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Yesterday (March 3) I flew Jetstar Pacific 596 from SGN to DAD. The airplane contained markings for vueling.com, the crew was wearing vueling uniforms, and despite being a domestic flight in Vietnam, flight announcements were made in English and Spanish. As far as I can tell, Vueling is a low cost carrier in Spain and this wasn't a code share flight.

It looks like this may have been the plane: https://m.planespotters.net/airframe/Airbus/A320/5940/EC-LZF-Jetstar-Pacific-Airlines

Can anyone explain what is going on? I've never seen anything like this before.

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Airlines wet lease aircraft all the time (wet lease being a lease that includes crew, maintenance, pilots, etc versus a dry lease which is aircraft only). If the lease is long term, then often the plane is painted to match the leasing airline's look and flight crews are provided with uniforms. But if the lease is short term, say filling the need for an increase in flights during a certain season or perhaps a delay in delivery of a new aircraft, then the aircraft may not be repainted.