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| Mostar to negotiate flights with Lufthansa, Austrian and Turkish Airlines |
Mostar Airport will enter talks with several Star Alliance member airlines over the potential launch of scheduled year-long flights to the city. Mostar has struggled to attract scheduled services but sees a significant number of charters throughout the year, carrying religious pilgrims visiting the nearby Medjugorje sight. “This year we will attempt to bring one scheduled carrier. Primarily we are interested in talks with Germanwings, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, as well as Turkish Airlines. We are confident there is a significant number of people from our diaspora who would fly to Mostar”, the airport’s Managing Director, Marin Raspudić, said. He added that the airport is interested in direct links to Munich, Vienna and Istanbul.
In 2013, the Federal government of Bosnia and Herzegovina designated both Mostar and Tuzla airports as the country’s low cost hubs. Since then, Wizz Air has opened a base in Tuzla. Mostar Airport attempted to attract low cost carriers on several occasions but has had little success. Back in 2012 it held talks with Wizz Air over potential flights from Dortmund and Malmo, however, the airline opted for Tuzla instead. Last October, Ryanair confirmed it had entered negotiations with Mostar Airport regarding the possible launch of services from Germany and Scandinavia. In the end, these flights did not materialise either. “Our main objective is to see the return of those passengers that left us during the war and post-war period. They are now using Dubrovnik and Split for charters to Medjugorje and Sarajevo Airport for scheduled services”, Mr Raspudić said, noting it is difficult to compete against larger nearby rivals such as Dubrovnik, Split and Sarajevo.
Mostar Airport handled 31.633 passengers during the first half of the year, an improvement of 17.2% compared to the same period in 2014, making it Bosnia and Herzegovina’s third busiest airport behind Sarajevo and Tuzla but ahead of Banja Luka. Mostar estimates it will handle some 85.000 passengers by the end of the year, up from 68.000 in 2014. It handled a record 86.000 travellers in a single year prior to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia but has been unable to surpass that figure ever since. This summer, a total of five airlines are maintaining regular charter flights to Mostar, one of them being Croatia Airlines. The Croatian carrier operates two weekly flights, each on Thursday, to the Lebanese capital Beirut with an Airbus A320 aircraft. Services will run until October.
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With the A1 approaching Mostar both from south (Additional 10km to be finished this year) and north (Tarcin - Konjic currently expropriated) both SJJ and SPU are getting "closer" timewise.
Going after legacy carrier is big mistake. They should instead try to leverage their low-cost designation which makes them having much lower fees than SJJ and probably even lower than SPU.
Step 1 (very obvious one): Lure back charters to Medjugorje from DBV and SPU
Step 2: Try getting some package tourism destined to Adriatic to use OMO.
Step 3: Approach LCC. It might be possible (but hard) to get Ryan or somebody else to fly to Mostar seasonally. Basically market it as Peljesac airport or something like that.
@Anon:9.11
Both BH Airlines & Croatia Airlines have tried OMO - ZAG but there is simple not enough passengers.
// Yoyo
- BNX 2 085 (approx -20%)
- OMO 9 696 (approx +18%)
- TZL 21 563 (approx +90%)
SJJ has already been posted previously (74 855 / 0%)
// Yoyo
Generally in life it is good to think trough before posting (or saying anything) and being a bit less aggressive. There are other countries in the world than Croatia.
// Yoyo
Dok je druga Stvar u Rs gde se pregovara sa nekim aviokompanijama.
INN-NS
U BiH nema ptencijala osim u Sarajevu?
1. Zasto ce onda Aerodrom Tuzla u ovoj godini prevesti blizu 250.000 putnika, dakle 9 puta vise nego aerodrom u Banjoj Luci?
2. Ako je aeordrom Mostar u 2014. godini imao 68.000 putnika, a Banja Luka jedva 28.000, onda je sve jasno.
3. Povratna karta iz Banja Luke za Beograd kosta SAMO 45 Eura, sto je najjeftiniji let na Balkanu, i opet je faktor popunjenosti JEDVA 40%. Nekim danima je i ispod 20%.
Poredeci Sarajevo, Tuzlu, Zenicu, Mostar i Banja Luku dodje se do zakljucka da cisto statisticki Banja Luka ima najmanju kupovnu moc u prosjeku, a i po glavi stanovnika najmanju dijasporu od svih nabrojanih gradova.
4. Ne bi ti bilo na odmet da pogledas istini u oci i sagledas cijelu situaciju.
Ako je povratna karta od 45€, ukljucujuci SVE TAKSE i KOFER, SKUPA (jer je faktor popunjenosti PRENZIKA), ko bi onda letio za druge gradove gdje bi cijena karte sa taksama bila 100-200€ ?
l = 200 km
vrijeme putovanja: 2 h i 30 min
Mostar - Aerodrom Dubrovnik
l = 147 km (najbiliza ruta)
vrijeme putovanja: minimalno 2 h i 15 minuta
Mostar - Aerdrom Sarajevo
l = 127 km
vrijeme putovanja: 2 h i 10 min.
1. Najbilizi aerodrom je Sarajevo, a udaljen je vise od 2 sata
2. Karte iz Dubrovnika i Splita su tokom seozone (juni-septembar) PRESKUPE i prelaze 220€.
Rezime: Mostar ima veliki potencijal da bude cilj jednog niskotarifnog prevoznika.
ZAG-OMO id a dead route because neither Croats living in Zagreb or Mostar have any money and rather take the bus for 10 hours.
The only routes that may work alla year on OMO is from south of Italy and Ireland for pilgrimes as they are the largest groups.
Maybe FRA, TXL and MUC from Germany because of large diaspora from that area and pilgrimes.
Seasonally you can ad Poland,Spain, Ireland and France
Nothern Europe are not catolics and are not interested in Mostar, Ex Yu countries and rest if eastern Europe are to poor and take the bus
Ja nigde nisam uporedio Bh i Rs nego sam rekao da SJJ jedini u Federaciji ima zaradu TZL ima najvece inostranstvo u celoj Bosni zato W6 i Kantic imaju najboljo poslovanje odatle.
Jos jednom BNX ima dobro poslovanje sa ASL i LF se malo popravio u ostalom pregovara se sa nekoliko prevoznika. Dali treba jos nesto reci.
INN-NS
INN-NS
The problem is thet they have to show their Mecedeses around. So they will rather drive 8 hours than use a plane.
Barem se to da zakljuciti iz tvojih komentara.
Vezano za BNX:
- LF se "malo popravio", istina. Ali zahvaljujuci LJETU. Medjutim LF od 40%, odnosno od 38%, je zaista mizeran. RS-u je bolje da te pare potrosi negdje drugo.
- BNX je u pregovorima, ali za sad nece doci do otvaranja novih linija, jer bi se Air Serbia osjecala "ugoreznom" a to Dodik NIKADA nece dozovliti.
Balkan je ovo - nema ovde puno razuma i razumijevanja.
@INN-NS
There are several reasons why people dislike you and have hard time with you. Probably nothing new, but I try to distill it in few simple bullet points so that even you can understand.
1. You have shockingly low knowledge of aviation industry and barely any business travel experience / frequent flyer. Yet you comment every story and pretend that you have some kind of insider info or deep insight.
2. You are extremely confrontational and nationalistic. Even simple disagreements end up with you labeling people by their nationality, finding up hidden agendas and conspiracies.
3. You are fanboy. You cannot stand that somebody has negative opinion / experience about something that you cheer for.
4. Finally you are pathological liar. Latest post is just another example of that.
// Yoyo
Air Serbia Cancels 2 Routes from late-Oct 2015
by JL
Update at 0600GMT 15JUL15
Air Serbia at the launch of winter 2015/16 season is suspending 2 routes, as the airline closed reservation for Belgrade – Budapest and Belgrade – Larnaca route, on/after 25OCT15. The airline previously scheduled 1 daily and 3 weekly service each during winter season. Previously planned schedule as follow.
Belgrade – Budapest
JU620 BEG0740 – 0855BUD AT7 x136
JU624 BEG1825 – 1940BUD AT7 136
JU621 BUD1000 – 1105BEG AT7 x136
JU625 BUD2045 – 2150BEG AT7 136
Belgrade – Larnaca
JU506 BEG2355 – 0320+1LCA 319 257
JU507 LCA0405 – 0545BEG 319 136
Source: http://airlineroute.net/2015/07/15/ju-budlca-w15cxld/
I've just flown BEG-SPU on JU and was shocked by the LF. 4/8 in Business, and full house in Economy - all this on an A320 on a Wednesday. They must be making a killing on this route.
Especially when there are less flights to SPU and DBV than last year.
Neither airport on the coast should pay subsidies in summer; it is the failing AS who is "loosing" money with this noticed "strategy". Can you name it "strategy"?
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo360/ivicad/Nikola%20Kovaevi_zpsa4bfg0ru.jpg
1 Niste pitani da dajete komentar o meni i mom znanju posto tek od juce komentarisete i ja ne znam dosta niti kazem da unam nesto ali znam dovoljno.
2 Ja imam izvore iz nutra to se vama svidelo ili ne ja sam znao da se linija za BNX otvara jos u leto 2012 samo nisam znao da postoji ovaj blog.
3 Ja komentarisem na svaku vest necu valjda vas za odobrenje da pitam mozda .
4 naravno necu da dozvolim da se neke licnosti ovde vredjaju .
5 Prvo vi dokazite koliko znate molim vas pa onda solite pamet meni .
6 Vi ste se odma usprotivili meni samo da bi pridobili nekoliko Anonymous-a
7 nikad nisam napao nekoga sa potpisom kad prica nesto protiv ASL kao sto je moglo da se vidi .
INN-Ns
posto si toliki fan Er Srbije, i s obzirom da dolazis kod nas 'cesto', pretpostavljam da putujes Er Srbijom, dakle hoce li napisati svoj raport o putovanju sa JU? Naravno uz neke slike.
Ja nikad ne pisem raport o putovanju niti cu ovde postavljati slike ali ako imate zelju mogu vam objaviti iz cockpita .
INN-NS
Thanks for sharing the photo.
It will be a great terminal once completed I am sure. Definately needed. Hopefully with it will come for some changes, such as dedicated lines for at Croatian passports in the arrivals, as well as the removal of the heavily overpriced taxi company (btw a legal taxi) that is charging almost 300 kn to the city!!!
pa s obzirom da toliko hvalis JU kao ekstra kompanija, red bi bio da delujes i svojih iskustava sa nama, kao sto sam ja svima delio nekoliko puta.
Sto se kokpit tice, pretpostavljam da pokusavas sam sebe da hvalis? Svako moze u kokpit da udje, naravno dok je avion na gejtu.
Ja kad bi pisao raport bilo bi da sam pristrasan mnogo.
INN-NS
It is quite obvious that JU should fly to both Dubrovnik and Split 10 times per week with ATR to offer better connections and better flight times for O&D passengers.
I upload my images to flickr. It is quick to upload and easy to share.
@ INN-SNS
15.07.2015 @7:55pm
"Ja komentarisem na svaku vest necu valjda vas za odobrenje da pitam mozda"
dakle, ako te tudje misljenje ne zanima koliko kazes, cega se onda plasis da okacis par slika i jedan raport o putovanju?
INN-NS
thanks for the correction. Still it amazes me as to why they reduced the frequencies to both DBV and SPU compared to last summer. They should be daily from start to end of the season, and reduced for the winter season and operated on an ATR. Hopefully the winter season will show a bit of a shake up to the route and planning.
Anyway, few thoughts:
- Knowing that more then a half of city's prewar population lives elsewhere today (many of which in West), and that Međugorje receives high 6-digit number of pilgrims each year, I am certain that a line to Mostar would be viable – not to speak in summer season. If it can work in Tuzla, then it should be able to work even more in Mostar.
- Majority of those pilgrims are coming from Italy – so maybe Rome, Milan or some other major Italian city could also be an option.
- If they are counting on expats, no matter which city they choose – it must be relatively well interconnected with other airports, and even more importantly, flying times must make it possible to connect to the next flight. (And remember that about flying times(!!!), because if there is flight from BRI to OMO at 7AM, and I live in Denmark...then how the f*ck am I supposed to be in Bari at 6AM???)
INN-NS
I hate being late when news gets published, because than I'm the last one to write, and then nobody read what I said :)
You are forgetting that more than a quarter of Mostar's prewar population now lives in Scandinavia (Nothern Europe).
Many of those who do have money to buy plane tickets, prefer to drive for hours to Belgrade/Banja Luka, just to be able to show theirs four-wheeled pets, rather then simply taking a plane.
@ JATBEGMEL. There will be a tram from the terminal direct to the city.
There would be no dedicated lines for Croatian passports, it's not possible under EU rules. But there would be separated lines for "EU citizens" and "others", which has been the case for 2 years already. However, there would be definitely much more lines and much more booths, which would make entrance/exit much more convenient and easier. In addition to that, by 2017 HR is expected to be a part of the Schengen aerea, which will reduce quantity of "international" passangers who need to pass immigration controls on both entering and exiting the country, not only at ZAG.