NEWS FLASH
Greek carrier Lumiwings which launched subsidised flights out of Tuzla to five cities in December will halve its operations from March 6, with its future services in doubt. The carrier will reduce frequencies on flights from Tuzla to Esbjerg, Halmstad, Maastricht and Saarbrucken from two to one weekly. Plans to launch a new Istanbul service on March 5 have been dropped. Furthermore, flights to Stockholm Skavsta will likely be discontinued with ticket sales suspended, although the airline is yet to confirm if it will do so. All Lumiwings flights out of Tuzla are operated by a Boeing 737-700 aircraft.
All because they had to start flights within days and chose villages to fly to as it was the only option. They should have planned it to start from summer season with better planning and better destinations. Demand is there. Let's also don't forget that they brought crew from Italy, paid accomodation for them and so on. It all costs.
ReplyDeleteAs there is demand, if the line to Stockholm, which was flown by WizzAir before them, was not reduced but canceled, that line had by far the lowest occupancy. What does that fact tell you ?
DeleteTZL-NYO flights are bookable through the airline website still. Anyways, since the day one, they have very bad marketing from the very beginning. Thanks to analitičar's stupid articles and well-trained Bosnian journalists who copy paste everything, no matter what the sources are. It's sad. It could simply work.
Delete^ no they are not. They display on the calendar but when you pick the dates it says no flights available.
DeleteThere is a very simple solution. Elementary. Just subsidize everyone everywhere with everything. Just throw tons of taxpayer money on that. And it will show staggering growth.
DeletePropast živa. Aerodrom bi se mogao uskoro zatvoriti. Samo šta sa uhljebima
DeleteVillages... You're so contemptuous... Billund is a village with 11,000 inhabitants. Esbjerg is a real city with 120,000 inhabitants. Halmstad serves both Gothenburg and Malmö. Maastricht is at the crossroads of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The question may well arise as to Saarbücken.
DeleteFYI, Stockholm was the lowest load factor in the network. Sometimes you need to know your field before writing nonsense.
They canceled the line that was flown by WizzAir before them, Stockholm. I think that says everything about them and their flights. What a circus from the company...
ReplyDeleteBosnia could have been a great opportunity for OU. As an EU carrier they would have had the rights to base planes in Bosnian airports and fly to European destinations. so sad they didnt take the opportunity. Outside of Sarajevo anything over 110 seats is just too big. Bosnia is perfect for the ATR72 or the E170.
DeleteThat seems somewhat logical, it's also interesting how this would have impacted their zag transfers. I remember years ago I would fly sjj to zag to Frankfurt to the usa. it was annoying, for some reason no or limited options via Lufthansa at the time.
Deletei understand that for some losing transfer traffic will be a worry, but whether they fly with OU via ZAG or with OU direct to Sarajevo, mostar, tuzla at the end they are still an OU passanger. and that is income for the airline.
Deletethen all the other things which can be beneficial like even hiring local pilots and crew for the flights since both nations speak the same language and everything else that comes with that
Almost 1 milion Bosnians live abroad. So sorry about your ATR teory, but its not right.
DeleteThe ATR has a range of 1500 km. It can reach many cities from Bosnia.
DeleteAnd the Dash-8 of OU have a range of 2000km.
So yh it can serve bosnia well for most of the diaspora
There are also a lot Herzegovinians, serbs and croats from BiH abroady not only bosnians
DeleteIt was expected.
ReplyDeleteI give them a month before they announce all flights are discontinued.
ReplyDeleteThey were the only ones who signed up for the last public call, so we'll just have to see 😎
DeleteJust going back how many destinations Wizz Air had...
DeleteTuzla has done its job. It could have only a few flights weekly and that's it. Tuzla is a labours town, was in Yugoslavia and now also. There is no capacity for one decent airport traffic
DeleteWhat a surprise!
ReplyDeleteMaybe they'll fly for Air Serbia now.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it begins. Went down by 8 weekly rotations, which is massive
ReplyDeleteTuzla "succeeded" to good operators, from everywhere. At least SJJ is profiting from it.
ReplyDeleteOr simply their machine will go to Slovenia. She is in AlpAvia livery. They just don't have planes.
ReplyDeleteEvery flight is actually subsidized (that's ok), let's assume that 50% LF is sufficient to establish a profit. It turns out they have about 20% LF. It's a shame, some people here mentioned that the planes are full. If you can't complete profitable flights even when you get paid...then what...
ReplyDeleteTZL is doomed. They just have to pay millions to maintain flights. On top of that, there is no demand. Everyone goes to BEG or SJJ….
ReplyDeletePeople from SJJ used to go to TZL. The good thing is that SJJ is going in the right direction.
DeleteIndeed Mostar is well from TZL at the moment. On the other hand, Lumiwings reports that it plans 10 destinations from TZL. It is possible to switch to Copenhagen, Munich, Vienna, Amsterdam.
DeleteYes now TZL is small Airport as OMO, BNX.
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DeleteTuzla has no future beside SJJ and BNX and also BEG nearby. Only gasto routes and diaspora who wants to fly for 20€.
DeleteI think they already disconnected the flight operations to Tuzla the aircraft flow to Halmstad but don’t fly back to TZL they cancelled it maybe they back to the Hub. And the fly to Saarbrücken is cancelled as well. I don’t understand why they don’t choose better destinations like VIE, BER or EIN the capacity would be better then to fly to valleys destination or at summer to open the base.
ReplyDeleteHonestly it’s very sad what happens with TZL they had a lot of potential to get the second biggest in BiH but yeah very sad all when I hear about Wizz they close the base it was sure that’s it.
Berlin, Vienna, Eindhoven are more expensive airports and tickets would be more expensive and there are some slots problems at Eindhoven. Let's face with reality, Tuzla is going down and will be closed. When canton wants to pay airport maintenance and employees even without flights, I don't anything against it.
DeleteTuzla airport is dead. Unfortunately, Tuzla can't make it surrounded by Sarajevo, Belgrade and Banja Luka.
DeleteYeah that is the true about that I hope not that closed would be very sad for the people maybe and of the day will be a light end of the tunnel
DeleteThey didn't operate a single flight in the last 4 days since this news is out and won't operate today's ones either as their aircraft is not in Tuzla. Is it over yet?
DeleteIt’s over is just to wait for the confirmation because a friend of mine he got a mail that his flight is cancelled to Saarbrücken in March and he call there and they say all the flights in March are cancelled from TZL.
DeleteI check even the Flightradar the aircraft was flight direct from Halmstad to Bari and from there to Foggia and tomorrow have a flight to MXP so it’s just over just wait for the confirmation. Very sad really and I think that’s the end for the Airport.
I think that Wizz will return with a base in the future.
ReplyDeleteGive all the money Wizzair wants, only thing to keep TZ alive, no wizzair = no Tuzla aviation, simple as that.
ReplyDeleteThe base could have worked with a better support budget. They gave up just before the start of the high season. So cash has just been burned for absolutely nothing.
ReplyDeleteMost of these routes were not viable with twice weekly frequencies during winter. They should have first avoided flying on January and February. Then operate from March 1 weekly until summer where you can fly 2 weekly, come back to 1 weekly in September until the end of October and cut flights until Christmas break where you can fly 2-3 rotations for vacation.
In these conditions the business case would have been profitable.
Yeah you are right now i read it’s official they don’t fly anymore very sad and they burn the hole money they could make with that money a lot of things the infrastructure of the airport or what else I don’t know in Tuzla is everything going not upside is going downside and I see the mistakes by the federation government of BiH and Tuzla a end story for Tuzla very sad I was love to fly there with Wizz Air yeah let’s see what happens next I am very curious
DeleteDali je netko od vas letio sa WizzAir? WizzAir u deset godina gotovo da nije smanjio broj Destinacija. Nitko se nepita zasto je WizzAir ostavio samo nekoliko letova iz Tuzle. Zasto je Baza u Tuzli ukinuta. Nasa politika. Subvencije ... blabla. I ta Dijaspora o kojoj se ovdje pise ne leti za 20 eur. Ali ta Dijaspora isto rado financira aerodrom u Tuzli sa svojim dolascima.
DeleteMnogo ljudi gubi posao, ne samo uhljebi, vec Pansioni koji su se napravili, Radnici u Rentacar, nase stjuardese i Piloti. Na kraju svejedno je tko leti iz Tuzle, vec da budu redoviti letovi i da ljudi mogu dolaziti i financirati nas grad.