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| Airport admits to jeopardising other projects for Sea Air start-up |
Osijek Airport has cancelled several projects with other carriers in favour of Sea Air, a Croatian start-up which was to open a base in the city back in May. Three months on, the carrier has delayed its launch for a fifth time. Despite selling over 2.000 tickets on planned flights to Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt, “operational reasons” have forced the airline to cancel its inaugural service time and again, with the latest launch date now set for August 23. In a statement, Osijek Airport conceded, “Sea Air’s actions have created big problems for us, as we were unable to fulfil projects with other companies in order to allow the airline to base an aircraft and hire at least ten staff”.
Following the latest cancellation on August 9, Osijek Airport has apologised to all passengers for the Sea Air fiasco, which it has endorsed over the past six months. “Becoming a hub airport is our utmost priority and that is the only reason we have tolerated some of Sea Air’s mistakes. However, it is now evident that despite the support from Osijek Airport, the City of Osijek, and select government ministries, this project will not come to life and has damaged our reputation”, the airport said. It added, “As a result, we no longer support this project”. Osijek Airport, which welcomed almost 30.000 passengers last year, anticipated handling some 100.000 travellers in 2015 as a result of Sea Air’s flights. Furthermore, the airport believed the services would appeal to travellers not only from Croatia but also from neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Hungary.
Prior to Sea Air’s launch three days ago, the airline wrote the following to Osijek Airport (in English), “Dear Osijek Airport ladies and gentlemen, Sea Air, the youngest part of your family of airlines, learns how to walk. But due to the fact that we are not prepared enough we are delaying our first flight until August 23, 2015. By then we do hope we can walk and run and fly. For any inconvenience we would like to apologise. Yours, Sea Air Team”. It remains to be seen whether Osijek Airport itself will be held accountable for going into business, and jeopardising other projects in the process, with a start-up airline which has proven itself as unprofessional on several occasions. Furthermore, the airline’s cancellations have disrupted plans for thousands of passengers which have been hoping to travel from Osijek to Germany since May. Osijek Airport is served by Croatia Airlines (from Dubrovnik and Split) and Ryanair (from London Stansted) on a seasonal summer basis. Furthermore, Trade Air runs year-long commuter flights from Zagreb.
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Seems they use ex russian airlines from georgia and ukraine on their AOC
http://www.luftline.com/
http://www.flyaerojet.aero/en/
Question is, was there any demand at all on those german routes or did this morons screw it up anyway, my guess is there is no real demand to fill even in summer
Evo jednog od mojih osvrta:
Ako je Air Croatia i djelovala kao firma koja bi mogla nešto napraviti, dalmatian.hr i ovaj Sea Air po svemu su vidljivi da nemaju pojma, ili im uopće nije namjera pokrenuti zrakoplovnu firmu ili su toliki diletanti da to ne znaju napraviti. Iskreno ne znam što je gore. Jer:
- najaviti 3 različita tipa aviona u minijaturnoj floti,
- LCC model sa prastarim i neisplativim devetkama (koje više nisu isplative ni za chartere),
- Boeing 737-500 koji nije isplativ ni jednoj kompaniji na svijetu pa čak i kad ga ima u vlasništvu,
- svakodnevne letove iz Osijeka za FRA, MUC i VIE, i to sa 150-seaterom,
- konektirane letove za Niš (gdje 10-tak kompanija do sada nije uspjelo napraviti letove),
- pa ruski avioni za cargo iz Osijeka,
- pa letovi sa Saabom koji i kada ima 100% LF nije isplativ osim ako se opako subvencionira, a ovi letovi se ne subvencioniraju,
- LCC sa Saabom - vrlo revolucionarna ideja, u stvari ne revolcionarna nego debilna (sve čekam kad Ryanair ovo vidi pa krenu nabavljati minijaterune prastere Saabove)
- Saab 340 za FRA ne može biti isplativ radi cjenovne politike aerodroma na kojem žele manje letova sa većim avionima, pa su i duplo veći turbopropi neisplativi za letove na FRA
- da ne pričamo o mijenjaju flote i strategije svakih par mjeseci (malo bi LCC, pa regionalne letove, pa chartere, pa cargo - a od toga se nije ostvarilo ništa do sada)...
- uz to otkazali su letove već tri puta, prošla im je sezona (sada pokretati letove je više nego glupo jer po zimi tu putnika nema), izgubili povjerenje putnika, komitenata...
O ovakvim stvarima treba ne samo pisati nego URLATI i to iz dva razloga
1. Spriječiti da uzmu pare još nekim naivnim ljudima i pokušati zaštiti potencijalne putnike, ne samo radi gubitka novaca nevinih i naivnih ljudi, nego i radi gubitka povjerenja u sve potencijalne projekte u zrakoplovstvu u Hrvatskoj
2. Isforsirati da hrvatski regulatori uvedu mehanizme koji bi spriječili ovakav diletantizam i varanje potencijalnih putnika. Jer ovo je sada već nekih 4 primjer u samo godinu dana.
"Ljudi oni planiraju sa avionom od 150 mjesta letiti 7 puta tjedno (svakodnevno) za Frankfurt, Munchen i Beč iz Osijeka? Pa čoviječe to bi bilo previše i za Split, Dubrovnik, a apsolutno nevjerovatno za Zadar, Rijeku ili Pulu i to u top sezoni. A za Osijek????? Pa jesu oni normalni? Svakodnevni let za Beč sa Q400 možda, ali veliko možda i to uz code-share na Austrian. Munchen uz Beč svaki dan sa Q400 bi bio ultra teški optimizam koji bi uspio samo sa ekstremno niskim cijenama i tonom para utučenim u propagandu. Tri dnevna leta sa Q400 iz Osijeka nemaju nikakve šanse, a sa MD 82 to je više nego totalna glupost.
Ili ovu firmu vode teški diletanti koji o poslu nemaju ni najmanjeg pojma, ili se radi o čistoj pljački ljudi gdje će pobrati pare i pokupiti se nakon nekog vremena."
As I understand all passengers has been refunded thru the travel agency as this was the only way to purchase a ticket.
But like always you are just guessing and then write your guesses as facts
Governments indirectly subsidize bus lines and truck transporters by spending billions of dollars on motorways.
Governments subsidize urban transport.
Why should aviation be any different? Of course there are also routes in aviation which are important for various social and economic reasons but are not economically feasible.
Look how well Wizz is doing in INI
http://flyfromnis.blogspot.com/2015/08/letovi-za-utorak-i-cetvrtak-na-liniji-Nis-Malme-rasprodati.html
pa je posle Beograd bio kriv sto nemaju letove. Ili Dubrovnik koji casti svoje gradjane pa uglavnom placaju putarinu, a ne lete.
http://i.imgur.com/qDMMz3X.jpg
OHD Јuly 2015 - 21.380 (+70.3%)
Dodatni kapacitet ce biti dovoljan do 2020 godine, sto potvrdjuje da nece biti novog terminala pre 2020.
Такође скоро је Иџиптер имао лет са А330 када је пребацивао српске мировне снаге, мислим да је укрцавање било преко А5 или А6. Да ли је био паркиран на Б позицији такође, а за укрцавање је одређен А6 не знам, али да се проверити
Мада, тај део о завршетку радова за свега 9 месеци ми се чини сувише амбициозно, посебно ако се сетимо колико им је требало да модернизују ,,Ц терминал''.
Живи били па видели. :)
That area of the terminal should be bombed, destroyed. It's so depressing. Reminds me of some provincial bust stop in the Baltics back in the 1970s.
That would be "state-of-the-art five star experience" ;)
На Луфтханзи ти је рецимо 240 евра повратна карта, одлазак 29.08 а повратак 29.09.
SKP 773.152
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