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| Planned Belgrade - Zadar service unlikely to launch this year |
Air Serbia is unlikely to launch flights between Belgrade and Zadar in 2016, despite continuing talks between the two sides. The service, which last operated in 1991, was considered for resumption this summer, with initial talks between the Serbian carrier and Zadar Airport taking place in May last year. However, Zadar Airport's spokesperson, Nikola Barać, tells EX-YU Aviation News that these plans are unlikely to materialise. "With regard to the new cooperation with Air Serbia in 2016, this will most probably be unsuccessful with Serbia's biggest airline, but intensive negotiations are still in progress. The negative result was partly caused by the cancellation of financial support on behalf of the Croatian Tourist Board", Mr Barać says. He adds, "Zadar Airport will continue to negotiate and persist in having a Zadar - Belgrade connection just like other Croatian airports, such as Pula, Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik".
Last year, Zadar Airport's Managing Director, Irena Ćosić, announced plans for the new flights, adding that services to Belgrade would be profitable. “This is a great opportunity for Zadar because we know this route would have excellent loads. Today, new routes are secured by offering your product on the market. You can’t sit with your hands crossed. As a result, we have to present our offer to carriers that could be interested in our market and Air Serbia is one of those”, Ms Ćosić said. The last scheduled commercial flight between Zadar and Belgrade was operated on August 3, 1991. Despite these latest developments, Zadar Airport hopes to handle a record 500.000 passengers in 2016. "Our main partner, Ryanair, begins flights in April. Besides its regular twelve routes, the airline will introduce a new service to Berlin. Furthermore, we expect additional Eurowings and Croatia Airlines flights. In addition, there will be services to Luxembourg, around ten Finnish cities and Warsaw, operated by Luxair, HOP!, We travel and LOT", Mr Barać notes.
During 2015, Zadar Airport saw a slight dip in passenger numbers. Despite the decline, the airport is content with its results. "Zadar Airport is satisfied with its traffic figures for 2015. Zadar Airport has succeeded in maintaining 2014's record traffic, which amounted to 495.000 passengers. The total traffic figure for 2015 was 487.000 passengers. The management considers this traffic satisfactory, considering the lower number of flights, which were compensated by excellent traffic in the pre and post seasons. Thus, traffic was much higher in April, May, October and November (15% - 18%) compared to 2014, which improved the final result", Mr Barać says.
According to its preliminary schedule, Air Serbia plans to operate double daily flights to Zagreb, six weekly to Dubrovnik and Split and four weekly services to Pula during the 2016 summer season.
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I saw that Wizz did very well enough for 6 months operation only. Although, I know they do not have enough aircrafts, some routes from Nis make much more sense to me then those Zadar flights for i.e
I seriously don't understand why don't they lease a younger -200 version if they can't find a -500 or -600 on the market. After all, they need extra capacity.
I have been saying this for months.
And like I said, because of limited finances they can't afford to lease any new A319s. Let me remind you that YU-APD arrived 17 months ago.
Nobody is leasing brand new A319s because very few are buying new A319s.
Instead the lease market is flooded with cheap leases for used A319s, mainly from Easyjet but other airlines also who are getting A320s in their place.
Airbus is offering lease rates of 100.000$ to customers who might be interested to the CSeries.
Those A319s are ideal for ASL. And the cheap fuel price almost neutralizes completely the extra fuel burn per seat that they have compared with the A320s.
Pro:
+ lot of Serbian nationality in Zadar surrounding
+ lot of real estates of Serbian citizens in Zadar surrounding
+ family connections Serbia-Croatia are mostly in Zadar area
+ tourism
+ not so good connection opportunity from ZAD (Croatia 14 flights weekly, Lufthansa MUC 3 flights weekly, LOT 2 flights weekly)
+ Air Serbia desperately needs more feeding routes especially for JFK flights
Con:
- Split is very near, just 45 minutes driving by highway so it makes since to open more flights to SPU than to combine SPU+ZAD
- Zadar is not so big airport and city as Split
- potential passengers from Zadar catchment area (200 km) can use Split or Pula, as those airports are in 450 km distance and can service Zadar area (from Karlobag to Vodice to use SPU, from Sinj to Rijeka to use PUY).
- even ZAG is just 2 hours driving from SPU by highway
But for sure Air Serbia should lease more ATR and should fly to feeding routes especially:
- Ohrid
- Mostar
- Zadar
- Rijeka
- Maribor (Graz area including)
As Air Serbia should have at least 2 flights per day to any big city in region for feeding its routes it should combine smaller airports that are near as one “big city”. So Air Serbia should have 2 daily flights to:
- LJU
- ZAG
- SJJ
- SKP
- TGD
- TIA
- TIV
- PRN
And combination of flights like
morning wave: SPU 1-3-5-7 + ZAD -2-4-6-
evening wave: SPU -2-4-6- + ZAD 1-3-5--
And that should be for:
- ZAD+SPU
- RJK+PUY
Of course that should not make sense if ZAD+SPU or PUY+RJK area does not have enough potential passengers for double daily flights. But Air Serbia should find way to attract those passengers or to change all system of waves if there are not enough potential passengers in feeding destinations to feed BEG hub and connections to Europe, Middle East and JFK.
During winter all those 2 daily flights should be 12x weekly and SPU and DUB should be at least 3 flights per week each (of course not the same day).
I would have recommended them leasing another A320 but with their shrinking hub network it would be unwise, at least for now.
* since = sense
JU can not sit and wait for the competition to eat its market share.
Is is sad.
Not trying to make the discussion political but I doubt very much that the Croatian government would give subsidiaries to Air Serbia anytime soon.
And the competitors say "thank you Dane" and expand themselves.
I dok Split vrtoglavo raste (200.000 novih putnika u 2016.) Zadar pada u broju putnika. Uz to bez ogromnih subvencija brojka od 480.000 putnika ne bi bila ni izbliza tolika (daju se milijunski iznosi za Ryanair ali i druge prijevoznike da lete u ZAD), a isto nema gotovo nikakvog utjecaja na Split (subvencije za splitske letove su minimalne, daleko manje nego za ZAD).
Jednostavno Split je daleko bolja opcija za prijevoznika, a istovremeno ova dva aerodroma su na samo 45 minuta razmaka. Što znači da potencijalni prijevoznik može bez imalo problema hendlati preko Splita sve od Karlobaga do Makarske, dok Zadar na jug ima konkurenciju Splita (teško će se netko iz Trogira, Omiša, Makarske odlučiti na ZAD), a na sjever ima tek mali broj minijaturnih turistički neprivlačnih gradića (Starigrad, Karlobag, Senj, Novalja) koji gravitiraju Zadru, jer sve nakon toga (Novi Vinadolski, Crikvenica, Jadranovo, Rab, Lošinj, Cres) će prije koristiti Rijeku, čak i Pulu (Crikvenica autoputom 140 km) nego Zadar (lokalnom cestom 180 km).
Naravno, svaki prijevoznik (ali i tour operater) će radije hendlati jedan aerodrom sa više frekvencija jer mu je to daleko jeftinije, te omogućiti autobusne konekcije na krajnje destinacije (iz SPU za Biograd, Zadar, Nin, Pag...)
http://www.exyuaviation.com/2015/10/ryanair-to-expand-zadar-base.html
It is not real that Croatian government would give subsidiaries to Air Serbia not because of political reasons (in same logic they will not have promo in Serbia, Belgrade tourist fair...). It is about tourist potentials and priorities (and for sure potential tourist from UK, France, Germany or Switzerland is better option for Croatia than Serbian one).
In same time political reasons will be on with new right conservative and nationalist government instead of left socialist one which was on for last 4 years.
It's too late now to launch IKA, they are late. I read that LO will most likely start the route three times per week with their Dreamliner!
Kao sto mi neki kazu da lazem za 4 A319 ne lazem bila je prica kao i sto je bilo da ce doci 2 ATR ali je dosao 1.
INN-NS
Mene samo zanima sta planiraju da rade letos. Evo, vec je sredina januara. Kako ce izgurati sezonu sa carterima, nepouzdanim Atrovima i nategnutim saobracajem.
A i takodje problem je sto se u srbiji sve sporo radi i uvek se kaze nije isplativo.
INN-NS
Ali na kraju krajeva eto im sada kada su ih poslusali. Smanjenje reda letenja NIJE povecalo popunjenost i poboljsalo finansijsku situaciju.
Ja sam ubedjen da je WAW sledeca linija koja ce postati sezonska ili u potpunosti ukinuta.
Pozdrav iz Belvila.
To bi bilo supe! Sa 51% ucesca drzavnog novca i ostalih dugovanja prema aerodromu i drzavi :)
2015 - 1.452.465pax +20,20%
Congratulations to SKP, TAV airports and the government.
In November is was 11.2% up.
It would be nice to make a list of all the ex-Yu airports once every airport has announced its yearly totals.
Why don't we read titles about Air Serbia 'thinking' of Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara, Madrid, Odessa, Kishinev, Kiev, Lvov, Baku, Erevan, Tehran, Olbia, Cairo, Ankara, Amman... without any commitment but at least thinking of options that have long-ago became the norm for any transfer airline in South and East Europe but which for Air Serbia sound like a dream. Well, the catastrophic LF to many destinations and resulting finances does not and it is precisely ignoring the other side of the coin that leads to it. New York will certainly not be the ace or the jackpot that'll turn the tides upside-down, it may be yet another dream turning nightmare without those obvious connections and expansion in the only logical direction.
Sve destinacije sto ste naveli trebale su se odavno da lete ako se ima neki cilj u glavi i vizija ali nema sto je velika steta.
Takodje je trebalo jos nekoliko RJ doadti i A319 pre dolaska A330.
INN-NS
Emirates just announced that it will increase ATH to double daily while the additional flight will be routed via Larnaca!
This will increase the number of weekly flights between LCA and ATH from 33 to 40!
11.50-13.35
16.15-19.30
The current Larnaca-Malta route will be dropped. Pretty cool to have a widebody back on this route (a three class B773!).
Here is the correction:
http://airlineroute.net/2016/01/12/ek-mla-mar16/
So the DXB-LCS-MLA routing continues.
DXB-ATH remains daily direct. No info if it will increase.
"By linking the new service to our existing Dubai-Larnaca flight, Emirates becomes the only airline to operate a wide-body aircraft on the popular Larnaca-Athens route,"
The worst of all is not trying to capture piece of the market in Tehran. Of course it could lead to failure, but it would be a better decision then to go to JFK before having destinations in Spain or having only 1 destination in Russia, no Ukraine flights and so on.
NOT!
SKP prosle godine 220.000 novih putnika
BEG prosle godine 130.000 novih putnika
Ovi podaci dovoljno govore, zar ne?
EY71 this morning AUH-BEG upgauged to A320 and left full in all cabins.
JU801 is expected to be just above 75% CLF.
DXB-ATH currently is a 2 class B77W, and every year for a couple of months there is an addition flight on the A330 in the afternoon.
As for the ex-YU, EK seems to be doing well in Eastern Europe, with PRG, WAW and now BUD. OTP is rumoured as next, followed with BEG, but lets see. It will be interesting to see what happens as the A343 and A345 will be removed from the fleet this year and only 9 A330's are expected to remain. I believe the B772's will be gone as well this year.
ERJ, CSeries and SSJ would be perfect additions to the fleet, with a bulk purchase by the EY group easily possible to bring down the price of purchase. This would free ATR's and A319's for expansion, as well as to improve its product and offering.
But more can be done with existing capacity, as mentioned maybe introducing a second daily IST in the midnight wave to feed the morning wave in BEG, as well as using additional rights for ESB. AER would easily fit into the midnight wave, has a small O&D market yet has a large potential to draw decent transit pax from
both sides. KWI is something that JU should really consider as Serbia and eapecially Bosnia is very popular amongst Kuwaiti's, and think O&D alone could do well.
As for Iran, there is quite the increase for IKA and Iran is a latge country, I dont think it is late, however Iran has quite a number of other cities that could see potential, which has been grabing the attention of TK.
No, ove godine BEG ima jedan od najlošijih rezultata u regiji. Daleko lošiji od ZAG, PRN, SKP, SPU, OTP, BUD, ATH... a uzevši u obzir postotke (ne i realne brojke, naravno) i od DBV, SJJ, TGD, RJK.
I to treba biti alarmantno. Kao što je bilo alarmantno u svim ostalim gradovima kada se to desilo, pa su ljudi nešto poduzeli. Samo u Srbiji ljudi tvrde da je to super i da ništa ne treba poduzeti.
EK has been trying to get LCA-ATH rights for the longest time now. This will work wonderfully because the Emirates brand is extremely strong in both Greece and Cyprus- who knows, maybe at some point we get to see the A380 on this route. :P
I agree with RUH, flydubai takes care of the ex-YU region. I seriously can't see how EK could fill a plane at any of the airports around here. Even if they ask for 5th freedom rights, I highly doubt they would get it.
Malo si se zabrojao, rast na BEG nije 13, vec 3 procenta u 2015 godini