Belgrade Airport investing millions in upgrades
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport has resumed its fifty million euro reconstruction and expansion project with the airport to shift attention to transit passengers. The airport says the reconstruction of its terminal two gates as well as transit areas in both terminals will resume soon with a consortium of Serbian companies to carry out the work. A total of 2.304 square metres will be refurbished and another 311 square metres added to the terminal buildings. The project will see the overhaul of C3 to C6 gates which will mark the completion of its terminal two reconstruction, since other gates have already been expanded. The new look transit areas will feature new shops operated by Swiss retailer Dufry. Work on the expansion will be completed by March 17, 2014.
With Serbia’s busiest airport seeing double digit passenger growth so far in November, the airport is set to put more emphasis on transit passengers which are increasingly using its services due the new business concept undertaken by its main customer Air Serbia. The airport has recently purchased and replaced all seating in its terminal building. The new leather seats featuring USB ports and power sockets have been purchased from German manufacturer Kusch+co at a price of 96.409 euros. In addition, the airport is in the process of finalising the replacement of six air bridges being installed at gates A1 to A5 and C6. Work is to be completed by December 18. The price tag of the six air bridges totals 2.1 million euros.
So far this year Belgrade Airport has invested significant amounts in expanding its facilities. In September the airport expanded its terminal two apron by adding 26.000 square metres and has also built new jetways. The expanded apron has the ability to serve several small regional aircraft or four Boeing 737-800s or two Boeing 747-400s. The airport’s entire expansion project is scheduled for completion in two years time with its largest investment, the construction of an additional floor above terminal two, expected to commence next year. The airport also plans to construct a small VIP terminal. All reconstruction work on terminal one will be up to Air Serbia after it was determined the terminal is owned by the carrier. Belgrade Airport’s current two terminal buildings cover an area of 51.000 square metres and have the capacity to handle eight million passengers per year. This year is set to be its busiest on record.
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Belle Air suspended flights yesterday afternoon.
It is indeed interesting that November growth was so strong. Let's hope they keep it up. In two weeks we will have five new destination and B&H Airlines so let's hope they help push Belgrade airport numbers even further up.
It will be interesting to see how this impacts PRN December 2013 numbers, especially since Belle Air was their number one operator. I guess these are good news for Split as they have even more chances of being number three.
I think the A320 order was news of the month (even year) but this is definitely breaking news. Well, at least Adria can place its Airbus fleet here. ;)
All aircraft registred in UAE have A6 (not only Etihad). For Serbia equvalent is YU.
JU is IATA code only for Air Serbia, so like I said, Air Serbia's flight, JU380, will operated by leased Etihad's A6-SAB is Air Serbia livery. Why are you so jealous?
So Belle Air Europe is working as it should at least?
What does this mean for Ex YU market? Do you see Ju or OU entering Albanian market soon? Only Adria is present over there.
On a related note, if AirSerbia moves to T1, does it make sense to make big investment in T2 transit area which is likely to be very underutilized?
Ryanair or Wizz Air, time will tell.
-- Charlie
Is pointing out the obvious, "trashing"?
I do hope that Air Serbia will lease Terminal 1 from the airport, and pay money to the airport for this transaction.
I note that you are unable or unwilling to answer the question.
This is my therapy
Well according to your therapy you're mentally ill
@anonymous 6.29 pm the airport doesn't claim, it indeed owns the complete airport building. jat airways/air serbia currently owes EUR30 mil and the bill is rising
@aca probably in the future but the next are apron level gates
I see it a lot on this blog and I'm genuinely curious.
Amazing how far BEG has come in the last 4-5 years.
Every and each day all flights are late. In those one month just 8 flights were on time. Every day several flights delay more than one hour some even few hours.
For example. Today all flights delay 982 minutes, and that is 16 hours and 22 minutes. That is average delay per each flight of 35 minutes. Worst delays today were:
JU170 TGD 2:22 hours
JU112 SJJ 2:15 hours
JU370 ZRH 1:58 hours
JU182 TIV 1:16 hours
JU380 LHR 1:09 hours
JU330 FRA 0:56 hours
And that is with 3 more planes (A319) so it is much easier to fly as they have spare planes in case of trouble. They could not settle catering problems for one month?
Guys that is huge problem. First of all I will choose some other company to fly as I can be 100% sure my flight will be delay and I can not afford that. Second, that is very bad for image of new company. I thing JAT= Joke About Time stays! And third that cost a lot of money. To come one hour after slot to LHR cost huge amount of money
By the way, the departure time listed and the "Odleteo u " time are naturally different. The departure time is the time plane pushes back from the gate (this is universally what departure time is taken to mean). The "odleteo u " time is the time the plane actually lifted off. It has to be later. For example, JU404 to Copenhagen scheduled for 17:55 took off at 18:11. You cannot be counting that as a delay. I see the major delays you are talking about, but where do you get "all flights" were delayed?
U svakom slučaju vrlo loše za nakon mjesec dana letenja. Očito se ne mogu nositi sa ovim "novim" sustavom "cateringa". A što će tek biti kada padne snijeg...
Maybe the problem is more with the information policy of Belgrade airport than with Air Serbia?
Somehow i get this impression seeing Beg.aero publishing codeshares that do probably not exist (JP with JU) and not even mentioning others (JU with AB).
We all remember Ex-Yu Aviation reporting about the codeshare with Air Berlin...
According Beg.aero they do not exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_cancellation_and_delay
From what I've seen on this website and other aviation forums, that 15-minute window is also used when calculating airlines' on-time performance.
Based on that, this is how Air Serbia's arriving flights performed (10 out of 27 flights were late, of those 10, 7 were half an hour or more late):
1. JU405 1:04 late
2. JU305 On time
3. JU507 Early
4. JU657 Early
5. JU171 2:12 late
6. JU541 Early
7. JU801 22 minutes late
8. JU371 1:51 late
9. JU321 On time
10. JU411 On time
11. JU311 On time
12. JU651 Early
13. JU113 2:02 late
14. JU173 Early
15. JU331 30 minutes late
16. JU163 on time
17. JU183 54 minutes late
18. JU523 early
19. JU381 1:18 minutes late
20. JU513 27 minutes late
21. JU175 on time
22. JU535 26 minutes late
23. JU605 on time
24. JU375 on time
25. JU405 early
26. JU305 on time
27. JU315 on time
Of course no late flights are good, but 22 is not the same as 10. And whether you like the 15-minute grace period that applies to the definition or not, that's what the definition is and is used across the industry.
I don't know why BEG shows both the departure time and take-off time. That's not really the point. Flights that leave the gate at the scheduled time are flights that have left on time.
Just out of curiosity, which flight had a lf of 20%? Thanks.
On a more serious note, if you want to count it like that then you have to subtract 5 to 8 minutes from the delay which is the taxing time from the gate to the runway. Airlines count in the taxing time into the 'flying time'. Don't confuse them.