Air Serbia will add extra capacity to its fleet this coming summer season by wet-leasing a Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft from Estonia's Nordica. The 88-seat jet will join the Serbian carrier's fleet from June 1, enabling it to introduce nine new routes. The lease contract was concluded between Regional Jet, a joint venture between Nordica and LOT Polish Airlines, and Air Serbia for a four-month period. As a result, both aircraft and crew will be provided to the Serbian airline until October. Nordica described the deal as "good and profitable", adding that the two carriers would explore expanding their future cooperation.
This will be the second time Air Serbia has wet-leased a CRJ900 aircraft. It previously used the jet for a three-month period during its last major network expansion, in the summer of 2016, when Adria Airways provided both its crew and equipment. However, Air Serbia utilised the jet free of charge, as Adria was repaying its old debt owed to JAT Yugoslav Airlines through the deal. The Serbian carrier previously said, "The Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft offers excellent performance and passenger comfort levels, and is a great match for network expansion". The incoming aircraft will not be painted in Air Serbia's livery, while the cabin crew on board will be Estonian, with exception to an Air Serbia guest ambassador.
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| Nordica CRJ900 cabin |
Air Serbia is yet to schedule the CRJ900 within its network. During its last stint at utilising the jet three years ago, it was deployed on flights to Kiev, Hamburg and Sofia. The Serbian carrier is planning one of its busiest summers to date with the introduction of seven new year-round routes and two seasonal services, as well as an increase in frequencies on a number of destinations. Furthermore, the airline will operate close to 1.000 charters flights. In addition to the CRJ900, the carrier will maintain operations with eight Airbus A319, two A320, one A330, six ATR72 and three Boeing 737-300 aircraft. Earlier this year, the airline's part-owner Etihad Airways cancelled an order for ten A320neo jets which were destined for Air Serbia. Airbus returned the 23.5 million dollar deposit payment for the aircraft to the Serbian carrier in January.
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And they will definitely need more capacity if the intend to participate to the competition for 10 new government subsidized routes from INI.
Embraers would be an even better option but company management preferred to focus on ...prestigious JFK flights instead of getting regional aircraft.
We should have flights with enough frequencies to Ukraine, the Caucasus, Hungary, Poland and the Middle East to feed the launghaul flight.
In that case it might have been financially successful. But instead we chose to build a house starting from the roof down.
https://standbynordic.com/nordica-eyes-lots-regional-jet-stake/
JU will be flying to KBP, KRR, BEY and CAI and a lot of passengers from these destinations will connect to the JFK flight.
From the other side it looks almost for sure that JU will open PVG so all existing plus new destinations like BCN and MAD could be feeding flights to PVG
Maybe someone can say more about HEL, MAD, KRR, CAI...
The same for KRR, it will most likely survive only 1 season.
CAI and BCN will be popular, that's for sure.
What profit does JU generate?
Robusnost komercijale i know how poslovnosti... Privatne kompanije, ukljucujuci i vazduhoplovne su superiorne u uslovima mira, u odnosu na drzavno-partijskog upravljanja. Do sada u Srbiji privatizacija nije na agendi. Iskreno Srbija pocinje sa vecim naporima ulagati u razvoj infrastrukture kroz Aerodroma Srbije.
I preko koncesionara na Beogradskom aerodromu. Dolaze uspesniji dani Er Srbiji. U ovoj godini pocinje novo doba.
Za pocetak otvaranje Kraljevackog aerodroma Morava na Vidovdan. Sa aero mitingom ili bez njega. Vidovdan sa ovim dogadjajem postaje dan radovanja. Do sada Vidovdan je bio samo dan komemoracije. Komercijalno vazduhoplovstvo u Srbiji ovoga puta donosi i radost na Vidovdan. Do sada se to nije dogodilo od kada je prvi avion uzleteo i sleteo u zemlji Srbiji.
Pred let za Sydney,
Rodney. ✈☺🌞🌐✈
It had 2.3 million pax last year, a 16% increase!
Here is another one:
https://standbynordic.com/competition-forces-nordica-to-close-routes/
Look at JP still complaining regarding lease rates for the A319s they got almost a decade ago.
+1
JU can resume their flights but with much better schedule:
eff 31MAR14 Belgrade – Varna 3 weekly (1 daily from 15JUN14)
JU132 BEG0020 – 0305VAR AT7 147
JU133 VAR0520 – 0605BEG AT7 147
They can apply the SOF schedule which is really good and remained almost unchanged a since 2014:
JU122 BEG1320 – 1530SOF
JU123 SOF1600 – 1610BEG
JP have used the same schedule and worked out really well.
The market in VAR has changed a lot and cannot be compared with 2014.
Finally, LO is also launching seasonal flights for the very first time. I think they are trying the destination even if it is flown once weekly.
https://www.lot.com/bg/en/flights-varna-warsaw
JU, come back to VAR! :D
13 delivered, 17 more to go, and 50 on optiin. Air Baltic is the youngest fleet of any airline in Europe, and is sitting pretty with the Boeing max fiasco. Tall Inn is a heavy winter dedtinstion, number 1 voted Christmas market in all of Europe, and Nordica LOT, for these 2 reasons can afford to wet lease in the summer.
I loved TLL to bits, looks like a fairytale with all them castles around.
Say, I know BT is really strong in the Baltics but didn't the bankruptcy of OV in November 2015 affect the airport? They seemed to be a decent carrier.
I think JU is missing the Baltik market too. TLL now has a traffic of 3 million pax, which is quite a lot being so close to HEL. Something like VIE and BTS.
It's close geographically, but not practically.
VIE->BTS is a half an hour drive on the motorway. Getting from Tallinn to Helsinki requires you to take a 3.5h ferry ride or flying (which would also defeat your point).
Jet Airways is losing ground, losing clients and slowly being eaten by the other Indian airlines.
But, it is indeed a very good idea for JU to inherit 2-3 A330s and finally launch the long awaited PEK, YYZ and DEL.
The A330 can also be deployed to ZRH and SVO - the busiest routes.