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| Adria leasing CRJ700 for Polish operations |
Slovenia’s national carrier, Adria Airways, has announced plans to open a base in the Polish city of Lodz next year. The airline launched services from Poland’s third largest city to Munich during the 2014 summer season and maintains six weekly flights on the route. Adria’s CEO, Mark Anžur, says the carrier will lease a Bombardier CRJ700 aircraft, which will be stationed at Lodz, and will double its flights to the Bavarian capital next summer season. Furthermore, Adria will inaugurate a daily service from the Polish city to Amsterdam. Lodz is Adria’s second destination in Poland following Warsaw. In addition, Adria is considering commencing subsidised flights from Bydgoszcz, in Poland’s north, to Germany during the 2015 summer season. The CRJ700 has the capacity to seat up to 78 passengers.
In a recent interview, CEO Anžur, said, “Strategically we want to be a European carrier and not only a Slovenian carrier. We are embracing internationalisation. There are many reasons for this. One of them being that the Slovenian market is very limited. Through this segment of our strategy, we expect a 5% increase in our passenger numbers. The Bombardier is an ideal aircraft for regional routes because it acts as an alternative to low cost airlines which can’t make a profit on certain flights with larger Airbus aircraft”. Adria’s expansion into Poland comes only days after the Slovenian carrier announced it would launch several new routes from its bases in Ljubljana and Tirana in 2015.
Adria has had a successful year so far with the addition of two leased CRJ900 NextGen aircraft to its fleet, the launch of several new routes and growth in both passenger and revenue numbers. In addition, this summer, the European Commission found that state aid provided to the Slovenian carrier between 2007 and 2011, to the tune of 79.6 million euros, was in line with European Union regulations. “Our aim is to carry as many satisfied passengers as possible. In the first eight months of the year, just under 740.000 people chose to travel with us, which is up 5% on last year”, CEO Anžur says. He adds, “Results suggest that this year we are on course to, once again, surpass the million passenger milestone, which is further confirmation that we have chosen the right business strategy”. During the first three quarters, Adria carried 712.836 passengrs to and from the Slovenian capital, up 3% on last year. The busiest routes out of its main hub in Ljubljana were Frankfurt and Zurich.
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NS|SAN
https://www.behance.net/gallery/12704011/Adria-Airways-rebranding-concept
Also, what has Air Serbia got to do with it? Or are you implying that he has to be a Serb to trash talk?
Must be better seating in noisy Dash 8 airplane for 2,5 hours than 1,5 in CRJ9.
And your comment is specially funny as both planes have the same fuselage diameter =DDD
Pessimists were right, decision on "how to expand" airport pushed back to mid-2015. Language does not include "sale" or "concession" any more.
On the flip side, both terminal capacity increase and second runway are still in scope.
Source: http://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/srbija.php?yyyy=2014&mm=11&dd=13&nav_id=923269
Slovenians!
And who profits from Adria...
Everybody except Slovenians.
But who cares about the stupid taxpayers.
The issue here is that the government is going broke and they need this source of income, that's the thing.
NS|SAN
One way to solve this is to align interests of prospective EU investor with interests of BEG airport and Air Serbia, similar to what apparently Hogan did with Benetton family when aligning goals and interests for Alitalia/Etihad with Rome FCO.
Let’s assume some EU operator (like ADR) would then be joined by minority investor from UAE to help build out BEG (terminal, runway etc) and then operate airport under say, 30 year lease/concession and share the revenue. That should help clear the roadblock.
Adria Airways benefitted from three public capital injections in 2007, 2009 and 2010, amounting to around €15.2 million in total, carried out through the state-owned holding Posebna družba za podjetniško svetovanje d.d. (PDP) and its predecessor Kapitalska druzba d.d. (KAD), respectively.
and so on and on ...
the money given to Wizz its peanuts in comparison to this. Nice try!
Apples and oranges.
NS|SAN
LOT ima bolji tretman od star alliance nego OU .
Zalosno je sto ADR ucestvuje u svemu tome ali to sad moraju da vrate LH. A koliko CR7 ce dobiti i oceli jedan biti stacioniran u LJU :)
INN-NS
Ako ASL ne nabavi svoje onda u igru ulazi 9W koji ce leteti BOM-BEG-ORD-BEG-BOM sa 77W ili 789 posto ce leteti npr za EY BOM-AUH-SFO sa 77W.
Ma da ja mislim da ce ASL ipak leteti svojim avionom vidimo se na letu za ORD vec 2015 godine ;)
INN-NS
He did not mean that Slovenia is not in ex-YU but that the article is irrelevant since Poland is not... and neither is Germany! None of these expansions in Poland have to do with the Balkans or even ex-YU.
https://scontent-a-vie.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1782081_385630701589928_4744013149464671430_n.jpg?oh=573f720174316f23d3c9a893a76d882f&oe=551CCE6B
Sad se pocinje sa rasturanjem CTN i pomocu AF-KLM koja ima prepredobre odnose sa EY:
INN-NS
Pa ja iz Innsbrucka platim busom-kombijem povratnu kartu 140 Eur a ovo za moskvu je prejeftino :)
INN-NS
NS|SAN
A 2015 ASL ce leteti za USA-SAD dali wide body avionima iz alliance ili svojima ali ja znam da ce ti letovi biti isplativi jako za njih samo sto neki ne zele to da se bas desi ASL ali nema veze :)
I ja bi voleo isto da lete za LAX ali to neverujem da ce 2015 ali ce 2016 :)
INN-NS
By the way, Montenegro Airlines is also a Yugoslav airline and so is Aviogenex.
Actually, JU's version is kind of more honest, because putting "već" in front of their more expensive destinations (i.e. CDG or SVO) doesn't make much sense. But hey, what do I know, that's marketing.
I fly OS Dash to VIE pretty regularly and the one plane I dislike even more is the ATR, for its speed only. Feel of the cabin is entirely the same, if not worse in Q400...
Has a lot to do with the pitch back then and of course always terrible LF from VIE (from the pax standpoint, that is :) ), but still, I have a strong preference for CRJs.
Not saying there's anything wrong with the current design, but if they're considering a change, this really looks good.
OU as it is is offering little choice out of Zagreb, we need more carriers that can cover most of Europe and the EU in particular, perhaps Tradeair can play a significant role in this. Air Croatia sounds too dodgy to be serious operator.
you cannot compare flying to travelling by bus. For someone who is supposed to be 'smart', that was a stupid comment.
'Od' and 'vec od' are technically the same thing.
I always love it when people on here immediately attack others as being Serbs or fans of Air Serbia. lol
This newspaper is selling this news
http://www.finance.si/8812867/Adria-spet-v-te%C5%BEavah-nima-za-pla%C4%8De
First hand unofficial information: Working climate within the company at an all time low. They don't have money to pay last month's salaries in full. They will maybe be able to pay for their employee's social & health insurance. Contributions to earnings might be paid by the end of month. Maybe! They don't have money to pay pilot's per-diems.
On top of that the company still owes several millions of Euros to SloveniaControl - Slovenian ATC agency. They owe I-don't-know-how-much millions of Euros to Petrol - Slovenian oil & gas company that delivers & sells them kerosine.
In December there will be a decision making to sell additional aircraft just to lease them back. This is yet another accounting gymnastics to keep the numbers in green or at least in black.
They've sunk so low they're now hiring college students to work as flight attendants; see for yourself:
https://www.adria.si/sl/o-druzbi/zaposlitve/odprti-razpisi
This is a official recruitment campaign for new CCM published on their official website. By Slovenian labour legislation it's more than 40% cheaper (before tax) to employ students via student contract instead of employing them as full-time workers. This is a national disgrace.
By the end of summer / beginning of autumn additional pilots left the company. As a consequence they had to quickly launch another recruitment campaign last month, just to employ new pilots to keep all the CRJs crewed and manned. Info I'm having is the top brass within company are planning of starting Pay to fly schemes for new-joining pilots in 2015.
Currently within EU, in the ME and the Far East it's a pilot's market, so lots of opportunities to be had ... If however I'd still be working for them at this point, I'd start polishing my CV and sending it out to other companies.
It's now official: This outfit is a house of cards. A sinking ship.
http://www.rtvslo.si/news-in-english/adria-did-not-respond-to-passenger-calls-they-had-to-spend-the-night-at-the-airport/350360
Adria Airway was not ready to cover their accommodation costs.
As I understand if there is a weather delay at least hotel accomodation, food and transportation to/from airport plus phone calls and similar miscelaneous must be provided.
Pax sleeping in aiport no hotel receipts nothing to pay.
What a joke.
Adria is part of Star Alliance.
Tell me pl. that this bad news i't not true???