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| Belgrade terminal expansion delayed as airport prepares for US flights |
The multi million euro expansion of Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport's Terminal 2 (T2) building has been delayed, while work on other related projects are on track as the airport prepares to handle its first transatlantic flights in over a decade during 2016. Touted as the airport’s first greenfield investment in years, the T2 expansion (pictured), valued at fifteen million euros, was to begin this December and scheduled for completion in August 2016. While necessary tender procedures have been completed and a contractor selected, the Serbian Ministry for Transport is yet to issue its final approval. Initially, the airport anticipated to get the all-clear by November in order for construction to begin a month later. The new wing of the two-level terminal will feature passenger boarding bridges, primarily intended for larger, wide-body aircraft. Two common waiting lounges will be built, with the departure lounge on the upper floor equipped with four jet bridges (four parking positions for single-aisle aircraft or two for wide-body jets), while the second, ground floor lounge, will have four gates from which passengers will be bussed to remote stands. The new part of the terminal will also feature large areas for commercial space, such as a duty free, shops and restaurants. It is unknown when the ministry is expected to give its final approval in order for construction work to begin.
On the other hand, the airport has concluded several projects with the aim of improving its facilities ahead of transatlantic services in June 2016. A new staff building, valued at 500.000 euros, has been completed, while the construction of a de-icing platform, which will be located next to the taxiway near the Terminal 2 gate area, will be finished by June 2016. "Consequently, we will improve de-icing procedures during the winter months which will speed up aircraft movement at the airport", Managing Director, Saša Vlaisavljević, says. The project is valued at four million euros. Furthermore, the airport has refurbished part of its Terminal 1 building. The United States Transport Security Administration will evaluate Belgrade Airport and its security oversight in February next year. As a result, the airport is investing five million euros in new technology, including body scanners, bomb detectors, additional fire trucks and screening equipment.
Belgrade Airport plans to finance all of its investments from its own funds. During the first three quarters, it recorded a net profit of just over seventeen million euros, up from 10.3 million during the same period last year. It expects to log a record twenty million euros in profit by the end of the year. So far in 2015, the airport has seen its passengers numbers improve 3%. Over the weekend, the airport broke its all-time passenger record. It handled 4.65 million travellers by Monday, thus registering its busiest year in history. The airport expects to register passenger growth of 4% - 6% next year.
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So a February review should be successful since you would assume Belgrade has been told what they need improve to meet the criteria but when will the approval be granted... April, May??
Cutting it close for a June NY service!
So, one can not be sure if there is really money for this expansion. Foreign airlines which pays full amount of money cuts frequencies and close routes. Even airport can not hide that fact. And Air Serbia is paying so little as Serbia throw exemption of paying taxes and services pays their share of investment in Air Serbia. So where can Airport get money from? Yes, you can make some creative accounting some time, but sooner or later it will come out.
Expansion is delayed... Why? If there is money, if tender is finished why than? Sapienti sat!
Logicno je da aerodrom nece da ulaze u nesto sto ce kasnije da pripadne AS, pa je primoran da saceka resavanje te komplikacije, koja je davno trebala biti resena.
I što kada Etihad postane 49% vlasnik jednog terminala. Tko će naplačivati usluge, iznajmljivanje prostora restoranima, trgovinama, barovima...? Na koji će terminal letjeti ostali prijevoznici? Što ako Etihadov/Air Serbijin terminal bude jeftiniji, funkcionalniji, povoljniji, bolji? Kome će onda ići pare?
And anyway, JU can barely retire the Boeings, even less build an entire new terminal.
And what happened to bag drop and newcheck in areas between T2 and T2, no update at all? And why would deice pads be finished by June whene there is no ice in June, or July or August...
The de-icing platform will be finished before next winter so it can be used for next winter. Dah.
And as for the area between T1 and T2, read the [previous article (carefully)
"Meanwhile, Belgrade plans to purchase five automated baggage drop-off kiosks next year, becoming the first EX-YU airport to offer the service. The self service product allows passengers to check-in their baggage within seconds. The new kiosks will be located in the expanded check-in area at the airport, which will also include an additional seven traditional check-in desks. The airport is overhauling 700 square metres of space for the extended check-in area. A tender to select a contractor to adapt the area closes in February 2016".
Konačno, ako je to tako onda ne postoji izgovor da "BEG ne treba investirati u treminal koji će i ovako pripasti Air Serbiji". Pa i FRA i MUC investiraju u treminal koji dedicate koristi Lufthansa. Ekipa, ovo NE DRŽI VODU!
All the weakest or least interested players will drop like flies.
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Relations is problematic when you can not financial benefit from it. When Etihad will get their terminal they will have to use it as much as they can. And will be competition to BEG. With discounts and better conditions they will have to attract users. LH and other including. And those will stop to be in war a second when they will get some extra benefits.
But here is not a problem of Air Serbia expansion that should make benefits from others because of connections but it is about protectionism. Wherever there was protectionism there was cutting of other companies frequencies and routes (Turkish, Moldova, Ukraine International...).
Eventualno glupi potezi Jata prije toga (a pretvaranje duga prema Aerodromima Crna Gora u otpisivanje vlasništva Jata nad terminalima to sigurno jest) ih se u ovom konkretnom slučaju ne tiću.
Kada se taj spor okonca, vlasnik ce biti ASL. Etihad jeste vlasnik 49 posto ASL, al ne i tog terminala, sto za neupucene znaci da ne mogu oni da raspolazu sa pola terminala vec iskljucivo ASL kao pravno lice. Druga stvar je npr ukoliko se proda terminal pa podele dividende akcionarima, odnosno vlasnicima. Po tom osnovu jedino je moguce da novac pripadne Etihadu pa na kraju i vladi. Rs
Upsssss....
Sure, BEG doesn't charge JU (as much as they should). But, prices haven't gone up for the others, the conditions are as they used to be. JU cannot afford fare dumping anymore, and they stopped doing that, so how come nobody's introducing new flights?
Almost any European destination is cheaper with LH, AZ, LX than JU - and I won't even go into LCCs.
U tvom postu se nazalost vidi ljubomora, na koju je suvisno bilo sta pisati.
Most Serbs can not afford to fly frequently for pleasure and also not enough foreigners come to Belgrade/Serbia as tourists or for business.
It is not JU's fault any of that.
The "easiest" way to boost their passenger numbers is to offer cheap connections but that needs to be financed from somewhere since most of the time the connecting fares are below cost.
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That is why JU does not launch flights to CAI, IKA or any other place in the Middle East.
All traffic must go through Abu Dhabi.
Air Serbia = 49% vlasništvo Etihada
Etihad upravlja Air Serbijom (njihov management)
Etihad traži svoje ugovorno pravo na terminal
Kada ga dobi upravljačka struktura Etihada će upravljati terminalom
Još jednom, upravljačka struktura Air Serbije je pod ugovorom sa Etihadom.
Koja od ovih činjenica nije istinita?
Argument of demand would be OK if Air Serbia passengers number also goes down. But they are not. Just foreign airlines decline number of passengers not Air Serbia. Enough said.
Do not compare Air Serbia and Alitalia. Some of us told you those companies will not be in same situation and that Etihad will put much more in Alitalia (and will give them much more freedom, benefits, oportunities...). And for sure there will be much more examples like that in future.
Nije dovoljno reči "ljubomora" treba i argumenirati tako što. U protivnom se svodite na razinu osnovnoškolskog prepucavanja po načelu "moj autić je bolji od tvog".
Ponovo pitam, koja rečanica, dio rečenice ili riječ nije točna u toj konstataciji?
I mean yes I do understand that you really hate Air Serbia and it hurts you that they won the competition in many routes but using that argument and thinking that you are the smartest person in the world when in fact it shows you have absolutely no knowledge of the aviation industry is really pathetic.
Basically you blame Air Serbia for not giving up on every route where they have some competition.
Indeed, having Air Serbia bankrupt would really help you and your life would be so much better, right?
Sorry, not gonna happen. But don't worry, you can always criticize every single route they open and say how they will lose money without actually being able to know what will happen, that would be enough for you to feed to stay alive.
"The de-icing platform will be finished before next winter so it can be used for next winter. Dah."
Another delay. Slide says it was supposed to be completed by now:
http://postimg.org/image/5bggbhp7d/
I naravno odma poceti i sa novom pistom.
INN-NS
TK had to reduce flights for violating the air traffic agreement between Serbia and Turkey. Turkish carriers still to this day violate the agreement, both in frequency and capacity.
http://www.exyuaviation.com/2015/11/foreign-carriers-see-mixed-results-in.html
QR next year will increase capacity in BEG.
If you understand, then, what's your problem, Anonymous 5:05 PM?
As for China, it is longer to fly via AUH. There already is a demand for travel between Serbia and China, and a direct flight could entice pax to transit onwards to a variety of Croatian coastal cities (DBV, SPU, PUY) along with Monetenegro (TIV), Slovenia (LJU), where other carriers many not be so flexible. Trade and relations between Serbia and China are good. Air China have increased their code share offering to BEG via JU.
Well let's take a look:
Milano Malpensa - Easy Jet stopped flying there earlier this year, I wonder why? -Oh yeah, evil Air Serbia took them away all the passengers. How dare they to have passengers between Belgrade and Milano at all?
Rome Fiumicino - EasyJet stopped flying to Rome in late 2014, hm I wonder what happened? They said it's due to poor ticket sales, damn evil Air Serbia didn't suspend flights to Rome as well, how dare they to have more passengers on the route than Easy Jet?
Stuttgart - Germanwings stopped flying to Stuttgart last year and now the route is seasonal, I wonder what happened? I hope that evil Air Serbia didn't have more passengers on the route than 4U, that would be categorized as ejection by evil Air Serbia!
+ many airlines (TK, LH, LOT, Wizz and so on) decreased frequencies as ASL took away some passengers from them
These are just some of them, we won't count BA, KLM and AF as they terminated Belgrade flights while Air Serbia was Jat, but I really hope you understand now.
@5:18
Yeah totally, let's cry about Budapest being terminated destination and still not giving a damn about flights to many new destinations which were launched from 2014 and the New York service which is starting next year. Oh yeah, flights to New York are not going to be profitable so they don't count, because every route of every airline in the world is profitable except Air Serbia's flights to New York, huh?
But I have to congratulate you guys and to the people like you for magnificent arguments:
~Air Serbia launches flights to the new destination
*IT'S NOT GOING TO BE PROFITABLE!*
~The route becomes profitable and competition leaves the airport or decreases frequencies
*EVIL AIR SERBIA KICKS OUT ANOTHER AIRLINE, POOR AIRLINE!*
It's really genius, but you could make up something new, this is getting old already.
Yes, all those companies you mentioned reduce frequencies and routes, on some cases that did not influence number of their passengers, but most of the companies that reduce flights also reduce number of passengers (easyJet, Wizzair, Adria, TAP, Swiss...)
1. Mogli ste za aerodroma (ili jedan njegov terminal) dobiti nekoliko stotina milijuna EUR. Ovako ste ga dali za đabe, u stvari za opaku vlastitu investiciju.
2. Ako Etihad dođe u posjed terminala e tek onda ćete vidjeti što znači utrpavanje državnog novca i izvlačenje para iz Beograda. Dati zrakolovnu kompaniju i aerodrom istoj firmi to graniči sa ludilom.
Pa što se tu stalo, moglo se još nešto dati pride. Možda cijelu državu, pa me i onda pitajte jel to loše?
YES COMPANY THAT PAYS NOTHING IS NOT FAIR! An idiot can manage that company and kick of competition.
TK reduced IST flights because of the bilateral, not because JU defeated them. If anything, JU is stuggling there which is why they have cancelled several IST flights in November and December and even with that their average lf is around 50%.
LO suspended WAW only temporarily and is returning on 02.01. Before they announced their temporary suspension JU was ready to drop the route.
Also, the fact that W15 is far more modest than W14 it can only show that there aren't that many markets out there where JU managed to beat their competition.
Also we are not talking about New York because it's overshadowed by all the reductions and shortcomings. Sorry if you can't deal with reality buddy.
Yeah I forgot JP thanks for reminding me!
Interesting how you only write about the cases where JU was defeated and ignore all I wrote above. You haters really did overcome yourselves. lol
Yeah it's called subventions my friend, life's not fair. Many countries do this to help their flag carriers, go cry over it somewhere else.
@6:59
Reality?
Where did I say that JU defeated TK? Please read it again, I said they took away some passengers from them. And how do you know that lf on the route is 50%? May I have your source?
And why didn't you mention 4U and JP? Maybe there is something you can say about that as well just so it wouldn't seem like Air Serbia defeated anyone at all.
The fact that W15 is more modest than W14 goes to show that they failed miserably on increasing LF which was the intention of cuttings, it shows that the number of connections was much smaller and so they lost passengers, not that they were defeated on almost all markets as you said. Even carriers like LH, LX and OS are cutting their frequencies during the winter season, it's not unusual. The number of cuttings by JU this winter IS unusual and it showed that it is not cost effective at all.
Even if Air Serbia was losing on every single market, the fact that you and people like you only criticize and don't give some suggestion how to win the competition is pretty much sad, but I understand it's probably because you don't even want them to win so you could put them down.
I don't see it as a step back. Yes it does block 2 parking positions for narrow bodied ac, but that is seen in many airports around the world. Boarding is possible from 1 bridge, again nothing new. C7-C10 again are remote stands, and currently there is only 3 such boarding gates (A4a, A4b and C7). The expansion will give 4 new gates, plus 2 new remote stand boarding gates are planned (A8a and A8b). That will give 20 air bridge gates, a minimum 5 air bridges for wide bodies, plus 4 remote stand gates, whilst again there is 27 parking stands.
The expansion also sees a satellite terminal built, which GVA is an example of this in Europe. I believe the satellite terminals in GVA have 8 gates, if I'm not mistaken. If I'm not wrong, I think CDG also has them as well.
My source is our report at work which we receive regularly and IST was around 55% if I remember correctly.
We don't know what happened to 4U. They are undergoing restructuring and might be back, their withdrawal from BEG probably has little to do with JU.
Sure, I will give you JP.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=126518774&postcount=4532
EY can overcome this by using other bilaterals ie: Serbia-China to add capacity in their network ie BEG-PEK. Hypothetical JU to China would have a positive effect to the EY group.
Connections via AUH is more towards SE Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia), the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka as well as Australia, where they do well. Africa also sees some traffic via AUH.
Where your argument comes into effect is once again what I mentioned above with China, and that is bilaterals. UAE carriers have maxed their rights to Australia's main airports (MEL, SYD, BNE and PER). But what is to stop say an Italian or Serbian carrier operating say FCO-AUH-MEL or BEG-AUH-PER? It wouldn't be the first time EY crew operate on another airline for another airline, think back to A6-SAA and A6-SAB when their arrived. I believe 9W crew fly on EY flights operated with 9W ac.
Yeah, by the people who are objective and have arguments, not the haters. Just compare the number of comments saying "they are losing money; they are losing a market; they are the worst airline in the world" with the number of comments actually giving some suggestion. On any topic in the last 2-3 months.
@7:50
So, you surely know JU didn't take away almost any passengers from TK and you say 4U withdrawal from Belgrade probably has nothing to do with JU without the actual argument, just so we could be sure it's not because of JU? Interesting, thanks for giving me JP, I was dying without the airline which surely lost to JU on some market, you probably literally saved my life.
TK isn't a good example. They violated the bilaterals. Even today, technically Turkish carriers should only be operating a max of 7 frequencies to BEG and nothing larger than A320/B738, yet we see them from time to time with the A321 and B739, as well as the TK Cargo A330, and 11 flights p/w more stipulated in the bilaterals regarding reciprocity. Serbia only reacted when JU was denied its slots in IST and forced to move to SAW.
LH had not JU competition on the MUC-BEG route and still dropped its frequencies by 7 p/w. LH however has competition on BEG-FRA and still operate the same frequencies, and have increased pax numbers.
Wizz for a couple of years had a better arrangement at BEG than Jat did, didn't pay for practically anything, yet not a single complaint. Wizz complained the moment JU expanded, as they expected Jat to go bankrupt and stop flying. After pulling back, theyre starting FKB in march.
JP was weak in the BEG market, and couldn't compete with JU on frequency, price, ac, anything really. They pulled out and agreed to codeshare.
LX has increased capacity recently, and these days their A321 is daily on their ZRH-BEG, regardless of the fact JU has double daily flights to ZRH.
By the way, even though sometimes lines seem to be long, processing is much faster than at any EU airport I've been to (in all passports lane, of course).
Also, outgoing passport control in T1 is virutally desolate. At least T1 check-in staff should direct pax there, which they obviously don't at the moment. Also, any JU status pax using premium lounge should head there, as lounge enterance is right beside the exit from passport control.
Rod & Friend in expection✈✈✈ LYKV✈SYD
Btw, it was the Etihad team who brought to light this fact. Let them via JU use it if it will bring investment back into Serbia since the Serbian government for sure wont invest in it anyways.
1 od 2 terminala pripada JU, a ne celi aerodrom.
The fact is most if not all companies in BEG are not happy, This goes down once again to the poor management at the airport.
Also, Wizz has practically from Day 1 been in T1. One of the terminals belongs to JU for decades. Its not like Serbia is corruption and scandal free that people are shocked that BEG has been charging airlines the usage of property belonging to another business. The same airport that has no clear strategy, has a criminal duty free, mafia running the ever needed casino...need i say more?
Mozda nije preko potreban trenutno T3 ali ce biti svakako za 2-3 godina i moza malo manje traje gradnja ali ne treba aerodrom da koci ekspanziju ASL.
INN-NS
LOT is coming back, W6 is starting Baden Baden, expectations are for PRN to start in 2016, JU will have at least one A330 for 5 weekly JFK from June, possibly one more A330. That alone could bring those 4-6% (approx 250k pax).
Is that it? No further increase in LF, no other new routes, frequencies, charters by JU or other airlines at BEG in 2016? Or.. there will be new routes but also more cuts to existing routes?