NEWS FLASH
The Serbian Minister for Finance, Siniša Mali, has announced that the French concession and construction company VINCI will take control of Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport by the end of the year, when it will make its payment for the 25-year concession. Previously, the Ministry for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure noted the takeover would take place between September and November. As part of the 1.5 billion euro deal, VINCI has offered 501 million euros to manage the airport and a further 732 million as an investment. In addition, it will pay an annual fee of up to sixteen million euros. During the first five years, VINCI is obliged to invest 500 million out of the total 732 million euros. VINCI itself will outline its development plans for the airport once it takes over.
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Previously informed = between September and November
Exactly there
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2018/03/vinci-signs-belgrade-airport-concession.html
Read the last paragraph of the text.
On the other hand, Sofia Airport finally will be given to concession next month - 22nd October 2018. Lets see what happens there too.
"The French company has said it plans to take control of the airport by September 2018, following the financial close of the concession deal"
It is good that the company like U2 spreads its wings in Belgrade and we hope they might open a base here. It is for sure Vinci will not forbid them to do it, but opposite.
http://www.easyjet.com/en/schedule-release
Maybe INI will finally be considered....
In the region, PRN has up to 3 daily flights!
In SOF, they will launch second London airport SEN and BRS, which used to be operated by W6.
MAN is obviously doing extremely well. Also tried VAR during summer and worked for them.
SKG + ATH of course because of Stelios :P
I think SKP, INI, ZAG should really be the next airports!
Are you including Aviolet or you're referring to ASL and Wizz?
I see easyJet or Ryanair as serious potential candidates, what do you think?
First it was September then from September to November and now December
They knew in January they need to cough up amount they offered
So what is your point?
We can't include Skopje to the list because it's a mono base.
First of all, Sofia is not ex-YU and second of all Air Serbia is much larger and better run than Bulgaria Air. Also, SOF is only booming because of FR-W6 rivalry. BEG on the other hand is growing organically and next year it will have 6.4 million of hard earn guests passing through its doors.
Read the news entry again!
"During the first five years, VINCI is obliged to invest 500 million out of the total 732 million euros." As investment does not make sense if there is no return after 8 years they would need to make profit after tax of 125 mil!
Sof growth is also about legacy and charters. Not sure? Do some checks and see how many Bulgarian charter companies there are. You'll be surprised.
Them Frenchies love to sell the product at its best and then talk bullocks.
South Korea or Turkey should have won the bid.
Compare Skopje growth run by Turks vs Zagreb run by French.
I know the truth hurts, but Turks are masters when it comes to running airports. I will also add the Germans with the remarkable growth in Ljubljana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmNKQ1W6rg
Turks know very well, what Beg needs and what it doesn't. Koreans are clever too and know how the market is evolving...but the French??? French have been good at making cars, planes, perfumes, cheese, wine but airport management is not their stake.
I hope I am wrong of course.
SOF was behind BEG before W6 and FR started war there. No matter if it is ex yu or not it is very good example how FR is not afraid to open the base on the aiport that is already base of W6 and one more carrier.
So we still do not have the answer why FR avoids BEG
Both airports had similar figures most of the times until the arrival of Ryan in Sof in 2016.
But Ryan never based any new a/c in the region because of Wizz, true.
Timisoara base closed, Oradea, Craiova and Plovdiv soon out, Burgas becomes like Zadar, etc.
Wizz is very clever and knows the terrain much better than Ryan, but that doesn't mean that BEG-STN cannot work out or busy Belgrade routes to compete with Wizz, like: BVA, NYO, FMM, HHN, etc.
And if Serbia was EU member, flights to Jordan, Israel, Canary Islands would've worked perfect.
This where Vlaisavljevic made a statement of BEG going from 5.3 to 15 mil in 5 years.@""
Vlaisavljevic is a complete moron. Professor of economics Savich, is sitting there and wonder wtf just happened. Savich, passengers need to come from somewhere, Romania, 3 times larger country, 3.5 million strong diaspora. Serbia hasn't got even third of that.
Vlaisavljevic, direct flights to Tokyo, Brazil, South America, 15 million passengers in 5 years ... The guy has gone completely mad.
BEG on the other hand has been growing quite steadily and what matters the most is that JU has stabilized its operations so it will make it easier for them to grow in the future.
By the way, TSR losing FR is great news for BEG as many Romanians from western Romania use BEG. It's not uncommon to see many Romanian buses at 05.00 just before the first flights leave.
I hope once French come that BEG will handle 6.5 million as it will be far more competitive compared to other airports it competes with.
SOF we will have to see how they perform this winter and next summer. They lost many destinations. Seems like there was overcapcity and market stimulation through extremely low fares.
Ok, I agree that BEG and SOF are the airports who had similiar number of passengers in the past.
Therefore the argument that FR cannot open the base at the aiport that already has W6 or local airline base is fully wrong. SOF is the best example for it. Of course not all the destinations will be successful, but a bunch of them will stay.
Could you please let me know why on Earth it is not possible FR or W6 to fly from BEG to Canary Islands although Serbia is not yet EU member?
If I am not mistaken BEG was in 2007.
You do know Turks also are part of the team that runs Zagreb airport, in fact first transition boss was Turkish. The route manager is Turkish.