The Slovenian-registered carrier AlpAvia plans to commence commercial leisure flights from France this month, which will also cover one city in the former Yugoslavia. The airline will wet-lease a Boeing 737-700 aircraft from Greek carrier Lumiwings (featuring the AlpAvia livery), which previously had the jet based in Tuzla. The Slovenian airline will deploy the B737 on operations from Lille, in northern France, and Deauville, in the northwest of the country, to ten European leisure destinations, one of which will be Podgorica. Services between Lille and the Montenegrin capital are set to begin on May 8 and operate on a weekly basis. Tickets are currently provided as part of tour packages, however, the airline appears to have plans to offer seats for individual bookings as well through the inx.aero website.
Registered in 2018 in Ljubljana, AlpAvia is run by Niko Grobelnik, with several individual shareholders from Slovenia. In addition to its venture into commercial aviation, the carrier also operates private business charter flights with its Embraer E145 aircraft. Furthermore, the airline is an Approved Training Organisation, operating a training centre.
Slovenia has several airlines, although the majority do business outside of the country. The largest is Amelia International which provides Aircraft, Maintenance, Crew and Insurance (ACMI) to other carriers, most prominently to Air France. Amelia International is in the process of adding three Airbus A320 aircraft into its growing fleet. The carrier previously confirmed it considered operating scheduled flights out of Ljubljana following the collapse of Slovenia’s former national airline Adria Airways in 2019, however, decided against the move after analysing the market and concluding the return on such an investment would not be sufficient. On the other hand, Slovenia boasts several cargo airlines which operate out of the country, including Solinair and more recently CAMEX Adria Airlines, the sister company of CAMEX Airlines from Georgia, which obtained its Slovenian Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) late last year.
All those airlines and yet no new national carrier
ReplyDeleteSlovenia has successful ACMI's so clearly they have skilled people that know the business. Shame that the government doesn't utilise those people because they are the ones that could run a good national airline for Slovenia.
DeleteACMI is not the same as scheduled flying under your own brand.
Deletethe difference is not that large. or of course the government can keep using criminals and those who have no experience in a successful aviation business.
DeleteACMI earns a lot! It is more expensive than Dry lease, but here the airline also provides crews in addition to the aircraft. As far as I know a plane can make over 1 million euros in a year if it is leased for the whole year.
DeleteAll those aviation people in the government and yet no national carrier + all slovenian airlines flying outside Slovenia. Lol
DeleteSo many airlines. Would be nice if someone actually launched flights from Slovenia.
ReplyDeleteWould you fly on a no name airline using 20+ year jets?
DeleteYeah
DeleteYes
DeleteThe funny thing is Lumiwings had their aircraft painted in AlpAvia livery when they based aircraft in Tuzla. Looks like they knew all along they would not fly from TZL in summer.
ReplyDeleteTrue haha
DeleteThey had employment in the winter. They didn't care about the low LF, the subsidies covered it.
DeleteIn fact, in Slovenia there are more than 10 airlines with larger planes (not counting the Cessna ones). Also some have subsidiary airlines abroad. What happened to those two projects Slovenia Air and KZ?
ReplyDeleteOne was led by a Virgin Islands based fund with no known history. Other one by a Kazakhstani shell company of a known Indian fraudster in the field of aviation with 2-3 bankrupt carriers
DeleteWith two planes in Georgia and one in Slovenia, CAMEX we can count it as a dual AOC airline, so they have three planes😄😉
ReplyDeleteAlthough working abroad, Slovenia attracts more and more investments unlike Croatia. Only 5-6 airlines….
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely true, I think Croatia even has the fewest airlines in all of Europe, not counting small markets like Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia. Tremendous development potential but dormant.
DeleteSlovenia is one of the EU countries where it is relatively easy to get an AOC with less red tape than in other EU countries. That is why Camex and the likes got a Slovenian AOC.
DeleteReally?
DeleteYou are obsessed with Croatia.
DeleteFor?
DeleteHow can one EU country have less strict procedures for obtaining AOC than others? I was under the impression that Austrian or Maltese AOC are popular due to taxation reasons.
DeleteIt's all about the taxes, the rules and the criteria and they are the same everywhere in the EU, as well as in the countries of Europe in general.
DeleteWherever you are the EASA standards are the same, there is no way that safety is not a priority somewhere. If not, there won't be any. The other thing is flexibility, advanced digitization, more staff working in a given local CAA, as Malta for example has. Property, offshore companies and low taxes are not counted here, there is a prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Justice for this.
Delete^I mean the Malta Aviation Authority is very well developed and very well staffed. At the same time, things with companies there and taxes are another matter, it has nothing to do with their good CAA.
DeleteCertainly smaller countries such as Malta, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Slovenia have attracted many new companies in recent years, hosted the development of wet leasing, at the same time, apparently the bureaucracy in Croatia does not allow the launch of such airlines and generally new airlines.... What could be better than exporting a product with good added value abroad?!?
DeleteWhat kind of drugs you are using?
DeleteWhy? Apparently, you do not want your country to move on the right path, but to stay in its communist position.
DeleteIs inx.aero airline? On the site they have information for cooperation with company Jetcom?
ReplyDeleteMontenegro keeps winning!
ReplyDeleteI wish Alp Avia or Amelia opened a base in Ljubljana.
ReplyDelete" The carrier previously confirmed it considered operating scheduled flights out of Ljubljana following the collapse of Slovenia’s former national airline Adria Airways in 2019, however, decided against the move after analysing the market and concluding the return on such an investment would not be sufficient."
DeleteIs it just me or does there seem to be a lot of demand from French market to Montenegro this summer? On top of these flights, Air Montenegro is also flying Lyon, Nantes, Paris...
ReplyDeleteWell, France is the 2nd largest country in the European Union. It's a pretty large market
DeleteAbsolute mad-lads from Lumiwings knew in December that they aren't gonna operate from Tuzla and painted the 737 in the colors of AlpAvia. LOOOOL!
ReplyDeleteYes haha but that were saying the entire time how they would like to fly to Tuzla in summer too.
DeleteIt's a nice livery though
Deletenice???
DeleteInteresting. This is the only 100% Slovenian owned airline
ReplyDeleteThere's also Air Adriatic, which does corporate charter flights
DeleteWhere were these people when Adria was collapsing?
Delete^ Minding their own business and not getting involved in a loss making business ventures.
DeleteLipican Aer maybe also is slovenian 100%?
DeleteIt's amazing how some of these ex-Yu registered airline which do no business in the region have grown. Particularly Amelia.
ReplyDeleteACMI years.
DeleteWhere did they get the capital for this?
ReplyDeleteIt's called Capitalism.
DeleteYou take credits and pay them back. If not you go bancrupt and your creditor gets compensated by the government with taxpayer money.
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