NEWS FLASH
The Croatian Minister for Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Oleg Butković, announced this morning that Croatia Airlines will begin its search for a strategic partner later this year. Speaking at a buisness summit in Zagreb, Mr Butković said, "Croatia Airlines has undergone the restructuring process and has since improved its finances and launched new routes. However, the only solution for the carrier is to seek a strategic partner. This will be one of the most important topics in our aviation industry in the coming period. The ministry, jointly with Croatia Airlines' management, will begin looking for potential investors this year". Croatia Airlines was put up for sale in 2014, however, no interest was expressed during an international tender. Last year, the carrier's CEO noted that an investor would be required in order for the company to grow faster. By mid-2017, a proposal was drafted for the privatisation process and several airlines across the world had been contacted. However, there has been no progress on the matter since.
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If OU was doing fine they why would they need a strategic partner??
Maybe Agrokor could buy OU. Oh, wait ...
JU does not have domestic traffic and OU has it.
Until October 2017 JU was flying to Abu Dhabi and for that rotation JU needed almost 12 hours. During these 12 hours OU could have made many ZAG-DBV-ZAG or ZAG-SPU-ZAG rotations transporting with 1 plane many more passengers than JU could have on one plane flying BEG-AUH-BEG.
And JU was flying daily to AUH.
This kind of comparison is surely not the indicator of successful (or not) business
The diapers are irrelevant to this discussion as we are talking about Arab investment in JU.
By the way, your Pliva employees are earning less than JU flight attendants, so much for that. lol
And btw how much are people making in Agrokor these days?
According to the rumours before 2013 Aeroflot was interested in Jat Airways, even Air Baltic purchased documentation for Jat Airways take over, but the result was zero. Then the political deal with EY was made and JU got strategic partner in 2013.
From the other side we see once per quarter the information that OU wants to find strategic partner and it keeps repeating without any final result. In OU case we also had many rumours saying that Lufthansa, Turkish, Garuda, Aegean and who not are interested in OU, but the result was, like with Jat Airways, zero.
Either political deal or someone like 4K (who will insist to be paid to take over OU) will be (or not) the future of OU
Reality is that OU is a sick company. All delays, cancellations and people leaving the company are symptomatic of a bad state.
No matter how bad other ex-YU airlines are doing none is experiencing such exodus as OU.
it will be the anonymous, evil and greedy foreigners that do the layoffs and renegotiate contracts.... they can easier threaten them than locals that want to get reelected ...
All cancellations made by JU were due to bad loads, not fleet or personnel shortages.
One thing is what you wish and another thing is reality.
While you are at it, look at Purger's list of route cancellations by OU because they can't afford to service their planes.
It is somewhat higher, 10500 kuna to 11500 kuna, Pliva has lost loads of its staff, however productivity and automation have gone up dramatically. Pliva today employs only ~2500 staff, it used to employ 15000.