South Korea's long haul low cost carrier Jin Air has cancelled plans to launch services from Seoul to the Serbian capital in 2020, just over a year after announcing its intention to link the two cities. In a statement to EX-YU Aviation News, an airline spokesperson said that it currently has no plans to introduce flights to Belgrade. Previously, during a press conference in Seoul, the airline's CEO, Jung-ho Choi, said services to Bucharest and Belgrade would be launched 2020. "In 2020, Jin Air plans to operate 52 domestic and international routes. In particular, plans have been made to introduce Bucharest and Belgrade in 2020", Mr Choi said at the time.
The budget airline, which launched long haul operations in December 2015, is a subsidiary of Hanjin, a holding company which also manages the national flag carrier Korean Air. It is Korea's only low cost airline to operate wide-body aircraft, with four Boeing 777-200ERs in its fleet. Jin Air utilises the aircraft on its medium and long haul network which includes Honolulu, Cairns in Australia, as well as Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. Previously, the Deputy Minister for Civil Aviation in the South Korean government, Suh Hoon-Taik, said, "There is interest on both sides to establish scheduled flights between Korea and Serbia and we will undertake a study to determine if there is sufficient demand. The prerequisite for these flights is an Air Service Agreement, which was concluded with Serbia in 2016. I will also assist in increasing cooperation between Air Serbia and Korean carriers".
During the first five months of this year there were only 1.668 Korean visitors to Serbia, representing a decrease of 21% on the same period last year. Overall, there were 5.114 Korean nationals entering Serbia in 2018. The state-owned Incheon International Airport Corporation led an unsuccessful bid for the 25-year concession of Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport in 2017. However, despite these indicators, the Serbian Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlović, recently said there was potential for nonstop flights between the two countries. Under a new Air Service Agreement between Serbia and South Korea, which replaced the one inked in 1980, both Serbian and South Korean carriers have rights to operate up to three weekly flights between the two countries.
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Very dilettante. This company's license was almost revoked last year.
The availability of a direct flight with affordable tickets would attract loads of passengers.
May: 15.583 (+31%)
01-05.2019: 40.588 (+33%)
Soon we will have more than 200.000 tourists per annum.
In 2018 USD$37 million net profit.
The middle seat in the 5 abreast must be hell. And ion a 12 hour flight!
Maybe they could open a Jin Air base in BEG (10X B737) and fill flight to Seoul, why complicate with AirSerbia?
1. Turkey
2. Israel
3. India
There are more tourists from India then from South Korea.
Creating a five minute youtube video isn't enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk7FGRnMjGQ
Walter Cho: “Jin Air is looking into expanding the long hauls. They are already flying Hawaii and we could expand that to some European cities or the US where the traffic rights are not constrained.”
“They have been asking for more [777-200s) and it is a possibility we will utilise Jin Air to compete in that market.”
More to do with market demand.
+1000
More to this?
+1
W6 has massive orders, they have to base all those NEOs somewhere.
Maybe it's time to persuade Japan and Thaiair to Belgrad.....
No need to act surprised.
Also on the topic of Koreans, interesting how the numbers dropped this year considering they're one of the nationals the government subsidizes tour operators to bring in
Also I don't see an issue funding a business you are a majority shareholder of. The question is how you use that money.
Same way Croatia approved over 100 million euros to Croatia Airlines a day before the country entered the EU.
Airlines fly here because they have financial interest to do so and not because they are paid to do it like on some airports in the neighbourhood
These are all markets within 3 flying hours of Serbia, with HUGE outbound numbers, yet they spend so much time on trying to convince Korean and Chinese tourists to come to Serbia, when they can't even do so with bigger markets much closer to home.
But wait, the per diem's are obviously not as attractive closer to home as they are in far away Asia - so of course these people need to get their priorities right :)
For everything else, there are happy tax payers :)
ostvariti. Ne postoji dovoljno jaka poslovna saradnja.
Kao ni za sada dovoljno interesantnih mesta izuzev Beograda da bi leteli dvadesetak sati, od Seula do Beograda i nazad. Verujem da se moze uspostaviti
trziste. Ali za sada u direktnim letovima sa turistickog aspekta nije izvodljivo. Poslovne i trgovinske veze su takodje minimalne da bi generisale letove...
Pa organizujte sto ste naveli u Vasem studijskom tekstu.
Sudbina Kraljeva i pista Aerodroma Morava je u Vasim rukama, verovatno?. Pominjete i tri sedmice. Da li ste misleli na Boingov B777?
Prijatno Vam leto. Cuvajte se od sucanice.
Ovo je ozbiljan forum...
Sa pozdravom Radovan. 😀
What a wise statement: Just open a route to anywhere and they will come.
'but unless the percentage will be over 100% each year, the number of Chinese visitors will still be lower.'
You are basically predicting Chinese arrivals to Croatia will not fall or will keep on growing. How did you achieve that?
Also how about we see some of those numbers you speak of.
Also, how do they know the the number of Chinese visitors will only climb and not decline, like you're mentioning that could happen in case of Croatia?
And, there were 42.700 Chinese visitors between January and April, 65% more than 2018.
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Neutral and Non-aligned countries : Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Malta, Albania, Cyprus
But than you are probably one of the group with Croatian president trying to convince us we had one type of yogurt in Yugoslavia although there were 74 brands on the market
You must be unwell from all this heat.
Go daydream some more.
Bye.
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