Adria signs cooperation instead of codeshare agreement with Jordanian
Adria Airways has denied reports it has signed a codeshare partnership with rival Oneworld alliance member Royal Jordanian Airlines as originally reported by Slovenia’s national press agency “STA”, citing sources at the Jordanian national carrier. Original reports claimed Adria would place its “JP” designator code and flight numbers on Royal Jordanian services from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Munich, Paris, Vienna and Zurich to Amman and vice versa with the codeshare partnership to be in place until the end of the year. However, Adria says it has signed a cooperation agreement with Royal Jordanian under which it will provide connecting flights to passengers between Ljubljana and Jordan via the abovementioned cities.
Adria Airways currently has codeshares in place only with its fellow Star Alliance members and non-alliance carriers. Partnering up with an airline from a rival alliance would have come as a surprise. Royal Jordanian, which handles over three million passengers annually, has had little to no presence in the former Yugoslavia’s since it last operated flights to the country prior to its breakup. However, in 2008, Jordanian was one of three companies to send in a bid for a 49% stake in B&H Airlines. The airline’s bid was ranked second with a mark of 32.2 out of 100, behind Turkish Airlines which subsequently won the tender procedure.
Adria says its cooperation agreement with the Jordanian national carrier "will enable customers to enjoy more flexible routing options and mix and match flights on both carriers for the most convenient scheduling and best pricing”. Next Monday Adria’s recently signed codeshare agreement with Air Serbia will come into force with the Slovenian carrier placing its flight numbers and codes on the Ljubljana - Belgrade service. Adria says, “This codesharing agreement confirms the good business relations between these two airlines. We anticipate expanding our cooperation during the summer timetable to also include several other interesting routes”.
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Looks like visibility 250m and vertical at 200ft. Freezing fog.
flying coffin
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Source is confidential and, if possible, I would prefer comments based on aviation instead of expel-the-ambassador-and-declare-war-on-them.
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Source - Air Serbia employees
I know Croatia in 2013 had a record number of Scandinavian tourists, around 500k, but many cake with SAS/OU/NAS and all with smaller aircraft, B737/A320.
seeing B767 makes me wonder if this agency had great better bookings for 2014, leasing older B737 or A320 would be far cheaper than B767 which must be costing Air Croatia at least $2 million for 1 year lease.
I wonder if it was wet leased for only the summer months. I don't know what they would do with such a plane during the winter.
The VAR-IST flight is a little more suspicious. Luckily it is only four times a week, so it may not be too bad.
of course its for summer months, well starting April (this is when tourist season starts in Croatia and ends in late October).
April , May, September, October - podsezona this is when around 3 million visitors visit Croatia. and in full season another 9 million visitors visit Croatia.
November - February is the quiet period when only 500 000 visitors visit the country,
So most likely aircraft will be used from April to late October.
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I heard Sabiha is really nice, so maybe Pegasus could be an option for you if you are travelling to the Middle East. Other than that I guess Qatar and Etihad are the best choices out of Belgrade. Personally I am not a big fan of Aeroflot but a lot of people use them when heading to China, Japan or Thailand.
From Vancouver the choice is even more limited as you can chose from either Amsterdam or Frankfurt. I would tell you to go via Amsterdam since you will be flying on Air Serbia to Belgrade... on board the A320. :)
As far as San Francisco goes, go on either Swiss or Lufthansa. Swiss sends its A340 there while Lufthansa sends their A380 in summer. Both aircraft are quite interesting but I would rather chose the A340 as they are getting rarer by the day.
Tip, avoid Air France and CDG at all cost!
Prošle sedmice je neko pominjao ovdje nešto slično za ZAG tako da me to nebi iznenadilo.
Do you think that it is possible for JU to enter the long haul market? Can any new airline compete against the giants? I know Kondic said that he wants longhaul by 2016, but is it even possible for JU to make money by doing that? If they really wanted to do longhaul, why do they announce their intentions to other airlines? Wouldn't that give the other airlines a head start to prepare their responses?
I do not think Air Serbia is anywhere close to having any long-haul flights. Not before 2020, that's for sure. It's not just about having the passengers or the fleet, it's also about having a decent hub which can sustain this growth. As Air Serbia grows, Belgrade airport needs to grow with it. Sure, we are at the very beginning now and we are still in the initial phases of the development but if things remain as they are then the situation will be considerably different next year. However, the C platform renovations are coming along nicely. I think they already fixed the area around the gate C6 and they are around C4 and C5 now. They are also changing the façade from the outside so the airport will look more modern now. For the time being, this extra space will help with increased passenger flow.
Air Serbia is still undergoing restructuring and it will take at least a year before the airline can finish this process and consolidate its operations. One thing is for sure, without Etihad's involvement, Jat Airways would have been dead by now.
However, Air Serbia has many interesting news coming your way soon so stay tuned. :)
A better question still, why would they sign a $2 million lease for B767 aircraft? Could be more ,could be 4$ million lease.
Perhaps there's demand for seasonal flights to Croatia, I know SAS has loads of flights to Croatia, last summer SAS had 300+ flights to Croatia, this year they plan to have at least 350, than you have Norwegian with 500+ yearly flights to Croatia.
Air Croatia might be just playing in to this market share, clearly they see the market potential on Croatian seaside and trying to capitalize on renewed interest for Croatia in Scandinavia.
Again, with so many tourists every year OU has a huge advantage compared to all others and year after year they are failing to capitalize on it. Not that I'm big fan of OU but what a shame. I'm sure there are many Croats who could use a well paying airline job...