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| Sarajevo, Belgrade and Podgorica affected by Swiss cuts |
Swiss International Air Lines will suspend flights from Geneva to Sarajevo next month and is likely to do the same with its Geneva - Belgrade route, just a few months after terminating services between Zurich and Ljubljana. Furthermore, the Swiss carrier's subsidiary, Edelweiss Air, will suspend its seasonal summer flights between Zurich and Podgorica, launched last year, and has terminated ticket sales on the route. It comes following Swiss' aggressive expansion into the former Yugoslavia in the summer of 2015 when it launched services from Zurich to Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo and Podgorica (operated by Edelweiss), as well as flights from Geneva to Sarajevo and Skopje (also operated by Edelweiss).
The Swiss carrier is scheduled to operate its last service from Geneva to Sarajevo on Sunday, April 17. The airline maintained two weekly flights between the two cities last summer and operated a one weekly service during the winter. However, flights on the route have been cancelled on several occasions over the past two months. The carrier will continue to maintain its flights from Zurich to the Bosnian capital. On the other hand, Swiss will resume two weekly flights between Geneva and Belgrade on March 29. The service turns seasonal as of this year. However, only flights until April 16 have been scheduled for operation and the airline is still considering whether to terminate the route altogether from mid-April onwards. Tickets for flights beyond April have not been put up for sale. Swiss competes against budget airline easyJet on the route.
In January, Swiss suspended its Zurich - Ljubljana service just nine months following the route's initial launch. In a statement last year, Swiss told EX-YU Aviation News, “The former Yugoslav market is very interesting for Swiss, as there is a big community from the Balkan area living in Switzerland. Therefore, there is a high demand for flights to these countries. We focus on our customer’s needs from and to Switzerland. The growth is based on our market analysis that identified a great demand for the Balkan area”. Edelweiss Air, which last year launched seasonal flights from Zurich to Podgorica, competing directly against Montenegro Airlines on the route, will not resume the service this summer. Other Swiss and Edelweiss flights have not been affected.
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Blitzkrieg against Etihad Regional is finished and Etihad project in Switzerland is total fiasco, which is totally destroyed. Etihad regional has just 4 planes in fleet (out of 20), cancel 2/3 of all routes, terminate 4 of 5 bases, fly to just 6 destinations all year... Now Etihad Regional fly just to feeding destinations from Zurich Etihad flights with just 2 flights per day and for sure Etihad will force that to stay for feeding their Abu Dhabi flights.
Price last in Swiss presence: 99€.
Haplek
Its true however that Swiss' Ex_Yu expansion was a reaction to Darwin
There you go, yet another airline which JU has forced out of BEG....
A u ostalom cim je postignut dogovor sa EY oni su postigli dogovor sa OS o iznajmljivanju Q400 .
INN-NS
Zanimljivo je da ce TK imati nekim danima preko 5 letova dnevno iz Turske za VIE . GRZ povecavaju na svakodnevno a SZG ide 10 pw sto je dobar potez TK naspram drugih da pokupe pare i trziste osvoje dok su drugi ne zaintresovani.
INN-NS
Pričam gluposti?
Sad lete za AB i AZ sta tu hvali.
INN-NS
INN-NS
redovnim poslovanjem. Nisu manji nekoliko saabova i par atr-ova i to je to. Svis, Rinolist, Helvetica, Germania Flug, pa tek onda Darvin i to je to ab ima svoje tamo ali lete pod njihovim znakom. sky walk samo sto se nije ugasiao, a leteli su valjda Beg.
INN-NS
Low price is king when it comes to people either local or diaspora choosing flights.
1. Etihad je ulaskom u Darvin najavio čuda, pokrenuo nekoliko desetaka linija, povečao flotu, otvorio baze, krenuo mijenjati Sabbove sa ATR 72.
2. Swiss je kao direktan odgovor samo par mjeseci kasnije pokrenuo velik broj regionalnih linija željevši uništiti samu inicijativu u startu. Nemalo visokopozicioniranih ljudi u samom Swissu ovo su i sami rekli, možete pročitati niz analiza koje su jasno govorili da se ovdje radi isključivo o udaru na Darwin da bi se preduhitrilo regionalno širenje i kasnije ozbiljne posljedice na Swiss. No, lakše je ne čitati analize i ne pratiti činjenice, nego iznositi optužbe bez osnova.
3. Kao posljedice direktnih Swissovih mjera Darwin je u samo dvije godine uspio pasti na samo 4 aviona. Čak se za mjesec dana ukida i posljednja baza u Berlinu i prekida suradnja sa Air Berlinom. ATR-ovi su prebačeni na Alitaliju, dio flote razbacan na druge Etihadove kompanije, otpuštena je većina djelatnika, ukinuta većina linija, zatvorene sve baze koje su otvarane od Etihada.
4. Osim direktnog udara Swiss je uspio izlobirati ukidanje ugovora kojim su švicarske kompanije mogle letjeti iz Italije za treća tržišta čime je totalno uništio plan u kojem je Darwin trebao letjeti za Alitaliju i za treće destinacije, nakon čega se ukinula jedna baza i masa linija Darwina iz Italije. E sad na to treba dodati i politički pritisak koji je izlobirala Lufthansa na ukidanje ogromnog broja code-share ugovora Air Berlina i Etihada + svi oni silni postupci pred EU pa dolazimo do točke 5...
5. Sve to što se desilo Etihad Regionalu od strane Swissa samo je dio širokog plana koji Lufthansa provodi (glavna okosnica je Eurowings) a koji ima prvenstveni cilj udarac na Air Berlin (samim time i na Etihad), sekundarni na ostale LCC, a tercijalni na MEB3 (i opet na Etihad).
A koji je vaš argument, jel napisati "pišete gluposti" nije argument to je karakteriziranje u nedostatku argumenata. Volio bih pročitati bar jedan argument sa vaše strane!
It was nice possibility to combine both easyjet and Swiss on my way from Beg to GVA or further using wide network that easyjet has from GVA hub.
I combined last year BEG-GVA-LIS-MAD-GVA-BEG with both companies...
It will be really waste if they cancel it!
This doesn't make any seance to me...
Odkud on zna majke ti?
How is JP going to deliver its own schedule if it is leasing all its fleet out to other airlines ?
Као што је Анон 21.16 написао, летови средом крећу тек од 22.06. Средом ће се летети и око Ускрса, то јест те две недеље. Ако је датум важан ту је и Ер Србија која креће да лети за неких месец дана (ако не грешим) мада и даље са оним криминалним временима.
Анон 22.26
Хмм... живео сам 14 година доле и редовно посећујем острво.