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| Aviogenex’s last aircraft on sale next week |
The auction of Aviogenex’s sole aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 jet, has been scheduled for next week following a judgment by Belgrade’s Basic Court made last summer. Aviogenex was found liable for outstanding debt owed towards Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport amounting to 200.000 euros. Since the payment has not been made, the bailiff has scheduled the aircraft’s sale, through a silent auction, for May 5, which would effectively bring about the end of what was once the former Yugoslavia’s busiest charter airline. Serbian media have stayed silent on the topic, with Aviogenex employees claiming the move is aimed at destroying the company, which was sent into liquidation by the government earlier this year despite interest from foreign investors.
Aviogenex’s 28 year-old Boeing 737-200, registered YU-ANP, is one of the last aircraft of its type produced by the US manufacturer and is younger than all four of Air Serbia’s Boeing 737-300 jets. The plane has been valued at 203.600 euros. The starting price for the May 5 auction will amount to 60% of the aircraft’s estimated value. If the auction is unsuccessful, a second round of bidding will take place, with the starting price to be set at no less than 30% of the estimated value of the aircraft. Aviogenex last operated flights during the 2013/14 winter season on behalf of Westair Benin to which it leased its aircraft, pilots, crew and maintenance staff. The jet returned to Belgrade in early 2014 and has been grounded ever since. In previous years, the airline operated on behalf of Jat Airways during the peak summer months, as the Serbian national carrier faced a chronic fleet shortage. Ironically, millions were invested in the aircraft’s overhaul just several years ago.
Prior to the break-up of Yugoslavia, Aviogenex was the busiest charter airline in the country, handling over half a million passengers per year in the late 1980s. However, the carrier has fallen on hard times. It counts 39 employees, which includes pilots, cabin crew, ground engineers and flight dispatchers, which have not been paid in over a year. Despite an attempt to privatise the airline, the Serbian government announced earlier this year that Aviogenex will be liquidated since no interest was shown. However, JetVision Balkan from Serbia, GLT Overseas (Middle East) from the United Arab Emirates, Euroswiss Investment Holding from Switzerland and Arctica Airlines from Russia all submitted letters of intent for the purchase of Aviogenex in August 2014. The company says its privatisation process has been mishandled by the government so as to protect the interests of the Etihad-backed Air Serbia. Its employees claim that the state does not want to create additional competition for its national airline. Aviogenex was set up in 1968. In 1990, its busiest year, it handled 633.932 passengers with a fleet of ten aircraft.
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Spending a million dollars to completely overhaul a plane, and then selling it for less than 20% of that sum (after less than 800 flight hours) because one government controlled company owes another government controlled company money.
And of course, because of this, 40 people will lose their jobs.
Колико је Јат дуговао АНТ-у, па и Ер Сербија сада и ником ништа. Штета, велика штета, ако не и срамота!
Све најбоље!
If they didn't want to do that, at least allow the Air Force to buy the plane for €200.000. It's a shame that our Air Force has to charter Russian IL-62s and Egyptian 737s to move our troops around.
Air Serbia is afraid of Aviogenex. Pussies.
Kad samo već kod Kanada, oni koriste svoj A310 u multi-svrhe, pa što ne bi I mi? Osim ako država nema kintu za jedan novi Global Express ili Gulfstream???...to sam I mislio.
S'postovanjem Rodney Son & Co. HOME of QANTASVILLE I. Sydney, AUST.
I love when people talk about "capitalism" and "logic of the market", and when state decides to "privatize" and "liquidate" unsuccessful companies - on one side you have state which highly limits what a "state" company can do, pumps money out, decides that the debt is a horrible thing and should be payed; while on the other side you have "progressive" capitalistic companies, fully private or partially owned by state companies that have high outstanding debts, which government either doesn't care about or dismisses them, you have high arbitrary subventions, bailing outs etc. (btw it is not just in Serbia, of course, motto of the modern capitalism is "dept is public, profit is private").
But anyways, back to the Aviogenex, so sad. Brand-wise, they had a phenomenal name and logo, which is still modern and nice, and much better than AirSerbia's.
Yet they had more than a million euros to refurbish this plane. So they did 85% of the investment, and they now have nothing to show for it. They may as well give the 200.000 euros to BEG and gift the plane to the Air Force, and for the next decade we can have our politicians and soldiers flown around in our own planes instead of chartering Russian IL-62s.
a state agency has paid a total sum of more than 20 milion euros for outstanding debts.
Don't forget above is for OLD debts, now for ASL the airport grants up to 75% discount and NIS 50% discount. Since AB is state owned and NIS partly state owned...who's money is it? And who has profited? At the end tax payers are paying and other airlines who are more and more fleeing BEG airport. I personally believe that ASL will cost us "kao Svetog Petra kajgana"....
1. ) The fleet will be completely exchanged
2.) Aviolet will fly at convenient timings ( already last summer, lots of night and late flights)
1989 JP already flew with brandnew V2500 powered A320s, JU had an MD11 order and was flying as a Europe launch customer with Boeing 737-300s. That how I wanted Yugoslavia to be perceived: modern, open, developed.... and not with old russian TU134 crashbirds....... but whatever, after all it came even worse....
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Tako da im niko nije kriv.
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Raspitaj se malo pre nego sto postujes.
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should/could/would have, but....
Pisite slobodno i lose stvari o ASL necu intervenisati , ja samo intervenisem kod Anonymous-a koji pisu gluposti.
A ne znam sto dodajete SNS palite ljude .
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"The model has seen long-term service with some 42 countries, with some European airlines having scheduled as many as 12 daily takeoffs and landings per plane".
I don't know many Western aircraft capable of doing that at that time. Please browse through incidents history and let us know how many crashes actually resulted from poor design and mechanical failure in its 40 years of operation with nearly 900 airframes built, such as...fuselage cracks or batteries catching fire? Let's not even talk of pitot-freazing induced aerodynamic stall killing hundreds, not solved to date, so you might think twice before boarding an Airbus in tropical areas and convergence zones.
This must be the most ignorant comment i've seen here in a long time.
The Boeing 727 was a great aircraft which I liked a lot at that time. Last time I flew it was in the late 90s with AA from DCA to MIA when we headed for an AA internal Soccer tournament
I think by 1990 Aviogenex had 5 732 and 5 727
Not only that but 2 B733 are joining the fleet so you can enjoy the nostalgia a bit longer xoxo
its not about writing good or bad, its about facts. this forum is for discussion, not to create stories. and please, serbia is not north korea, i am older than you, i do not require your permission as to what i write on this blog! You dont know basic manners and etiquet yet come here to troll on every discussion about your (lack) of knowledge in aviation and daily comments about A330's coming to JU. Next year is 2016 but hey, nobody posts that everyday saying how smart they are!
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1 15-16 pilota ide na obuku ETOPS ;)
A dobro ih reklamirate.
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The only thing I will agree on is that the A319's took too long to enter the fleet for what they are. Wifi should of been then installed, not now at the beginning of the summer season! YU-APJ is just about done if not ready, YU-API has started to get it fitted. 8 more to go
Crusty is for me the right word and in my eyes it is one of the ugliest planes ever built.
The countries u mention are those who had to buy in Europe or those somewhere in the 3rd world who cld not afford buying western built aircraft. And yep Russian technology was ok until maybe end 60s, early 70s. But than they lost more and more the gap to the West. Succeeding models could not match anymore with those of the West. 1988 MALEV purchased a 737, in 89 LOT B767 and Interflug the A310.
TU134 were not to found in the US, Canada, Lufthansa, Swissair, Qantas or Singapore Airlines. But Aeroflot operates today A321, Boeing 737-800s, Boeing 777-300ERs. Russian Aviation is capable but last 40 years of their civil aviation history can be put aside and recycled. The new Suchoi Superjet is a promising relaunch, but yet has to proove if It will be a real success
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Lako je lupetati i pametovati. Dodji malo na Balkan pa glumi ovde filozofa mesto sto nam solis pamet iz Austrije.
ANJ to FCO
ANK to AMS (ouch)
ANI to FRA
Good Lord.
There is some basic facts and we just cant ignore them
i had once the "pleasure" to fly a Russian aircraft and that was in 1989 ZRH-PRG-ZRH with OK. The cabin inside was what I expected. Positive was the window on the toilet. But I was also no fan of the BAC 1-11 or Fokkers. My favourites were the 707, 727s, DC10s, B747 or nowadays the Boeing 777-300ER. Different people, different preferences :-)
Air Canada's vitality is fundamental to Canadian economy and it has received favourable treatment (as in UAE row) or perhaps tacit in some cases, to operate as such. What you fail to recognize is a long list of mostly charter airlines that have gone under in previous years and decades without significant government intervention to protect them. Canada is a good example how national airline (while no longer directly government owned) is supported while many smaller, non-critical airlines are left to market forces.
If you apply this approach to Serbia, Air Serbia would warrant government support while Aviogenex, if it can't operate profitably on its own, should face closure
I love the B737 and personally I would love to see them fly for at least another 2 years to charter destinations as well as regional destinations, but ASL has to make their opinion when it comes to those aircraft.
Also it is unacceptable to send A319 to Sofia or Bucharest and send the B737 to Amsterdam.
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As for "SQ LH SK JL or AA" they didn't buy them for the same reason LO, MA, SU and other were being Tupolevs - politics and supporting your domestic production. Even if the Russians made an aircraft that was superior in every possible way no Western countries would have bought them anyway, proof of what is the freighter program. They just use them when they have no other choice cause they've got nothing to match the AN-124 and AN-225.
I read that IL-96 econimcs are about 11% worse than the 772, which isn't that bad but obviously if you're running a business you want only the best, even if it is only 1%, so stop talking crap copied from some tabloid-level anti-Russian propaganda, i expected more from you really but i am getting used at your anti-russian and anti-serbian sentiment.
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dakle ako ne kontrolisu pare kako su mogli da nabave nove avione? Jel shvatas koliko lupas?
Sto vi odma vredjate cim neko nema misljene kao vi.Niko nece napraviti na svetu bolje Kargo Avione.
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INN-NS is a clever young man, a little bit over-enthusiastic at times but i'm sure that with the right dose of experience and maturity he'll reach the perfect balance.
Not sure if i can say the same thing for you - disgruntled bitter Anonymous of an age when it becomes too difficult to change things in life and look at your mistakes.
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Као долазиш на Балкан једном месечно. Да је то истина већ би научио да пишеш.
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Some might say this is in order to attract transit pax, but if I was a transit pax I would not mind travelling with B737 or the ATR from Bucharest to Belgrade. On the other hand, I would not feel comfortable travelling with the B737 to London or Amsterdam. Do not forget that there is like 144 seats in the B737 compared to 128 seats in the A319.
Како да не. Сваке недеље долећеш из Беча Ер Србијом.
Ne ja dolecem sa tyrolean jet service.
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A onda cu svaki vikend da letim.
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Sto da se boji mATR kad ga odlicno odrzavaju.
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Hvala unapred =D
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Eto znate i google da koristite.
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You should immediately warn Lufthansa passengers, they are still operating 737 almost as old as Aviolet planes. There are a lot of world class airlines around the world operating planes older than Aviolet 737.
"Do not forget that there is like 144 seats in the B737 compared to 128 seats in the A319. "
Do not forget that some fine airlines have more than 144 seats in A319! For example Air Berlin, this config has 150 seats in A319:
http://seatexpert.com/seatmap/597/Air_Berlin_Airbus_A319-112/
Stop trolling, you don't have enough knowledge.
Letim i sa ASL naravno samo je malo nezgodno iz INN.
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Total: 12 out 15 in service. How are 4 (four) 733s then "pillars" and not 12 other planes?!? You need to go back to grade 1.
You really do not see what I was trying to prove. I clearly said in my first comment that I love the Boing 737 and would love for ASL to keep them for at least another 2 years. The point I was making is that it does not make sense to send A319 to OTP or SOF and send the B737 to LHR or TLV. Why send the older and more cramped plane to a 3 hour destination WITHOUT BIZ class? Answer that and please do not compare ASL to other companies. Just focus on the company itself.
"Stop trolling, you don't have enough knowledge."
Explain to me how are my comments "trolling".
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/0/0/2350000.jpg
i must of misheard the registration. Thanks for the correction. Could of been it was just brought to the hangar for something quick. But a second ac is coming/came for wifi. Will get it clarified again. YU-APJ is definately in for wifi.
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hehehe and that took like 1 week if i remember, maybe 2 max?
Actually, it was the idea of JU's head of international affairs and alliances who proposed to them to suspend BEG and to sign a code-share agreement. It's good that they accepted it because they are making much more money now, well, at least on the LJU-BEG segment.
No problem. Well, like I posted on here a few days ago, people from the technical department at JU told me that they are experiencing quite a few problems with API and APJ. That's why I am surprised that APJ is the first one to get wifi, if the rumours are really true.
I remember when APJ went for a C check people were more than confident that it will come back with a small bump in the rear section of its fuselage. I hope that at least this time around rumours become reality.
Lufthansa dispatches them onto domestic routes plus places like Zurich, Vienna, Brussels, Copenhagen... flights that are not longer than 90 minutes.
Also, it's illogical to wonder why JU sends its Airbuses to Sofia and Bucharest but not to Frankfurt or Tel Aviv when these are in different waves of departures. It's obvious that JU needs more aircraft if they want to have such an ambitious schedule.
By the way, JU's B733 no longer have that many cycles left.
Arrived to Beg as 7M 2977.
As of AGX, I am kinda said to see them go tho they were brought to bankruptcy long time ago.
Let's keep the memory in the future of everything AGX used to represent in Serbian and ex-yu aviation history. All the best to their employees.