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Air Serbia is seeking an expert for aircraft wet-lease ACMI agreements. The individual in question would participate in all aspects of interaction with potential and selected short-term aircraft suppliers, support the ACMI negotiations process and analyse the performance of ACMI contracts during and after their completion, among others. Air Serbia has increasingly relied on ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) contracts over the past few years and currently wet-leases a number of aircraft to support its flight operations. A wet-lease is a leasing arrangement whereby the lessor provides an aircraft, complete crew, maintenance and insurance to another airline. Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, recently said, “Currently, we are looking into the longer-term strategy because leisure demand is from mid-June until mid-September, and whatever calculation you do, a dry-lease option with the additional crew for three months of operations, that mathematics doesn't work. We are looking either to make some capacity provider agreement on a long-term basis, five-plus years or trying to enter into some Joint Venture agreements with reverse-seasonality operators. We would like to have a constantly available shortlist of aircraft with pre-negotiated commercial terms and technical reviews to be able to act promptly”.
Further requirements for the ACMI expert position, as well as the application form, can be found here. The application deadline has been set for January 25.
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ReplyDeleteTheir last deal with Dan Air seems to be quite successful
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's successful but they for sure have been present for a while. They might be able to ink a longer term deal
DeleteWithout them their network would experience collapse on a daily basis.
DeleteAnd without JU DanAir’s revenue would collapse.
DeleteSo far their aircrafts probably have more flying hours for ''Air Serbia'' than for Dan Air.
DeleteThe other day both of Air Montenegro's E190s were flying for Air Serbia.
ReplyDeleteIt will be a norm for this airline. In summer E190, ATR, 737 and 319 with a 23 airline fleet. Very efficient don't you think, dear?
DeleteCan you not use "dear". It sounds really condescending and wrong.
DeleteWow, on which routes?
DeleteThis is definitely the long term issue for JU, in the middle of winter season they're missing 3-4 aircrafts.
737 and E190 would be wet lease so no issues with maintenance and resourcing for 4/5 AC types
DeleteThey are leasing planes because Jat Tehnika is a mess and taking weeks to service aircraft due to lack of workforce. They have started sending planes to Istanbul instead now.
DeleteYeah, they can have 23 aircraft types through wet lease, it doesn’t matter as they do not deal with crew/maintenance.
DeleteDo you really expect someone calling you "dear" to understand the difference between the fleets airlines actually operate, and ones ACMI leased?
DeleteI like how on every flight operated on behalf of Air Serbia by another airline they say "This flight is operated by an Air Serbia partner airline and aircraft and we apologise if it does not meet the standards you are accustomed to on Air Serbia" :D
ReplyDeleteMakes no big difference on European routes to be honest, the real disappointment experienced passengers to JFK on Wamos' A330.
DeleteWell, it does make a big difference when you purchase a full-fare business ticket, are left without the catering, and suddenly sit in Economy without a free middle seat. The compensation is a joke compared to the fare difference between economy and business. This happened to me several times this year with DanAir. Air Baltic is offering full business service, including duty-free sales on the flights they operate for Swiss. It shouldn't be difficult for Air Serbia with their rather simple business service on short-haul routes.
DeleteIma u Zagrebu jedan "analiticar" svetskog profila. Savete deli svima - od Lufthanse do Montenegra :D
ReplyDeleteSubjekt je jedan obicni kompleksac...puca od sujete i mrznje. I mnogo laze
DeleteNesto se u poslednje vreme slabo cuje !?! mada je puno puta bio i u pravu
DeleteČovek odlučio da pokrene svoj blog za baljezganje, mada sve mu je kopirano i prevedeno na "naš" i onda tamo glumi da ne zna ćirilicu... Sve u svemu cirkus i 0 profesionalnosti
DeletePa nemojte tako o mom prijatelju. Covjek je vrhunski strucnjak i profesionalac. Za mazoretkinje. Sto se zrakoplovstva tice, kakav nacionalni prijevoznik, takav i savjetnik i analiticar 😃
DeleteI would like Air Serbia to own at least few planes. That should be easier for them than negotiating new leases every then and now.
ReplyDeleteThey can rent several planes from Bulgaria Air! They currently have quite a growing ACMI business.
ReplyDeleteThe Embraers are flying for TAP and the current A320s were serving Condor. The remaining planes serve their network.
DeleteThey need 5 planes to serve Sofia. The rest is ACMI.
DeleteWhy doesn't Air Serbia dry lease some extra Aircraft? Long term it will be cheaper then Dry-leasing. Or maybe Air Serbia isn't in as good shape financially as it claims to be in?
ReplyDeleteYet again the same type of dumb comment with the same goal. Obviously Air Serbia is in a better shape financially than you mentally.
DeleteNe moze dry lease jer nema ko da leti na tome, pozz
DeleteIt's cheaper in the long run for them to dry lease. I think the current and bigger problem with dry leasing is having enough crew to operate the aircraft. It wouldn't surprise me that Jat Tehnika isn't the only reason why they've taken on so many wet leases this winter. However, they seem to be in full swing with recruitment recently, 2 recruitment events the past 2 months and I am sure more will follow before the summer season kicks in. For pilots, a recruitment call ended yesterday for all aircraft types, for cabin crew the day before yesterday (09.01). Hopefully they adequately plan this upcoming summer and not try to push crew to their limits.
DeleteYU-ASA (ex EI-FAW - 5th ATR76) is ready for delivery and will join the fleet soon. It was fully painted in the JU livery last month. 2 more ATR's will follow soon for a total of 8 the upcoming summer. For the rest, we will have to wait and see.
Can someone with exact and correct information tell me how much they pay their cabin crew? Like the basic salary and hours they fly?
DeleteI guess you mean three extra, as they will have 5 ATR72-600 in the fleet once ASA arrives
DeleteI am sure that they will also use stored ATR72 and ATR75 as a backup for the upcoming summer season if they can be brought into satisfactotry operating conditions In JAT Tehnika.
DeleteBig "If"
DeleteYU-ASA is arriving in early afternoon.
DeleteHow many such experts even exist in Serbia, it's weird that such job post is not posted in English.
ReplyDeleteZa tako bitne pozicije konkurs se raspisuje radi reda,da se ispoštuje zakon. ACMI expert je verovatno već dogovoren.
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