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| Kiev Airport announces new Air Serbia flights |
Kiev's Boryspil International Airport has announced that Air Serbia will launch flights from Belgrade to the Ukrainian capital this summer season. Boryspil Airport's spokeswoman, Oksana Ozhigova, said plans are currently in place for the Serbian carrier to commence operations on June 2. Flights will initially operate three times per week, before gradually increasing to six weekly services. Ms Ozhigova added that besides Air Serbia, new arrivals at Boryspil Airport this summer will include Aegean Airlines, which will introduce flights from both Athens and Larnaca, as well as Mahan Air from Tehran and Ellinair from Heraklion. Last month, Air Serbia's Chairman, Siniša Mali, said the carrier was considering inaugurating services to Kiev, while in January, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Serbia, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, noted that flights between the two capital cities would launch this summer.
Air Serbia itself has not issued an official statement on the new route launch and flights are yet to be loaded into the system. Ukraine's Aerosvit Airlines suspended services between Kiev and the Serbian capital in June 2011 citing "technical reasons". The carrier has since filed for bankruptcy. On the other hand, Air Serbia cancelled plans to launch daily flights to the Ukrainian capital from May 29, 2014 due to security reasons, stating at the time, "The safety of our guests and crew is paramount to the airline". Meanwhile, direct flights between Ukraine and Russia have been discontinued since last October. Foreign carriers are now benefiting, with some 680.000 passengers, who travel between the two countries by air, now seeking alternatives. Foreign airlines operating flights to both Ukraine and Russia have seen this as a drawcard for boosting services to Kiev.
Air Serbia will increase frequencies on a number of routes in its network this summer, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Bucharest, Dusseldorf, Sofia, Dubrovnik, Pula and Split. It will also resume other seasonal flights such as Malta and Varna. The airline has so far confirmed it will introduce services from Belgrade to New York on June 23, while the Mayor of Ohrid has said Air Serbia will inaugurate seasonal summer flights to the lakeside city this June, following talks with the carrier last week. Meanwhile, officials from Bihor County in Romania told the "Bihor Online" portal that they are continuing their talks with Air Serbia over potential services from Belgrade to Oradea, which, according to them, would commence in autumn. The 2016 summer season begins on March 27.
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As far as Aegean goes, they are not really launching Kiev flights, they are just changing airports.
Air Serbia are counting on transfer passengers between Ukraine and Russia. In the same time Siberian Airlines (S7) are in advanced talks over acquiring a Bulgarian company in order to bypass the Ukraininan\Russian restrictions. Bulgaria Air have just created a new company called BUL Air which is the subject of those talks.
Furthermore, Dniprovia announced that the seasonal line to SOF from KBP will be converted to year-round from late March with 3x weekly flights.
Greetings from Ukraine.
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Don´t you tell me Skoplje has better business links to BCN then Belgrade please. I mean even seasonaly Madrid or Barcelona would really be good choice, cos I perosnally know many ppl flying from Budapest on those routes.
Sofia as well with 3x weekly operated by Dniprovia.
So, I don't think that you can compare...
http://tass.ru/en/economy/860227
Shame on you BEG.
- "Croatia Airlines to launch Milan service"
published February 4
- "Croatia Airlines to launch Prague service"
published February 19
- "Croatia Airlines plans St. Petersburg service"
published February 25
- "Croatia Airlines to launch Lisbon flights in May"
published March 1
When these routes were simply scheduled, the news was published in the news flash section, with full schedules available on the right hand side in the new route launches section since yesterday.
Concerning today's news, it was confirmed by an airport spokesperson, making it a bit more than a "rumour" as you suggest. Once it is scheduled, it will be published in the news flash section, as it has already been announced.
If you have any further quires in regards to the editorial policy, don't hesitate to contact exyu@exyuaviation.com
That same Wizz Air - with its guts and a good financial sheet - can open BEG-BCN literally overnight if they wish. But they don't do it. Which means they did their math and concluded that BEG catchment area does not create enough demand for a year-round service to BCN.
Now, it could be that the SKP catchment area is very rich compared to that of BEG and they can easily afford city breaks in Barcelona throughout the year.
Or it could be that Wizz's math in SKP has some variables their math in BEG does not have. And thanks to these variables they can keep BCN year-round.
Dubrovnik - Ukraine international
Pula - Ukraine international and Windrose
Split - Ukraine international and Windrose
Tivat - Avatrans, Ukraine international and Windrose
To Tivat you have flights from other Ukraine airports:
Avatrans: Kiev-Zhulyany, Lviv, Odessa
Ukraine international: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa, Zaporizhia
Windrose: Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa
EPIC fail!
It has to do with SKP airport management being capable and BEG airport management being incapable more than anything else.
A delay is probable for the EU visa free policy for Ukraine passport holders :(
G Purger sta mislite ko ce odneti pobedu u LED , ja mislim ASL ako bude imala vise od 3-4 pw leta.
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Cheers!
=D .
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What exactly is the role of the BEG management there? If Wizz think BEG-BCN would work for them, all they have to do is apply and they will get it.
If they don't apply and don't see the route would work for them, what is it that BEG management can do? Invite them to a meeting and show them some presentation that promotes the route? I am afraid Wizz are able to do their homework and cannot be persuaded just like that.
That leaves cash (because money talks) as the only 'capable' thing BEG management can do. Direct cash subsidies or special prices in BEG. However, Serbian government chose to fund its own carrier rather than LCCs, therefore BEG management cannot offer any incentives to Wizz. Wizz can only open BEG-BCN if there is enough demand among passengers for it.
BEG management are a bunch of incompetent fools, but I would really like to read your suggestions on what is exactly that they can do to make any carrier open BEG-BCN?
http://www.avianews.com/ukraine/2016/03/3_lot_kharkiv_firstflight.shtml
Februar 2016
Broj avio operacija: 3.924 - 3.898 -1%
Broj putnika: 264.813 - 266.260 +1%
Roba: 795.090 1.246.689kg +57%
As for SKP having BCN due to airport management being capable.. don't even get me started. Just take TAV out of the equation altogether.
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29 days = 29 * 9457,60 = 274.271
2016 (29 days): 266.260
difference 2016/2015 (29 days) = 8.011 pax
Negative 8.011 pax = 3% decline
Simple as that.
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Didn't someone mention that FZ was performing rather badly in SKP?
Not sure how FZ performs in ZAG/BEG with QR increase and how and if will QR new SYD and ADL affect them considering superior QR frequencies?
This could also be one of the reasons why QR is rushing to position itself in all of these markets. They know that it will be a difficult war fighting both Turkish Airlines and whatever Iranian airline emerges as the dominant player (my money is on Mahan).
On top of all that, there are also airlines such as Pegasus and Atlasjet which are slowly becoming important regional players. One can only imagine what will happen once the new airport in Istanbul becomes fully functional!
With Saudia consolidating and the emergence of Iran, one can wonder what will happen with Etihad which is currently the weakest airline among the MEB3.
im not asking for then-growth, im asking for absolute numbers of FEb 2012 and their relation to Feb 2016 numbers. #pravimoseludi
actually, back in 2012 we had JU in its absolute worse state when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. So with a national carrier in that state for teh airport to record a 7% growth is really good. To have an airline backed by EY and with foreign management to fail to record any growth is pathetic.
Am very curious to see how QR develops further in ex YU in a year or two! Major advantage over EK is having narrow body in this case.
As for EY, I think they are slowly lagging behind, at least in size. Time will tell if their 'alliance based on investments' strategy will hold and yield results and give them overall netwrok advantage over QR.
Seems that QR will announce 12 new routes during ITB next week - they are in full swing at the moment.
There is a new entrant on the market and it's Oman Air. It will be interesting to see how far they will go in mirroring what others have done. I fear that soon there might be too many seats/airlines in this particular region and someone will have to lose. I don't think anyone will go bankrupt but it's not easy when you have two ego-maniac airlines in the region chronically competing at who will operate the longest flight or whatever first they can get. Not to mention that Emirates with all of their A380s will become a monster.
Before Iran opens up, Etihad must build an efficient hub and they must grow because later on might become a bit too late. Just look at what TK has been doing to them.
As far as ex-YU goes, we might end up profiting the most from this ego-war. Flydubai might clash with Qatar resulting in dirt cheap fares.
I wish I knew how does FZ in BEG and ZAG do when we remove DXB bound traffic!
I think that MEB3 went too far already for WY and the likes, but they can definitely grow more over geo position and copy/paste strategy.
Da dodam svoje misljene kada ASL otvori rutu za LED Croatia ce je ukinut i pre pocetka.
What Nemjee have described is the pure reality.
T6 OBJAVIO NOVO OTKAZIVANJE PORUDZBINE SSJ100. PO SVEMU SUDECI TO JE UVOD U SKORI KRAJ PROJEKTA.
Can somebody please tell me where you can find seat maps for Air Serbia's jfk flights? I cannot find them anywhere... thank you.
OU701 LIS1105 - 1515ZAG 100 135
OU390 ZAG1745 - 1925MXP DH4 257
OU391 MXP2000 - 2130ZAG DH4 257
OU320 ZAG0820 - 0950PRG DH4 X135
OU321 PRG1040 - 1205ZAG DH4 x135
OU530 ZAG1420 - 1800LED 319 47
OU531 LED1900 - 2050ZAG 319 47
http://www.airserbia.com/en-RS/our-fleet
http://www.exyuaviation.com/p/croatia-airlines-schedules-new-flights.html
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A za ASL najbolje bi bilo da ima Flotu samo od A321 i A330 kao sto je jednom G Stojanovic napisao ali to ne razumeju ljudi koji ne znaju .
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The reason why I didn't mention TK in my previous comments is because I put them in the same category as the Iranian ones while the discussion was mostly on the MEB3 and their future.
Pegasus is adding another 5 B738 to their fleet and they have already built a nice hub at SAW. It will be interesting to see how things develop in that region, ATH included. What will be especially interesting to see is what Pegasus and Atlasjet do once the new airport is built. Will they move some of their operations there and how aggressively will they expand. Onur Air is another carrier that has shown interest at establishing a true hub system but it was extremely difficult because of space restrictions at IST.
Finally, I don't think it would be a good thing for JU to go after European passengers who would be connecting at BEG and AUH on their way to Asia. These would be extremely low-yielding and that is one group of travelers JU could do without.
Hub susav je odlična stvar, ali kakve to veze ima sa Etihadom koji feeda SVOJ hub u ABU DHABIU?
It was also announced that there will be more links to Iran by Ukrainian airlines:
KBP-IKA-KBP 2x from end of March, Dniproavia
DNK-IKA-DNK, 1x weekly by Dniproavia
Kiev-Shiraz-Kiev, 3x weekly by UIA
Mind you, UIA already increased IKA to daily and has replaced the E95 with a B737. If I am not mistaken they are the second European airline to launch a secondary Iranian city after Austrian Airlines announced Esfahan.
Really interesting developments.
From what I could see, flights will operate on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Most flights will depart IKA at 09.00 and arrive to DBV at 17.10.
Svako uvodi IKA trebalo bi i ASL dok ne osvoje drugi previse to trziste.
I sta mislis Nemjee sto uporno nece da uvedu taj let neverujem da je mnogo zbog EY.
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An extract from the article mentionning PS plans for Shiraz:
"Shiraz, which only sees flights from international carriers like Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines will benefit huge from the new route to Kiev. The most used gateway from Europe to Shiraz is via the one daily flight offered by Turkish Airlines. Turkish Airlines has expressed its interest in increasing flights to Shiraz. However, with UIA having the same key destinations as Turkish Airline, example such as London, Paris, Frankfurt and Stockholm, the airline can be a threath to the monopolized Turkish Airlines route to Shiraz. UIA currently offers daily flights from the mentioned European capitals to Tehran with competitive prices, reasonable transit times and on board products. UIA could, and is going by high chance to apply the same concept on the 3 weekly flights to Shiraz, and gain a bit of the market share from Turkish Airlines. UIA will of course compete with Qatar Airways too, however, the competition UIA is entering is more in the field where Turkish Airlines currently enjoys the profits. It is worth mentioning that UIA recently increased its flights to Tehran."
(in a good way, of course)
Another option would be for Air Serbia to fly to places not served by the Etihad group which is Shiraz, Tabriz, Esfahan...all that pending government approvals and ratification of a new ASA.
Ali zato TK leti 2x dnevno za AMM, i to je najmanje jedan od tih letova sa A330. A3 povećava frekvencije, OS je redovan, mislim da ruta ima ozbiljan potencijal.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/hungary-opens-door-for-emirates-to-provide-lost-air-link-to-u-s
Without checking the details, I would suggest Etihad should entertain the offer, with condition that flights could be operated by Etihad Partner metal with 5th freedom granted to country of that Etihad Partner.
Then get Air Serbia to fly BEG-BUD-MIA or BEG-BUD-LAX etc, with JFK, ORD and YYZ being flown direct from BEG. I know that one stop flights are not the most efficient, but seems worth it to get Air Serbia long haul bigger than LO and possibly OS in no time.
Isto tako sam ti reko da je A321 all fleet glupost jer to nema niko, čak ni LCC, a još manje AF, BA, LH, TK... čak ni Etihad koji je tebi sve nema samo A321 nego mu 21% flote čine A320 i A319. Air Serbia bi bila valjda jedina kompanija u svetu da leti samo sa A321.
Tako da ne izokrečeš stvari Marko.
Comparing BEG to BUD is ridiculous...