Etihad visits Jat and its subsidiaries
Etihad Airways will today begin final takeover talks with Jat Airways as it looks to acquire a 49% stake in the airline. A three member delegation from the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates will arrive in Belgrade today where they will meet with the acting CEO of Jat Velibor Vukašinović. Furthermore, Etihad will hold talks with officials at Jat Tehnika, Jat Catering and SU-PORT (Jat’s ground handling division). In addition, talks will be held with Jat’s fuel provider NIS (The Petroleum Industry of Serbia). From June 15, Jat will begin selling Etihad Airways tickets to cities where the Serbian carrier will place its flight numbers. Tickets will also be available for purchase on Jat’s website.
According to the Serbian daily “Politika”, Etihad will take over the airline on July 1. However, it will officially begin running the carrier from September 1, following the end of the peak summer season. Due to a lack of aircraft, Jat’s summer is unlikely to be a success with a decrease in both passenger numbers and an increase in losses anticipated. In order to avoid being associated with negative trends, Etihad would take control of the airline from September. Etihad is to name its own CEO for Jat while the President of the airline will be named by the Serbian government, which will continue to hold a majority 51% stake. Mr. Vukašinović notes that talks with Etihad are progressing and are “excellent”.
Meanwhile, Jat’s fleet situation is improving after another Boeing 737 joined the fleet over the weekend following regular technical checks. The airline now has one Boeing 737-200, six Boeing 737-300s and two ATR 72s operating in its fleet with another ATR72 and B737-300 to join in two weeks. “We want to end the previous management’s practice of cancelling and delaying flights”, Mr. Vukašinović said to the “Tanjug” newsagency yesterday. He added, “Talks for the lease of two Airbus A319s from Adria Airways are in their final stages and we plan to lease a ATR72 soon”.
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Does anyone know which 733 entered the service now and which one is scheduled to enter in two weeks from now?
Такође.
Just one thing is fine.
obviously not...
But, that's something to envy?
allright then. You identify with strange things, I'll say.
http://tangosix.rs/2013/03/06/magija-novog-rukovodstva-jata/
I will not even comment on the hateful article posted on aviokarta.net
2. In March Commission told us:
- 6 planes from end of March, 2 A320, 2 A319, 2 ATR 72
In April same Commission told us:
- no A320, ATR 72 will come first, A319 will be leased from Adria, type rating will start in end of April
In May Commission start to make excuses:
- no A320, no free ATR 72 (what is so not true), problems with Adria A319 leasing concerning state guarantee,
In June Jat make eve more excuses, and situation in 3rd JUNE is:
- no A320
- no ATR 72, but now again one will come - WHAN? In September, and what fore than?
- A319 negotiation with Adria is in final stage - FOR WHAN? IT IS NOT JUST YOU TAKE IT IN TOMOROW THEY START TO FLY! WHAT IS TRUE THOSE PLANES WILL COME AND WHAN, OR NOT?
- Type rating did not start in April, not even in May, and as we can see, not even in June
So, that is all typical bullshit, typical Jatovanje.
And I am not writing this because I am against Serbia or Jat, but I am against dilettantes from Jat management, and people who believe in fairytales.
Then again, the tour operator you work for is plain stupid if they went and signed a deal with Jat for the summer season, after what we witnessed what happened last summer. So it's not Jat who is a fool, it's rather you.
It's a heavy shame for Serbia it can't help its national airline leasing some planes. Even Bosnia managed to bring BH Airlines on feet..Not to mention Bulgaria has several charter airlines bringing dozens of foreign tourists. And again money is not the problem- the problem is the widespread dissinterest and boli me ***ac mentality towards everything that is from social business interest.
Adria was it's last hope for relief this year.
TAV Macedonia reports 27% increase in the number of passengers in May
According to the statistical data by the operator of the Macedonian Airports, TAV Macedonia, the number of transported passengers who traveled via both Macedonian airports increased by 27% compared to last year. 87.992 passengers in total flew via Skopje Airport, whereas the number of passengers via Ohrid Airport amounted to 8.337, making 96.329 passengers in total.
In the first five months of 2013, there was an increase of 16.4% compared to the previous year, with 365.358 passengers in total. The number of flights (i.e. movements) increased as well. 4564 movements have been recorded since January, which is an increase of 6.9% compared to the same period in 2012, whereas the increase of May is much more significant. i.e. 19.8% more movements compared to the same month last year.
The increase is a result of the introduction of new routes by the low-cost carrier Wizz Air, the increase of the frequencies of some of the regular carriers, but also due to the elections which were held in Macedonia.
The most popular destination from Skopje Airport in May and in the previous months since January was Istanbul, followed by Vienna, Zurich, London and Ljubljana. Most of the passengers chose the low-cost carrier Wizz Air, followed by Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Adria Airways and Pegasus Airlines.
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I just had my flight at 0800 Thursday morning from Belgrade to Tivat moved to 0730 on Friday morning. I had previously booked a return trip from Vienna to Tivat. Therefore I have booked myself a ticket on Montenegro Airlines 0935 flight instead. So, I am going to ring Jat in the morning and enquire about a refund for this MA flight. Has anyone had experiences like this and did you get a refund.
Any advice would be appreicated.
Fairytales again, again and again.
Fleet shortage is a problem that has a solution:
temporary discontinue service on routes that are unprofitable
like IST,BRU,TXL and Scandinavia for example.
But no Jat cancels flights here and there that in the end every flight is a candidate for cancelation-no reliability at all.That Etihad story is only invented by the government to distract from the fact that Jat is following the path of Malev already this year.
take a look after the mess Jat Airways is!
Every news about screenings and talks with the Serbian government
are in fact lies and actually have never happened.
A lot of contacts were established during the last few months, with daily basis telephone and mail contacts, EY having access to JU financial database, a lot of questionnaire were filled by Jat employees which were sent from EY.