan-Malpensa and Hamburg, among others. A Eurowings spokesperson confirmed the media report. In addition, the airline is said to be in negotiations with other airlines about wet lease services. This means that Air Baltic has - at least for the time being - outdone its competitor Helvetic Airways. This year there were already rumors that Helvetic could fly with Embraer jets from Stuttgart for Eurowings. Nothing has come of this yet, but it could happen in summer 2022. At least for the time being, two A220-300s from Air Baltic will be in use for Eurowings from Stuttgart. This wet lease is also viewed critically, as the Lufthansa Group still has a huge number of employees on short-time work. Nor is the entire fleet in use. Evil tongues claim - without naming any sources - that the wet lease of the Latvian jets could be cheaper than operating them themselves. Regardless of this, the Lufthansa Group will most likely take a close look at how the A220-300 "works" in the Eurowings network, as the renewal of the Kranich regional fleet is imminent and it has not yet been decided whether to go for the A220 like Swiss or order the E2 models from Embraer.