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The airport in Romana’s second-largest city of Cluj-Napoca has held discussions with Air Serbia over the potential introduction of flights. The airport’s General Manager, David Ciceo, said, “We are in discussion with several airlines and partner airports, however, these take some time to finalise. We are talking with Air Serbia, Air France, British Airways and Flydubai. In the coming period, we hope to launch new destinations from Cluj”. Cluj-Napoca is located in northwestern Romania. Cluj Airport is a Wizz Air base and also boasts flights by several legacy carriers including LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, TAROM, Turkish Airlines and, starting next March, Swiss.
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DeleteYou know, would be funny if Cluj got more airlines in than Fraport here
ReplyDeleteIt is a small airport, but all my flights from there were packed. Romania is 19m people country and quite huge. I get all the time shocked when on the map we enter Romania near Arad, I always think we are landing soon, but it is actually another hour to Bucharest. Good luck JU and please do something about that website, please! I love JU that is why I mention that website all the time!
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DeleteCLJ actually lost FlyDubai as it launched flights in 2021. Dont wanna sound bad, but Romanian airports are not doing very well. TSR will soon lose its FRA flights in spring. CLJ has been stagnating being the second busiest in the country. Suceava also lost many Wizzair routes. OMR was a disaster. Although CLJ enjoys LH, TK and LO it can still do way much better being a wealthier region of Romania. FR also cut domestic CLJ-OTP routes but it will be interesting to see how LX perform. Like many airports in the region, Star Alliance is heavily dominating. SkyTeam and OneWorld are almost invisible in Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Slovenia. Fraport is in control of most airports also German. LH Group has a very strong grip when it comes to non-LCC. Aegean are also Star Alliance similar to TK. And not to mention the LH Group siblings: Eurowings, Discover and soon City Airlines and LX, Edelweiss and so on. Then the EU Commission "complains" about dominance when we clearly see that Europe today is dominated by 5 airlines. Even ITA will soon become Star Alliance with FCO gobbled. OU is now more connected to MUC and FRA more than ever and so is LJU with LH, LX, SN and 100% Fraport ownership. Just saying.....
ReplyDeleteWell 5 big airlines can't dominate Europe, then you can pick any number. Dominance (in economics) is defined by monopoly/duopoly. 5 big players competing + dozen of smaller ones don't constitute dominance. Just compare it to the US Big 3 or Middle East Big 3 etc...
DeleteIts all relative. Big 5 in Europe can dominate 90% of market, and the rest 10% can be spilt amount more then dozon other airlines.
DeleteWould be nice to see JU expansion in Romania. Especially interested to see how this route would perform considering how many people here have been advocating for it for years. Almost like a litmus test to see how viable expansion is to secondary airports in the region with very little O&D would be
ReplyDeleteThere are already many proofs how perform regional airports with very little O&D passengers. from Belgrade... TIA, SOF, BUD, ZAG etc.
DeleteNowhere near the same category as CLJ
DeleteYou think there is no O&D from ZAG? Believe it or not there is some O&D from the other airports you mentioned.
DeleteBut I am mainly talking about Cluj as a secondary regional airport, not primary.
I did not say there is no O&D traffic between these airports, but that it is very little, especially TIA.
DeleteMr. Alen is going to be (un)happy
ReplyDeleteWhich Alen? Analitičar or his bot friend?
DeleteIs there a difference?
DeleteHe is not worth mentioning.
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DeleteCalling that person a Mr. is an overstatement :)
DeleteExactly as I predicted! No Wroclaw but Cluj.
ReplyDeleteWell done.
And what exactly makes you say that? This is just a statement by the airport's CEO that they are talking
DeleteI really do not think they would be talking to CLJ if they have no intention to start flying there.
DeleteThey held talks with Portoroz too. Does not mean they will start flights. But even if they start Cluj, why does that disqulify flights to Wroclaw?
DeleteIt is obvious that Cluj does not have runway limitations which Portoroz has so therefore it is not recommendable comparing these two.
DeleteCLJ is a much better solution than WRO as it is double closer to BEG and rotation would be much quicker giving JU a possibility of additional regional rotation to be performed.
Logically, fuel costs are also lower flying from BEG to CLJ than to WRO.
Last but not least - the competition is smaller in CLJ than in WRO. Cluj has only wide network of Wizz air flights (Ryanair almost non existing with 5 destinations only) with domestic national airline being quite weak together with its network connections through OTP while WRO has wide network of FR and W6 flights + strong national carrier with plenty of connecting posibilities through WAW.
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DeleteYes to everything, but WRO is much wealthier area than Cluj. Yueld will be better.
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