tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post8236783735377979948..comments2024-03-28T16:37:45.067+01:00Comments on EX-YU Aviation News: EX-YU without Budapest linkEX-YU Aviationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952283005857074627noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-74940050354355409822014-05-17T08:27:10.768+02:002014-05-17T08:27:10.768+02:00ASIA PACIFIC OFFSET provides a first class mock-up...ASIA PACIFIC OFFSET provides a first class mock-up service and a high quality press proofing service that combines the best craftsmanship and the latest technology. <br /><a href="http://www.asiapacificoffset.com/index.php/proof" rel="nofollow">Product development services</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03534265011325768326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-37822828248872391722012-02-07T16:25:11.442+01:002012-02-07T16:25:11.442+01:00In the 1990's BUD profited from the wars and s...In the 1990's BUD profited from the wars and sanctions in ex-YU and took away from BEG the role of region's hub. Only idiots at JU can't see the chance of opening a BUD-BEG service and making the same thing happen the other way around. <br /><br />BTW why was the entire MA's fleet leased out?CX753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-81414401328427613162012-02-07T11:39:59.846+01:002012-02-07T11:39:59.846+01:00Quote:
Recalling that former Udecott chairman Cald...Quote:<br />Recalling that former Udecott chairman Calder Hart’s ties to a Malaysian company which was awarded a $368 million contract to build the Legal Affairs Tower have been confirmed, Ramlogan exposed what he described as “the French Connection” between the PNM and French construction firm Bouygues Batiment in the award of a $300 million contract to design, build and outfit police stations in Arima, Cumuto, Guapo, Maloney, Moruga and Piarco.<br /><br />Ramlogan said although this contract was executed on March 29, this year, $3.6 million was paid to Bouygues on May 14, ten days before the May 24 General Election. <br /><br />“As if that was not bad enough, then they paid a further $10 million to Bouygues on May 14,” he said. Another $5 million was paid to Bouygues on May 19, he said, adding that it seemed Udecott was trying to advertise its “success record” to convince the population to re-elect the PNM to office. <br /><br />Ramlogan expressed concern that two Udecott offici%als, Hayden Paul and Brandon Primus, issued a notice to Bouygues to proceed with construction of the police stations although Udecott had not cleared the sites for construction to begin. <br /><br />Stating Udecott had no CEO nor board of directors in place at that time, Ramlogan referred to Government as now receiving letters from Bouygues, and said the company is entitled to payments of approximately $21 million within 14 days and an additional $145,000 per day that the stations are not built. <br /><br />Claiming this was an attempt to “bind the hands” of the Partnership and further burden the state of the economy, Ramlogan scoffed, “Not a nail pounded into a piece of board. Not a posthole dug but we the taxpayers and the economy have to continue to shell it out.” <br /><br />Noting Bouygues was the leader of the TriniTrain consortium that was awarded the $15 billion Rapid Rail contract, Ramlogan said Bouygues “seemed to have been the favoured contractor in this country” and questioned its ties with the former Patrick Manning government. <br /><br />“The root of the scandal and the corruption tree grows very deep,” he said. Stating Bouygues was a joint venture partner with Home Construction Limited, he said this evoked memories of former PNM treasurer Andre Monteil and the $110 million share controversy with Home Mortgage Bank and Stone Street Capital. <br /><br />An so on, and so on (Southampton Gatewaya, Highway 2000 in Jamaica, Basil Read in South Africa...)Purger 5noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-80851297074470833572012-02-07T11:37:42.680+01:002012-02-07T11:37:42.680+01:00Quote:
In 1995, pursuant to France's 1993 anti...Quote:<br />In 1995, pursuant to France's 1993 anticorruption clampdown, French police raided the Bouygues Group headquarters and held Bouygues for investigation on huge frauds involving illegal deposits allegedly made to a Swiss bank account that investigators believed may have been used to fund the reelection campaign of the former mayor of Lyon, Michael Noir. In 1996 Bouygues, along with two other prominent French business executives, was again investigated on allegations that ranged from accounting fraud to bribery. A year later Bouygues, Le Lay, and Philippe Chalendon, the commercial director of an arm of Bouygues Offshore, were placed under investigation in a case of alleged false billing and misuse of corporate assets involving approximately 40 companies in and around Paris. David Owen of the Financial Times wrote, "Bouygues would last night make no comment … except to emphasise that the men would continue 'fully' to exercise their corporate functions" (February 28, 1997). Owen noted that Bouygues was among several companies fined the year before by the French competition council for "price-fixing and other anticompetitive behavior in public sectors. The council accused 36 French companies of creating cartels for contracts ranging from the TGV high-speed railway to the Normandy suspension bridge over the Seine. The company is appealing the decision."<br /><br />In 1998 the Bouygues Group and two of France's other largest construction companies were subjected to a major investigation for an alleged agreed system for misappropriating public funds. An extensive article on the Public Services International Research Unit Web site read, "The companies participated in a corrupt cartel over building work for schools in the Ile-de-France region between 1989 and 1996. Contracts worth FF 28 billion (approximately $500 million) were shared out by the three groups, in meetings that took place in a hotel near the Champs-Elysees in Paris"Purger 3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-9305734088788735612012-02-07T09:34:58.211+01:002012-02-07T09:34:58.211+01:00Quote:
Recalling that former Udecott chairman Cald...Quote:<br />Recalling that former Udecott chairman Calder Hart’s ties to a Malaysian company which was awarded a $368 million contract to build the Legal Affairs Tower have been confirmed, Ramlogan exposed what he described as “the French Connection” between the PNM and French construction firm Bouygues Batiment in the award of a $300 million contract to design, build and outfit police stations in Arima, Cumuto, Guapo, Maloney, Moruga and Piarco. <br /><br />Ramlogan said although this contract was executed on March 29, this year, $3.6 million was paid to Bouygues on May 14, ten days before the May 24 General Election. <br /><br />“As if that was not bad enough, then they paid a further $10 million to Bouygues on May 14,” he said. Another $5 million was paid to Bouygues on May 19, he said, adding that it seemed Udecott was trying to advertise its “success record” to convince the population to re-elect the PNM to office. <br /><br />Ramlogan expressed concern that two Udecott offici%als, Hayden Paul and Brandon Primus, issued a notice to Bouygues to proceed with construction of the police stations although Udecott had not cleared the sites for construction to begin. <br /><br />Stating Udecott had no CEO nor board of directors in place at that time, Ramlogan referred to Government as now receiving letters from Bouygues, and said the company is entitled to payments of approximately $21 million within 14 days and an additional $145,000 per day that the stations are not built. <br /><br />Claiming this was an attempt to “bind the hands” of the Partnership and further burden the state of the economy, Ramlogan scoffed, “Not a nail pounded into a piece of board. Not a posthole dug but we the taxpayers and the economy have to continue to shell it out.” <br /><br />Noting Bouygues was the leader of the TriniTrain consortium that was awarded the $15 billion Rapid Rail contract, Ramlogan said Bouygues “seemed to have been the favoured contractor in this country” and questioned its ties with the former Patrick Manning government. <br /><br />“The root of the scandal and the corruption tree grows very deep,” he said. Stating Bouygues was a joint venture partner with Home Construction Limited, he said this evoked memories of former PNM treasurer Andre Monteil and the $110 million share controversy with Home Mortgage Bank and Stone Street Capital.Purger 4noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-71475624251710769612012-02-07T09:31:25.192+01:002012-02-07T09:31:25.192+01:00Quote:
A major controversy erupted in 2000 when Bo...Quote:<br />A major controversy erupted in 2000 when Bouygues refused to bid for a 3G technology license. The government was demanding a flat-rate fee of $4.5 billion. Bouygues balked, and Europe was stunned. "Martin Bouygues has taken a harsh line over recent months in denouncing the asking price for French UMTS licences," wrote a reporter for Tech Europe (February 2, 2001). Bouygues maintained that the exorbitant price demanded for the license, coupled with the expenses required to get up and running, would virtually bankrupt the entire European telecom industry, and he lodged a complaint with the European Commission. Although the company was under intense pressure, spending such a huge sum on unproven technology was, to Bouygues, sheer madness. On May 6, 2000, Bouygues wrote one of several highly critical letters warning the entire continent of the dangers of doing so. The letter appeared on the front page of Le Monde . In it Bouygues said that many telecom providers faced a no-win situation: Either they quit the business, as a result of not bidding for a license, or they buy the license and drown in a sea of debt. An article in BusinessWeek quoted from that letter: "What should I tell my employees?… That we have a choice between a sudden death and a slow one?" (June 3, 2002). <br /><br />Bouygues's warnings went unheeded, but in 2002 his prediction came to fruition when 3G technology stumbled due to poor timing and a range of other issues. Investors became nervous, stocks plummeted, and financial losses hurt many of Europe's largest telecommunication companies. "Europe's phone giants—after spending half a trillion dollars on licenses, acquisitions, and networks—are treading madly to stay afloat in a sea of debt … Deutsche Telekom is sitting on $60 billion in liabilities and casting about frantically for assets to sell," wrote the author of the BusinessWeek article (June 3, 2002). All Bouygues had to do was wait. "To entice him to even bid for a license, the French government had to slash the fees from $4.4 billion to $557 million," noted the BusinessWeek reporter. In 2002 Bouygues pocketed a cut-price license and announced his intention to launch I-mode with technology licensed from the experienced and successful Japanese NTT DoCoMo. Bouygues promised the company not to disclose the cost. "Bouygues now plans to roll out his new network—slowly," commented the BusinessWeek reporter. According to an article on the ANANOVA Web Site, when questioned about his lengthy stonewalling, Bouygues merely said, "I regret nothing." He commented that without his standoff, the government would not have cut prices. By May 2004 the I-mode service had become hugely successful, amassing more than 666,000 customers. "The company remains true to its philosophy of offering high-quality services that are easy to use, practical and affordable," Bouygues wrote in his corporate profile on the Bouygues Web site.Purgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-53377673356494450322012-02-07T09:29:24.118+01:002012-02-07T09:29:24.118+01:00OK, here are some articles from Reuters and other ...OK, here are some articles from Reuters and other important news agencies about Bouygues, ONLY CANDIDATE FOR CONCESION. Let me also remind you how good contract for Istria Y was with Bouygues (we have to pay some 5 billion kunas for that).<br /><br />Quote:<br />Bouygues built many white marble buildings in the numerous sites of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, where hundreds of houses of local residents were demolished before to clear the places for construction. Reportedly, the view of the ordinary residential apartments close to the presidential palace annoyed Turkmenbashy, the deceased dictator of Turkmenistan, who wanted the city to look like a "paradise". Most of the expelled residents did not get any housing instead or only got empty patches of land or, in the best case, inferior apartments in cheap outskirt areas. Those who dared to protest almost always faced sanctions from the government. <br /><br />Bouygues has expanded its business in Turkmenistan recently, according to the WikiLeaks website, reviewed by the French newspaper Le Monde.<br /><br />During the global economic crisis of 2008, the company scaled back operations in most of the world, but had added 450 expatriate employees in Turkmenistan. The amount required to bribe the government to win a contract had increased, while the price of construction contracts is inflated by up to 30 percent to accommodate the bribes to everyone from the smallest subcontractor to top government officials. The French Embassy has tried to distance itself from Bouygues. <br /><br />Bouygues exposed itself to big risk in Turkmenistan because it relies on a single client, the government. The company is thus vulnerable to liquidity problems. A former French diplomat based in Ashgabat, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer stated that Bouygues built about 50 buildings in the city, amounting to over 2 billion euros.Purgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-61557077852082215832012-02-07T02:34:40.279+01:002012-02-07T02:34:40.279+01:00Ajmo da ban purgera onda haha.... just kidding, pu...Ajmo da ban purgera onda haha.... just kidding, pusti coveka na miru nek pise sta oce. Valjda zivimo u demokratiji!!!pig vs cownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-10255400927580098122012-02-06T23:11:07.487+01:002012-02-06T23:11:07.487+01:00ljudi, ne nasjedajte na "pametovanja" bl...ljudi, ne nasjedajte na "pametovanja" bloggera pod nickom purger. covjek nema veze s avijacijom, a na ovom blogu se predstavlja kao sveznalica na svakoj temi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-13982206285452809322012-02-06T12:08:56.807+01:002012-02-06T12:08:56.807+01:00Jesus Christ Purger -
it must have been a bad con...Jesus Christ Purger - <br />it must have been a bad contract- that's all. <br /><br />OU and ZLZ have a good chance to make things right. In fact, we are lucky that French are interested in developing business. Lucky, as they are used to seeing strikes at ADP - something that scared all other concessioners off.<br /><br />The other day I spoke with a person who was a member of the team that prepared financial model. That person said that the reason why most others quit was the fact that Barajas is getting ready to be given under concession. The other reason has to do with fixed operational expenses (komunalna naknada and personnel costs). French are luckily used to sindicalists and their ridiculous "rights". all relevant people in croatian airline and airport industry claim that most people working at ZLZ are hinhly unqualified, yet have astronomical privileges etc.<br /><br />You are matkovic's lobbist - so you are totally irrelevant to say anything on concession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-71310444187435966382012-02-06T10:26:52.694+01:002012-02-06T10:26:52.694+01:00Blago meni, evo kako se "uspjesan" model...Blago meni, evo kako se "uspjesan" model koncesije/privatizacije izjalovio protiv Madjarske.<br /><br />Reuters javlja kako jos uvijek nije jasno kolike ce kompenzacije madjarska vlada morati dati vlasnicima, tj. 75-godisnjim koncesionarima na ZL Budimpesta zbog prestanka letenja Maleva. Maksimalan iznos bi mogao ici cak do 1,5 milijardi EUR, no vlada tvrdi da ce iznos biti bitno manji, te nastoji isto smanjiti dolaskom LCC. Istime trazi od svih relevantnih institucija, da ukoliko ne mogu iznaci cjelovito rjesenje (nova nacionalna kompanija, ekvivalentna baza drugog prijevoznika is.) da hitno pokrenu bilateralne pregovore sa sto vecim brojem stranih kompanija.<br /><br />Da rezimiramo:<br /><br />1. Malev bankrotira (prvenstveno jer drzava ne smije ulagati u svoj strateski alat)<br /><br />2. Madjarska gubi stratesku prednost jer se 20-23 linije, prvenstvno prema JI Europi, nece nikada pokrenuti, te time prestaje biti srediste regije.<br /><br />3. Madjarska vlada zbog svega toga mora kompenzirati koncesionaru iznos do 1,5 milijardi EUR - dakle ne moze taj novac investirati u svoju nacionalnu kompaniju da bi ispunjavala strateski interes, ali moze dati privatniku koji ce "izgubiti" profit na zracnoj luci (zar rizik poslovanja nije sastavni dio investicije)<br /><br />Kako sada nitko ne postavlja pitanje kakav je to ugovor, zasto se sada privatniku trpaju dzepovi? I ovdje je potpisan jednako nepovoljan ugovor, kao i u slucaju Abramovica, ugovor kojim se drzavni novac prelijeva u privatne dzepove, kojim se naknadjuje neciji gubitak profita, lose poslovanje... Hoce li i sada Europska komsija traziti povrat tog novca ili proglasiti ugovor nistavnim? Ili "liberalna ekonomija" vrijedi samo kada se radi o Rusima i Neeuropejcima, a zanemaruje se kada se radi o "braci" iz Europske Unije. Mene su ucili da se to zove diskriminacija.<br /><br />Eto, jos jednih kojima je "slucajno" pala sjekira pala u med bankrotom Maleva. No, jos bitnije je kako je koncesija "odlicna stvar za drzavu", pa je svakako treba primjeniti i u Zagrebu..Purgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-15646854851235680412012-02-06T09:31:12.951+01:002012-02-06T09:31:12.951+01:00Great! Hopefully they'll go daily soon :)Great! Hopefully they'll go daily soon :)SuisseOuestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-12844684398491834902012-02-06T00:54:00.837+01:002012-02-06T00:54:00.837+01:00That's fantastic. Love this route. But, I no...That's fantastic. Love this route. But, I notice that their prices are way up suddenlyDoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13750264332218469530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-64547931366882326122012-02-05T20:12:16.853+01:002012-02-05T20:12:16.853+01:00thank ypu very much for information. I hope so tha...thank ypu very much for information. I hope so that i will get my money back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-71631903079909251912012-02-05T18:36:09.697+01:002012-02-05T18:36:09.697+01:00What both JU and OU should do in the wake of MA...What both JU and OU should do in the wake of MA's collapse instead of opening BEG/ZAG to BUD is capacity increase to SKP and SJJ to pick up transit passengers. If they were wise enough, they could divide markets and let OU focusing to SJJ and JU to SKP and that's it<br /><br />And while BUD is being converted into lcc hub my concern is if T1 at BUD has enough capacity to accept such a huge increase, since all lcc use T1FlyingJacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-45767078860566758612012-02-05T18:32:10.951+01:002012-02-05T18:32:10.951+01:00good news finally!good news finally!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-2603928347933806332012-02-05T18:27:34.223+01:002012-02-05T18:27:34.223+01:00Malev is government owned.
EU law says every airli...Malev is government owned.<br />EU law says every airline or its owner has to pay back ticket if airline goes bancrupt !<br />They have a fond filled with money to pay back money to passengers !<br />Dont let you fool by agency which bought you a ticket !<br />You have right to get your money backAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-33624767290636919212012-02-05T18:25:05.361+01:002012-02-05T18:25:05.361+01:00Btw from the official Sky Work website: Average ca...Btw from the official Sky Work website: Average cabin occupancy was 50%, with the exception of London City and Belgrade averaging at 77% and 76% respectively.PRAGucnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-67307706941967857552012-02-05T18:14:59.369+01:002012-02-05T18:14:59.369+01:00OT:
Sky Work Airlines in Summer 2012 season is fur...OT:<br />Sky Work Airlines in Summer 2012 season is further boosting frequencies on Bern - Belgrade route, with service increase to 4 weekly, starting 24 June:<br /><br />SX700 1135BRN-1335BEG 1267 EQV<br />SX701 1405BEG-1610BRN 1267 EQVJU500https://www.blogger.com/profile/01855136215721390300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-11595113131804352942012-02-05T17:39:13.963+01:002012-02-05T17:39:13.963+01:00zatvoren je davnih dana taj ured, ja sam kartu kup...zatvoren je davnih dana taj ured, ja sam kartu kupio u putnickoj agenmciji i tamo sam njih odmah u petak kontaktirao i oni su mi rekli da trenuitno imaju info samo za karte do 29.2 a za poslije nista ne znaju...<br />ja sam prvi put u oovakvoj situaciji i pojma nemam sta cu da radim...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-21320208456552695172012-02-05T17:38:37.737+01:002012-02-05T17:38:37.737+01:00JU's routes are unprofitable because huge fixe...JU's routes are unprofitable because huge fixed costs related to oversized number of employees are attributed to them.<br /><br />Another thing that most people don't understand is that all these routes are correlated, and so if you cut e.g. flights to SKP, basically mostly generating feeder traffic, you will loose these passengers for London, Paris or Moscow flights also. The same applies for other routes generating significant feeder traffic like TGD, SJJ or TIV, often being cited as "not profitable", which is again mostly due to these fixed costs having little to do directly with demand and yields on those routes.<br /><br />Generally thinking, one can hardly imagine flying 70-80% loaded turboprops with average fare of like 115-130 EUR being unprofitable...MDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-12028054018867802952012-02-05T17:12:25.832+01:002012-02-05T17:12:25.832+01:00Malev je imao ured u Westin-u u Zagrebu, nezma da ...Malev je imao ured u Westin-u u Zagrebu, nezma da li ga još ima ali ako da možda tamo dobiješ odgovor!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-49593367037493811832012-02-05T17:04:23.385+01:002012-02-05T17:04:23.385+01:00Olynpic will send A319 tommorow also.
Does anybody...Olynpic will send A319 tommorow also.<br />Does anybody know Olumpic airlines loads to and from BEG?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-61262126385255006012012-02-05T16:54:07.609+01:002012-02-05T16:54:07.609+01:00Imam povratni let Maleva za april mjesec. Zna li i...Imam povratni let Maleva za april mjesec. Zna li iko sta ce biti, da li cu sve izgubiti ili ce mi vratiti pare ili ce me prebukirati ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263744212273266286.post-18546732347503558202012-02-05T16:54:02.091+01:002012-02-05T16:54:02.091+01:00Actually, I would really want to know what routes ...Actually, I would really want to know what routes are profitable and which ones aren't. Okay i get that flying to Paris, London, Moscow, Amsterdam is profitable, and someone mentioned that TGD, SKP, SJJ are not? Frankly I dont see why TGD is not profitable?PRAGucnoreply@blogger.com