NEWS FLASH
Air Serbia has concluded a short-term wet-lease of a Wamos Air Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The jet will operate on the airline's behalf between Belgrade and New York on April 13 and April 15. It comes as Air Serbia's own A330-200 (registered YU-ARB) experienced a technical issue while on the ground in New York several days ago. Air Serbia's other A330-200 (registered YU-ARC) is undergoing scheduled maintenance in Istanbul and is expected to rejoin the fleet this month. Air Serbia has, on previous occasions, also contracted Wamos Air's wide-body jets, most recently in November of last year. The Spanish carrier is currently wet-leasing its A330s to a number of airlines including Air New Zealand, Aer Lingus, Condor and Saudi Arabian Airlines.
That 'scheduled maintenance' in Istanbul is taking forever.
ReplyDeleteD check takes a month and a half. Plane arrived in Istanbul on 27 February. It is taking as planned and returns as scheduled.
DeleteAnd who's fault is it that JU chose to lease an A330 that soon after was due for an expensive and time consuming D-check?
DeleteAnd the exact same thing had happened with YU-ARA.
The upcoming D-check probably meant favourable lease rates. Besides, they scheduled the maintenance during the appropriate time of year
DeleteDemonstrably it wasn't the "right time" since yet another expensive wet lease was needed.
DeleteDemonstrably they could not have foreseen that ground handling crew damaging the airplane. They previously had 5 years of YU-ARA with minimal unexpected downtime. They took a reasonable risk and it turned out now that they will need a wet lease for a week at most. Unfortunate, but not their fault. Be reasonable.
DeleteIt's not gonna be expensive, at least not in terms of money since it must be covered by insurance/JFK handling company.
DeleteD-Check on any widebody is 40-60 days easily. Find something big and it goes up. And then that aircraft was operated in South Africa (notorious for bad maintenance) and parked in desert for few years. Not surprised if check was already extended from original date.
DeleteBut it isn't. Maintenance on it started 1 March and it comes back next week.
DeleteTurns out that leasing YU-ARC before D check was very risky decision.
ReplyDeleteIn situations like this, they have to sign very costly wet lease for two days..
So?
DeleteNo they won't, JFK handling will cover the price as it was their fault.
DeleteAnd AS operating only one a330 is their fault too? They will pay for damage and maybe canceled JFK to Beg. And thats all.
Delete> It comes as Air Serbia's own A330-200 (registered YU-ARB) experienced a technical issue while on the ground in New York several days ago
ReplyDeleteYikes!
Engine was hit by baggage loaders at JFK.
DeleteThat sounds almost funny. Crazy.
DeleteI work at jfk as a engineer saw it happen ground handling company was Dnata
DeleteIs this the plane that should arrive in June or July?
ReplyDeleteNo, read the article
DeleteNo. That one will be a dry lease where the A332 will be painted in JU's colors. This here is a wet lease arrangement
DeleteWhy are they so obsessed with A332 instead of the A333?
DeleteIf I had a crystal ball, it would show Air Serbia wet leasing A330-300 during summer of 2025 for additional capacity to yet unannounced destination in North America.
DeleteIf there are seven flights weekly to New York, three to Chicago, one to China and planned more, with possible routes to Toronto and Havana, JU needs at least four A330s on a dry lease at the end of this year, having in mind that Moscow could be regularly done with A330 at least three times weekly in the winter season.
DeleteEC-NHM is on the way to BEG, is an aircraft with only economy seats: 375!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy would they do this to their business class passengers? I will not fly Air Serbia in the future.
DeleteI doubt you did in the present either.
DeleteHas it maybe dawned on you that it was the only A330 available on the market that could be wet leased within 24 hours and arrive in BEG in time? Most airlines wouldn't have even bothered that much and would have rerouted all passengers.
DeleteAnother airline would have more planes and would just switch. This is the risk of booking with a smaller airline with fewer planes. I am a frequent flyer and this stuff only happens when I fly Air Serbia.
DeleteI'm really interested to know how many times Air Serbia switched your A330 for another?
DeleteLiterally 0.
DeleteI was booked on the 15th in business class BEG-JFK. I just randomly checked my reservation today and the flight just says it's cancelled. I received no update from Air Serbia yet.
DeleteCould not agree more, not too many aircraft and no partner airlines. Since back in December Air Serbia has been having maintenance and schedule issues with both aircraft. I flew them in December, and YU-ARC had an issue, I flew a day later than suppose to. Pushing everyone back a date to fly with. Other airlines rebook you on a partner airline and compensate you. The YU-ARC cabin and seat configuration was very uncomfortable. Air Serbia inflight entertainment is very disappointing on both aircraft. Good luck to everyone flying out of JFK this summer, when they intend to do 7 days a week with one just aircraft and the second goes elsewhere. I'm sticking to my star alliance team for the summer.
DeleteI've flown on this plane via a different airline, and it is definitely a downgrade from AS's cabin.
DeleteDoes this aircraft have business class seats?
ReplyDeleteNo. Business clasd passengers have been rerouted onto other airlines.
DeleteWhich ones?
DeleteTK.
DeleteNice upgrade for J pax then.
DeleteThe TK thing isn't true. I had J class booked for the 15th - they just marked the flight as cancelled and offered to compensate me, or move me to the next available flight, which is the 20th. Not really an upgrade if you ask me
DeleteDo you know which airlines?
ReplyDeleteI miss Rodney's always positive comments. This negativity is so boring.
ReplyDeleteIt didn’t take long…and it’s just the beginning…
ReplyDeleteWho took the maintenance
ReplyDeleteTK in ISL.
DeleteVučić and Air Serbia must be having a good time playing around with Middle Eastern money
ReplyDeleteLOL what Middle Eastern money?
DeletePeople on here have no basic clue how an airline operates. I love reading how negative most people are and how much hurts them successful strategy of JU. If you are to read what people post on here you would think almost everyone on here flys daily and majority of you in a class but then they hate Vucic and their gouvermant bcs they made this airline going. Just comical what people come up with from a simple mechanical issue out of their control and something we see daily at those big airports. Congrats to JU management for responding extremely quick and finding an option for their passengers .
DeleteI saw JU-ARB landing at BEG yesterday
ReplyDeleteNice.
DeleteNow scheduled to IST as JU4040 today after arriving from TJN. Repairs?
DeleteLanded yesterday 19.50h at Serbia capital.
ReplyDeleteI am always shocked how much negativity and hate is present in some of the people here! Yes, they took a risk, they were wrong, they will pay, so what?! Who ever said that they are perfect airline, that they do all the best... Who does, after all?!
ReplyDeleteThink positive and your life will be much better! Kakve su ti misli, takva ti je duša!
#balkanmentality
DeleteMislimo mi svi pozitvno. Ne brini. ali mislimo i na posade aviona, koji rade kao dragstori. Par dana slobodnih, a rade 25-26 dana mesecno. Da li si razmisljao o tome? No hard feelings.
ReplyDeleteJa ne znam kako se računa radno vreme posade, ali nije tačno da dnevno lete preko 8h, niti da rade 25-26 dan cele godine. I platom su stimulisanje da rade vipe jer je posao u određenoj meri sezonski. Da li konobari u kafiću rade vipe leti, rade, jer više i zarade. A ja mislim da konobar fizički radi mnogo više od kanonskog osoblja, bez namere da poredimo dve profesije u kvalitativnom smislu.
DeleteDobro. Radno vreme posade ide i do 12 h. I vise. Ne ide tu samo letenje Pripreme za let itd.. I da. 25/26 dana mesecno. Platu nemoj da spominjes. Rade za bedne novce. Posebno ubijaju ove mlade, sto su dosli u firmu, koji sada su na simulatorima, ( upravo su na simulatorrima sada u EU) za sve vrste aviona. Neki su odbili, kad su procitali ugovor, kako ih uslovljavaju. Znam sta pisem. Raspitaj se, pa mozemo dalje da diskutujemo. Poz.
ReplyDeleteA ti mladi i siroti robovi koje Airserbia zlostavlja i iskorišćava, tera da rade za sitne novce 12 i više sati 25-26 dana u nedelji, valjda nemaju kako da se izvuku. Strašno!
DeleteManite me više tih priča, svako bira što si kako će da radi, danas bar ima posla
I saw this Wamos Air A330 on the BEG airport last week
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