Slovenia eyes new flag carrier in 2024 with seven-year investment


The Slovenian Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Matjaž Han, has said he fully supports the creation of the country’s new flag carrier after an expert commission presented its findings on the economic impacts of Adria Airways’ 2019 bankruptcy. The report concluded that Slovenia has lost hundreds of millions of euros due to its lack of air connectivity. Mr Han said the report’s findings will now be presented to the Prime Minister Robert Golob after which a final decision on the matter will be made. The findings are also expected to be presented to the public this week. All signs point towards the state being in favour of a new airline, with Mr Han saying the process will take around a year to finalise and will also require approval from the European Union.

Commenting on the matter, Minister Han told the daily “Delo”, "Air connectivity is a vital component for Slovenia's development. That's why we organised a tender to subsidise new routes, the results of which disappointed me”. Luxair and Air Montenegro were the only two carriers to apply for the state subsidies. Mr Han added, "I absolutely support it [new flag carrier]. The state will co-finance the project for seven years. However, we should not only look at it from an airline perspective but also consider the multiple advantages that air connectivity would bring".

Mr Han conceded there will be headwinds in gaining the necessary approvals from the European Union to fund a new national airline but remains confident the project would be endorsed. “Slovenia will have to bite into this sour apple and decide as soon as possible. It will take around a year until we get a new airline. Until then, it is necessary to engage much more in bilateral talks with carriers and attract them to start flying to Slovenia. This is also Fraport's job. However, this can either make things more complicated or simpler since Fraport is owned by Lufthansa. Therefore, one could interpret this in different ways”. Slovenia’s previous government administration planned to set up a new flag carrier using seventy million euros in funds from the European Union’s coronavirus Recovery and Resilience Plan, however, Brussels struck down the project.



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  1. Anonymous09:03

    Happy to hear this. Slovenia needs a national airline!

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    1. Anonymous10:39

      What for?

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    2. Anonymous11:19

      Hence the word; Nationalism

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    3. Anonymous07:14

      Anon 1039, Let's turn the question around: what for does Slovenia not need a national airline?

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  2. Anonymous09:03

    Fully support this idea.

    Slovenia deserve to have its own airline and not Slovenian citizens to full airports in neighbouring countries.

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  3. I can't belive I'm saying this, but it's actually all making sense - the 1.11.2024 date is resonable, they 7 years of being in red is actually fairly reasonable and most importantly "This is also Fraport's job. However, this can either make things more complicated or simpler since Fraport is owned by Lufthansa. Therefore, one could interpret this in different ways" is a HUGE statement, that pretty much confirms that LJU is doing absolutely nothing to attract new carriers

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    1. Anonymous09:06

      Agree! And shows that they are very much aware of the situation.

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    2. Anonymous10:09

      This means that not only Star Alliance is considerd but also Oneworld and SkyTeam

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    3. @anon09:06 they got aware of this only recently! anon@10:09 i dont think so.

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  4. Anonymous09:04

    Fingers crossed the EU doesn't block it.

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    1. Anonymous09:49

      Yet they don't block billions invested into ITA Airways.

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    2. Anonymous10:15

      Or Croatia Airlines.

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    3. Anonymous11:27

      @9:49 I bet it would be a different story if Lufthansa wasn't the one set to acquire it

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  5. Anonymous09:05

    Any idea what they will call the airline?

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    1. Anonymous09:07

      Most likely Air Slovenia

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    2. My wish would be something in the line of Slovenia, but let's not call it Air, let's call it Wings etc.

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    3. Anonymous09:10

      Too bad that they sold the Adria name

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    4. Anonymous09:10

      Too bad that they sold the Adria name

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    5. Anonymous09:10

      Air Slovenia could be a possible name

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    6. Anonymous09:28

      Carinthia Air

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    7. Anonymous09:47

      I think Air Slovenia is too similar to Air Serbia, might create confusion among foreign travelers (yes, many people mix Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Siberia etc.)

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    8. Anonymous09:51

      In theory they can buy the Adria brand name back from that UAE owner. But I doubt the EU would be too keen for the same name to be resurrected. The EU ordered the Italian to change Alitalia's name.

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    9. Anonymous10:27

      SloWings

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    10. I like the idea of "wings"! Carinthia Air sounds too austrian.

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    11. In my opinion, wings sounds too LCC and kind of cheap. Why not SLOAVIA? 😃

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    12. Anonymous11:10

      I agree with Pozdrav. Wings sounds very LCC. Maybe Air Adria or Slovenia Airways

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    13. Sloavia is nice! I agree!

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    14. Sloavia brings back exyu days memories, doesn't it? A bit of socialist name imo :D

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    15. Anonymous11:33

      Wings of Slovenia or Slovenian Airways sound better

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    16. @XYZ
      In ex-yu days, Adria was successfull, innovative, efficient and modern airline. Croatia had 20 domestic aircraft based on its coast in the summer, Adria ones included, and ZAG was better connected to the World with direct and nonstop services than today. Generally, majority of people in that kind of socialism, lived better than today, enjoying benefits of ex-yu hybrid system which was combining the best from the East and the best from the West. And if you think I will be ashamed for being nostalgic for all of the mentioned, you are very much wrong.

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    17. Btw, does Transavia sounds socialist too?

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    18. Anonymous14:48

      +1

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    19. Anonymous15:41

      QUICK AIRLINES. WE MAKE YOU COME QUICK

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    20. Anonymous15:56

      Lol

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    21. Anonymous17:00

      Air Tina. Golob has the final word.

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    22. Boris17:29

      Triglav Airways

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    23. Anonymous19:19

      Janezhi Inter National Airlines

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    24. Anonymous15:34

      Did that "style" of socialism have 200% inflation in the 80s?

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  6. Anonymous09:07

    Finally!

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  7. Anonymous09:09

    Wonder what fleet they will have

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    1. Let's hope for E-jets and not CRJs, my guess is that study will go through that

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    2. Anonymous09:14

      Depends on the routes I would say. Maybe a mix of Airbus 220 and ATR or Embraer

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    3. no money for a220! Lets hope for EMB!

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    4. You should bring Jasmin for CEO. Both huge success and new A220 guaranteed! LOL! 😃

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  8. Anonymous09:11

    Still, better not than in 10 years :)

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  9. Anonymous09:14

    its Robert GolOb not GolUb.

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  10. Anonymous09:15

    It's still not decided, first PM has to approve it and then also European Union. So still far way from actual airline, but at least they start to working on this matter.

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    1. Golob has no other option than to say yes to it, it's just a formality. With EU it's going to be longer for sure, but by then the company will be established and plans will be revealed

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    2. Anonymous09:48

      Considering they already know the timeline of when the new airline will be created, for how long they will finance it etc it does seem to be a formality and that a decision has already been made made behind closed doors.

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  11. For anyone looking to spend 15 min listening to Han and Bratušek about the carrier yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ljdkowT7Q

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  12. Anonymous09:27

    In times of regrouping, we create new niche small market local carrier and we think it will be success.

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  13. Anonymous09:29

    average taxpayer will not benefit from this airline.

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    1. Anonymous09:34

      Average taxpayer benefits from the taxes collected from business and turism that the national carrier brings to the country, but you are not prepared to talk about that

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    2. wow, thats a good one anon:09:34!

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    3. Anonymous11:17

      It's an overestimated income from business and tourism just to push the narrative.

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    4. Even if its overestimated, but do you really think its 10 fold overestimated? For sure not. So even it the losses are "only" 50-60 mio per year, its still better to "cover" 10-20mio loss of the carrier.

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    5. Anonymous22:18

      Oh god, not again with the story of the taxpayer... Anon 9:29 Let's put it in a simpler manner, since the public economics is not your strongpoint: these 4 years have been a disaster from the connectivity point of view and it seems to me, from the discussions I've been reading for all the time, that there is a demand.
      This connectivity has a cost - as do hospitals, roads, railways, exc...
      U may not like it, but there's not such a thing as individual cost benefit analysis there. You may pay taxes for something hasn't value for you, in the same way we pay for something we are not interested in.
      For how much sounds strange to you, we are all taxpayers somewhere.

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  14. Anonymous09:29

    I don’t know why they don’t look to replicate Air Baltic model for Slovenia and Croatia, both could compliment each other and gain economies of scale, as standalone you fear for them. Originally I was just get Wizz etc.. but after reading a bit about them recently and the article in the Times at the weekend, not sure they are a sustainable long term partner, so some sort of national airline maybe the way forward but working with Croatia as both would win.

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    1. Working with Croatia in aviation is impossible, because :
      1. Croatia has absolutely ZERO strategy for its economy, aviation sector included
      2. Croatian aviation is 100% under influence of politics, and persons on the highest positions are incompetent, ignorant and corrupt
      3. Both government of Croatia and "management team" of Croatia Airlines are totally uninterested in development of aviation in Croatia itself and surroundings, because they are only looking how to fill their own pockets
      4. Croatia Airlines must remain LH feeder and it's not allowed to become stronger because its former CEO handed over entire market to Lufthansa, in exchange for the position in Board of Directors of Star Alliance
      5. Judiciary in Croatia is the slowest in Europe and under political influence on the highest levels, and it cannot be expected that situation described could be changed in near future

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  15. Anonymous09:46

    After the failed tender to subsidize new routes by foreign airlines, it was the only solution left.

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  16. Anonymous09:46

    This is going to be very costly with an uncertain return on investment.

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    1. Anonymous09:50

      +1

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    2. Anonymous09:58

      -1

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    3. you know whats is really costly? Not having one and loosing millions of euros due to lack of air connectivity.

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    4. Anonymous11:21

      Lack of connectivity? I don't think so, except for Skopje.
      Which new routes will they provide?
      Can we expect competitive prices? No
      Can we dream of an excellent customer service?
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      Will it be economically viable? No way.
      Why no one is doing it already if Ljubljana has such good perspectives?

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    5. Lack of connectivity? So, Ljubljana has no problem with airconnectivity? My lord, you have absolutely NO CLUE about anything. Just check some regular reports of ACI, IATA or EUROCONTROL. Why airconnectivity of LJU dropped for 57% if you compare june 2022 vs june 2019? And june 2023 wont be ANY better than june 2022. Get real.

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  17. Anonymous09:49

    Well, let's hope it will be more successful than Adria.

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  18. Anonymous09:50

    If they plan to co-finance it, it means that they plan to have a private investor as well.

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    1. Anonymous09:52

      In my opinion they probably expect a private Slovenian airline to be involved in the project.

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    2. Anonymous10:14

      Han said yesterday that if going with a joint venture would be easier to convince EU

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  19. Anonymous09:52

    Going to be very difficult now to find planes, pilots, get into IATA, find slots....

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    1. Anonymous09:56

      It will be an uphill battle as they say but I'm hoping they succeed.

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    2. Anonymous10:48

      Air Montenegro is still not in IATA.

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    3. Anonymous12:15

      It will be extremely easy to find pilots - a lot of Slovenians would gladly work for peanuts, as long as they can be based at home.

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    4. Anonymous16:50

      Not so sure about that. I for one will definitely look at T&Cs before deciding to work for a new airline with an uncertain future. And also the type of aircraft it will operate (with an exotic type rating you are pretty much unemployable should something go wrong, again).

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  20. Anonymous09:53

    Wonder what the network will look like.

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    1. VIE, MUC, FRA, CDG, MAD, BCN, LONDON (probably not LHR because of slot restrictions), CPH, AMS (if slots available), ARN, BER, FCO (?), ATH (if no A3), PRG, SAW (?), OTP, SOF, SKP.

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    2. Anonymous11:00

      Yeah i also think that they will lanuch SKP and directly compete with Wizz. The route which was ignored for 4 years will now be operated by two carriers, it is common these days.

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  21. Anonymous09:53

    Adria struggled serving the Slovenian market and had to operate from other markets too. I don't see a new national airline being any more successful.

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    1. Anonymous09:56

      It will most likely be a much leaner and smaller carrier than Adria with the right aircraft and network.

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    2. Anonymous09:57

      Yes, it will be a model of good business, much like most of Slovenian government's projects are!

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    3. You mean Petrol? Krka?

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    4. Anonymous11:12

      Bring Aegean on board and let them show how you do things right

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  22. Anonymous09:56

    Bravo Slovenia, another few hundred million down the drain. Meanwhile, the country is falling apart. Well done. Good thing young people are leaving.

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    1. Anonymous12:12

      Right 😂😂😂

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    2. Anonymous13:54

      Young people leaving slovenia? And what falling apart of a country you are talking about?
      Life here is too nice and we dont have any actual big issues as a country so have to complain on something else eh?

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    3. Except our health care system everything else is very decent

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  23. Anonymous09:57

    Looks like this is really happening.

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  24. Anonymous09:57

    How big will that 7 year investment be?

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    1. Anonymous09:59

      100-200 mio was said a few weeks ago

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    2. Anonymous10:02

      That's a lot of money. Hope it works out.

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    3. Anonymous10:02

      Well it is less than what the country has lost by not having a national airline. That's the whole point.

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    4. JU520 BEGLAX10:16

      This is absolute BS. There is no way they could come up seriously with those numbers. There were Covid restrictions, so u can not compare anything in a serious way. And 2019 was the last year of JP.
      The airline will not be launched, these are just the regular political non sense fog petards, to keep the public busy with some BS.

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    5. If something is BS here, its your statemtn JU520BEGLAX. Ministers are very serious about it.

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    6. Anonymous11:23

      wow thats a lot @9.59

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    7. slo avio11:46

      ok, lets do the maths here. You need 200 mio in 7 years for what? To connect MAD, BCN or NAP, FCO, VLC?

      As Zurich, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich, Belgrade, Istanbul, Warsaw, Dubai, Helsinki hubs are well connected. In addition you have or soon will have flights to Nis, Podogrica, Tivat, Tel Aviv, Pristina, Skopje, Athens, Monastir.
      Through the hubs you have are linked to hundreds of cities worldwide. We are just planning a Balkans tour this fall. My cousin is flying LJU-SKP and TIA-LJU. It takes him via BEG less than 5 hours for 200 EUR return ticket and we are absolutely happy.

      SLO government should keep working with an incentive program and additionally subsidize buses from LJU to VCE and ZAG each twice a day to have good connections for touris arriving from North America or EK in VCE, IB ex MAD or than to ZAG where you have access to Ryanairs and other airlines network.
      The problem of LJU airport is the location. It is not well located, at least not for people south of Ljubljana. Those people already now use ZAG, TRS, VCE, VRN, Treviso or Bergamo for their holidays. Even my cousin and her and family in LJU, use Italy airports for their trips to Spain. And my friends son in LJU, flies from LIM each year via VCE to visit his parents in LJU.

      People in the Gorenjska region now even have access to ALC and PMI from KLU on Ryan or can use OS ex KLU. There are plenty of options.

      Not to forget the regular charters ex LJU. I see Air Malta coming regularly to LJU and there are flights to Hurghada weekly 2-3 times, Spain destinations, in Summer greek destinations.

      Slovenia would rather invest the cash into a new railway station (the existing is a joke) and invest into higher speed rail infrastructure, like Serbia has done and is still doing.
      From LJU you need to be in 1 hour or even less than one hour in Zagreb, Villach, Maribor, Trieste, Koper and in 2 hours in Venice.

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    8. JU520 BEGLAX11:47

      apologizes to slo avio: it should have read @slo avio. Above comment is JU520 comment to slo avio

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    9. Anonymous12:15

      Wow subsidizing buses to other airports. I guess we should also subsidize ambulance to other cities. Great idea!

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    10. 11:46 comment from whoever was is beyond stupid - next up just subsidize bikes so people can ride from the balkans to vienna?

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    11. Anonymous12:55

      Absolutely nothing wrong with subsidising buses, ev even with EK AC UA DL AA IB flight numbers. In Europa where proper rail infrastructure exists, this is very common. For example LUGZRH or within Germany etc
      I see the wish lists are always long and expectations high, the question is rather setting priorities or who is even paying this wishes? Best to answer this is selfreflexion? How much do I pay taxes per year to the government to enable them my big wishes?
      Investments into infrastructure btw are the most sustainable, they last up for centuries. Look at SLO rail unfrastructure: It was built by Danubemonarchy. Since than no fundamental investments were done, to significantly improve railways network/time gain in SLO
      Next is Divaća-Koper, which is a first step but not enough

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    12. 11:46 wasnt me.

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  25. Anonymous10:04

    I just hope they put professionals in charge of the airline.

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    1. There's talk of Solinair or Amelia being private partners - both of them would be great

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    2. Jasmineeeeeee!!! Dje si? Jes'cuo, traze te!!!! Hahahahahahahaha

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  26. I see a lot of people on here complaining about the carrier not being profitable.
    The thing is, they are open in communicating about that, and it's totally fine - if the carrier will bring business and tourism to the country (which Adria did well in the past).
    So yes airline by itself will probably lose money, but it will make X amount of money back, bringing tourism and business to the country.
    If anyone disagrees with this I'm quite happy to debate, as i really don't see how this logic isn't soundproof from the overall picture and not just the carrier itself

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    1. Boris20:12

      Slovenia would be better off with Slovenian airline in the long term.
      The problem is in the short term that taxes are paid on the individual businesses income. So all business will have to finance Airline for some time.
      Its like personal taxes that are paid for the schools system by the individuals that don’t have children but live in the same tax jurisdiction.

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  27. Anonymous10:13

    Please don't tie it up to Lufthansa again.

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    1. Anonymous10:24

      It would be great not to be tied up to LH but they are surrounded with German carrier...
      OS belongs to LH
      OU controlled by LH
      ITA will be controlled by LH
      Fraport has close ties with LH.

      No choice actually here. Slovenia is in the middle of LH interest zone.

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  28. Anonymous10:44

    "The report concluded that Slovenia has lost hundreds of millions of euros due to its lack of air connectivity"... and now plans to lose hundreds of millions of euros with next flag airline's bankruptcy. Great plan. Maybe the solution is just to start developing air connectivity?

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  29. Anonymous10:44

    I am sorry, but Lufthansa owns approx 8.4% of Fraport. Nonsense to claim "Lufthansa owns Fraport" and this makes it a problem to attract other airlines.

    Source: https://www.fraport.com/en/investors/the-fraport-share.html

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    1. Enough to care about LH interest. More than any other carrier is involved into Fraport. Letting Fraport to operate the airport is a bigger mistake than selling JP.

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  30. Anonymous11:47

    Fraport are allowing themselves to publicly claim they belong to Lufthansa because they own 100% of LJU airport and this also shows how the new carrier will (again) be possibly linked to Deutschland and Nordrhein-Westfalen. Just like they will possibly gooble up ITA Airways, they will largely dominate the Slovenian aviation. In a few years, you will have maximum 5-7 major airlines in Europe. The rest will be thrumbs or insignificant carriers especially regional ones such as Baboo, FlyBe, České aerolinie, etc, etc.
    The skies will be dominated by LH Group, Ryanair, Wizzair, IAG and AF/KL and maybe TK. That's it.
    Deutschland will most likely seek other markets to gobble up or maybe Fraport even extending its presence in Europe.
    As for the new Slovene carrier, we might expect it to be a MUC and FRA feeder as well.

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  31. Anonymous11:56

    Looks like a new Slovenian carrier may be ready just in time for the demise of Croatia Airlines if current management keeps doing business like it has for the last few years - cutting routes, making losses. When CA didn't seize the opportunity presented to it by Adria fading away, maybe the opposite can happen. Personally, I would be sad to see CA going under, they had so much opportunities, especially given the fact that Croatia is visited by more and more tourists every year, but...

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    1. Anonymous13:40

      So we shall have the totally opposite situation people from Croatia to fly from LJU.

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  32. Anonymous13:54

    Clearly demonstrates that the people in power have no idea, wouldnt if have been easier to keep Adria as a going concern, or if it had to go bust, kept all the infrastructure rather than sell it for peanuts and now pay more to get the same stuff. Unfortunatley the citizens of Slovenia are being taken for a ride by politicians who dont look after the interests of them rather themselves or their puppet masters.

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    1. Anonymous22:04

      I don't know if you recall that we recently had a pandemic that brought all airlines to their knees. Paying for Adria through Covid would have cost a fortune while bringing no or next to no benefit for a looong period of time.

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  33. notLufthansa15:28

    Unfortunately, Slovenia is not immune to making some very bad decisions in the name of "capitalism", i.e. sell out of whole industrial branches. Aviation was just the last in line (Adria, airports, Adria Tehnika....). There is not a trace of state-wide strategy what Slovenia should look like in near future. Just sell out, which is in some circles considered as a good thing, and there was this neo-liberal mantra, that state is bad owner. All strategic assets are under watchful eye of the state, even though direct ownership (Lufthansa, Lufthansa Tehchnik, Turkish, BA...).
    There was a hand written slogan on doors at the main entrance of where Adria used to be stationed - loosely translated - You didn't know what you had and what you lost.
    There are so many open questions - starting with HQ (sold out), fleet, staff...
    Adria was once whole package - flight school, airliner, supporter of aviation. All of that is gone. To bring the new airline up to what Adria used to be, will cost a lot of money, time and effort. I'm all in for new airliner, but I'm afraid that the overall cost will be so great, that they will drop the idea (I have yet to read the study by dr. Damjan, if it becomes public). Why do we have to repeat the same mistake over and over again - destroying something in god knows what and whose name, just to re-build everything from the scratch.

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    1. JU520 BEGLAX15:41

      Good point. Look at Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and compare it with non EU member Serbia

      EU politicians serve today multi nationals and large EU members have different rights than small members. If LH group takes over TP and AZ, than u basically have majority of EU Europe under control of 3 large airline groups plus Easy, Ryan and Wizz. The rest is peanuts. The US is no difference: DL AA/AS UA, Jetblue and Southwest

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  34. Anonymous19:24

    They should put a Zlatorog logo on their aircraft tail like TAAG Angola Airlines did .
    You should look that up - it really looks cool !

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    1. Anonymous20:14

      The only problem...Laško was sold a few years ago :D

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    2. Anonymous21:34

      Probably sold to Germans as everything in Slowenland ..

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    3. It was sold to Dutch (Heineken), not to Germans, but now back to topic: my sugestion for name Bankruptcyin4years airlines ;)

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    4. Anonymous18:57

      Dutch sounds like Deutsch and that was German enough for the Slovenian sellouts .

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  35. Anonymous09:32

    its really interesting what perspectives comes out in different discussions regarding owing a national carrier. First of all I would place it on MBX as home base and not LJU cause of the ownership and costs. I would not start with 7-10 airplanes but step by step. It is very important not to handle airplane traffic as luxus but put it at the same priority level es international train and bus connections! it belongs to a public servis - is what a state offers on services/connections for her inhabitants and economy... If LH is owing Fraport and Fraport is owing LJU, then the opposite offer should be connected from MBX to get good connections to France/Iberian cities/Italy for intercontinental flights.... The goal is not profiit of the company, the goal is to make profit of the society!

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    1. Anonymous17:41

      Not wrong but an airline needs also a big home market .
      That can also be a big city .
      Slovenia unfortunately doesnt have both .

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    2. Anonymous21:00

      Well, Slovenia is not Nord Korea to have a fence around the country but needs to develop attractive products to support the economy (pharma industry, car industriy suppliers, energetic sector, maybe it come to financial services grow etc.. and tourism, bigger and better congresses....charters that are not listed in sourrounding airports)... Airline is not luxus! Its a part of public service that the goverment is supporting it for its inhabitants, companies and national interests! Its equal important to the second bus that is connecting Logar Valley with Celje/Ljubljana or Kranjska gora and Bovec. Public service! MBX would allow to run business with less restrictions coming from LH Group that did NOTHING FOR SLOVENIA AND SLOVENIANS. Nothing.

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