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| Transatlantic flights from Zagreb to launch this summer |
Charter carrier SkyGreece Airlines has confirmed the launch of transatlantic flights between Toronto and Zagreb. The new service, which will operate once per week from Canada’s largest city, will commence on Monday, June 22, with the return flight to be operated two days later, on June 24. A full schedule is expected to be published by the airline soon. Services will operate until October 15 with a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft, which has the capacity to seat 274 passengers. The news comes less than two weeks after the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) issued SkyGreece Airlines a license to operate services between Canada and European Union member states.
Commenting on the new route launch, SkyGreece’s Deputy Chief Commercial Officer, Dennis Codere, said, “We shared our vision with the Zagreb Tourist Board, the Croatian National Tourist Board and Zagreb International Airport to make Canada closer to Zagreb and Croatia and we were extremely happy with the openness and the enthusiasm they truly demonstrated in bringing Canadians to discover the beauty of Croatia. We can assure all Canadians that Croatia is waiting for you with its rich history, beautiful scenery, young and active population, trendy lifestyle and the beautiful Adriatic Sea to discover”. He added, “This new direct flight to Toronto will allow families to see each other more often and Croatians can now also discover the beauty and richness of Canada”. The charter specialist has agreed on a joint marketing approach with the Croatian National Tourism Board in Canada in order to attract more Canadian tourists to the flights.
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| Cabin view of SkyGreece's B767-300ER |
The Croatian Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs negotiated the new route late last year, with talks initiated by the Croatian Ambassador to Canada, Veselko Grubišić. The planned new service will mark the resumption of flights between Zagreb and Canada’s largest city in seven years. Skyservice Airlines previously operated the route once per week on a seasonal summer basis for two years, in 2007 and 2008, with a Boeing 757 jet. SkyGreece is a Greek-registered airline set up by expats living in Canada with offices in Toronto, Montreal and Athens. It will operate three weekly flights from Toronto to Athens and a one weekly service to Thessaloniki from May 18 and 20 respectively. Furthermore, the carrier will run a weekly service from Montreal to the Greek capital. SkyGreece Airlines says it will offer Canadian travellers “an alternative to discover Europe with a touch of the renowned Greek hospitality”. It is in the process of acquiring a second aircraft.
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Also that cabin looks pretty good.
Good luck to SkyGreece. I wish them great success.
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Wizz Air said that it has achieved a 23.5pc increase in revenue to €727.3m, a 37.2pc increase in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and rentals on operating leases to €254.8m in the last six months and pre-tax profits of €158.1m.
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The key message: Pre-tax profits of 158m EUR.
Air Serbia hiring crew
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Air Serbia adds Seoul codeshare
Monday, January 26, 2015
Air Serbia adds Vietnam codeshare
Monday, January 19, 2015
Air Serbia adds Singapore codeshare
Thursday, January 15, 2015
B) You won't see much news from the airline until the end of this month, before it presents its financial results. Would you prefer for me to make something up?
This is a confidence/morale booster type of post...
Within last 12 months ZAG has so far managed to either realize and/or announce confirmed flights/airlines as follows:
- KLM
- Eurolot
- Air Serbia
- FlyDubai
- Swiss
- Brusseles Airlines
+ a series of "smaller" contributing routes that are nonetheless significant:
- Korean (frequency increase, 2014)
- Onur Air/Correndon (Frequency increase 2014)
- European Coastal Airlines (Rab)
- Trade Air/OU to Osijek/Rijeka
- Vueling, seasonal to Rome,
- Vueling, flight period extension (May, October) to Barcelona
- SkyGreece, flights to Toronto
- Montenegro, flights to Podgorica and CPH
- Air Croatia to Milan, Prague, Rome and Budapest - still not fully convinced they'll start, however they show "serios" signs of serios intention (FB "refer a friend" campaign, 100 free tickets), bookable/searchable through Skyscanner
Not sure if I have left anything out - but to me looks like a promising year for ZAG :)
The airline has been contacted, the airline has a no interview policy, the airline doesn't want to reveal anything before late February/early March.
Sa tim me sigurno necete izprovocirati ;)
Trebaju doci 6-7 Aviona i da vidimo kako su prosli pregovori sa Kinezima.
INN-NS
http://www.putovnica.net/vijesti/hrvatska/skygreece-s-izravnim-letovima-zagreb-toronto-krece-22-lipnja-karte-uskoro-u-prodaji
2014: 135.758
2015: 150.667, + 11%
# of flights, +9%
I am curious to see February, the airline cancelled many, many flights as a result of catastrophic loads. Let's wait and see how 2015 turns out to be.
One thing that's for sure is that this summer are going to have a month with 600.000+ passengers!!
previously I commented that anything less than 8% would be a disappointment. so these figures are very good for Zagreb. I am expecting 10% growth for the year but to achieve 11% during what is traditionally slow month is great to see and if we see plus 10 for February too than I would not be surprised if we see closer to 15% total growth for 2015!
previously I commented that anything less than 8% would be a disappointment. so these figures are very good for Zagreb. I am expecting 10% growth for the year but to achieve 11% during what is traditionally slow month is great to see and if we see plus 10 for February too than I would not be surprised if we see closer to 15% total growth for 2015!
JU 113 from SJJ
JU 643 from OTP
JU 553 from IST
AZ 594 from FCO
http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Ekonomija/532063/Beogradski-aerodrom-u-januaru-povecao-broj-putnika-14-odsto
so, to conclude: an airport needs to have an increased number of flights that provide a solid base for growth in winter, while propelling a higher growth rate in the summer - due to better LF of those flights. So yes, these percentages may easily go up from 11% to 16-17% or more, it depends... to me it seems that they can as many flights were not even 50% full in ZAG this January...
Bosnian Wand Airlines ostao bez dozvola za letove
http://www.aviokarta.net/vesti/2940-bosnian-wand-airlines-ostao-bez-dozvola-za-letove/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCJhXO1G83w
INN-NS
great post as usual, thanx for updates.
@NemjeeFebruary 4, 2015 at 10:50 AM
I'll say what I say always, any good competition is good and healthy for airlines that are set in old ways.
OU must restructure and find its way, currently airline has 200 staff surplus, imho they need to be made redundant before 2015 is up,especially the upper management echelon. However, it is unlikely OU will be privatized this year, simply put its too short of a time and OU must restructure first before it is sold off, a 3rd year with profits will also give a signal to any would be buyer that OU is a safe bet.
Also Zagreb is greatly undeserved as a destination, plenty of fish in the ocean, OU will do fine no matter what happens.
This year Alitalia, SAS, Czech Air and Finnair should be coming to Zagreb if they see a potential in Zagreb. Alitalia and Czech Airlines have plans for return to Zagreb, SAS and Finnair might need to consider plans for Zagreb for Finland sent 62 000 tourist to Croatia in 2014 and 5500 of them actually visited Zagreb considering there's no direct link between two cities this is a major success imho.
SAS should be flying to Zagreb from Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo on a daily basis, why they aren't is anyone's guess, but I hope they'll consider Zagreb and start flights to Zagreb.
I mentioned above 4 companies cause Zagreb airport management is in talks with these 4 carriers and there might be some announcements in mid March or late April.
Czech Air seems certain to come this year in September or October, but talks are still ongoing and if financial situation inside CA improves they might start flights to Zagreb three times per week at first from September, but more likely they'll start from April 2016, we'll see. Alitalia is in same position as CA, but they might start flights to Zagreb this year. other two carriers are still in deep talks with Zagreb Airport Management and no news as to how these talks are going, but they might start flights sometimes next year if all goes well.
"Slovenia ... ...... ... which are also underdeveloped countries,"
Hm, Slovenia is developed country, if you meant to say they have underdeveloped air transport infrastructure, i wouldn't agree with that either, unless you meant underused not the capacity, sure there's plenty of more space, Ljubljana for its size should be handling around 5.5 million pax, and perhaps in 20 years it will handle that much, :)