NEWS FLASH
The former state operator of Zagreb Airport, Zagreb Airport Ltd. (not to be confused with the current operator Medjunarodna Zračna Luka Zagreb - MZLZ) has failed to attract investors for the construction of a new hotel and a retail and business complex as part of its planned “airport city” development near the terminal building, valued at around forty million euros. Following the launch of an international public tender last year, no investors came forward, and a repeated call also failed to generate any interest. An email invitation was sent to 5.783 addresses worldwide, targeting investors, hotel chains and advisors in the hospitality sector. The company noted 32.2% of emails were opened, and there were a total of 97 visits to the Zagreb Airport website where the tender conditions were published. However, no actual applications were submitted. “Unfortunately, even after the second repeated call we did not receive a single expression of interest. To submit an expression of interest, applicants were required to file the appropriate registration and pay a fee of 5.000 euros as proof of serious intent”, the company said.
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ReplyDeleteJašta!
DeleteNo demand for a hotel, because ZAG is not a hub
ReplyDeleteBudapest is also not a hub, so they should demolish their hotel then?
DeleteNo, but they have 20 million passengers. Surely lot of them are transferring
DeleteZagreb is a hub for Croatia Airlines, and not a base. It's simply to understand.
DeleteBUD on top of it has also lots of wide body ops including Freighter Operations QR, CV or Chinese Carriers
DeleteThere are enough hotels within 10mins taxi ride. It takes longer to get to a bus stop for the hotel shuttles at major airports.
ReplyDeleteThere is no demand for an airport hotel in Zagreb because Zagreb is not a hub
DeleteZagreb is a hub for Croatia Airlines.
DeleteNow, this is hilarious
Delete@11:12 Learn the difference between a Hub and a Base
DeleteZagreb is everything and all that. Lol
DeleteIts too small of an airport for an airport hotel. I flew from ZAG few days ago in the afternoon (around 16:00 on the 18th of Jan) and it seemed quite empty.
ReplyDeletealways great to make such assumptions based on a single january afternoon
DeleteSuch a shame for an outstanding airport like that:))
ReplyDeleteSo all they did was send an email and check how many opened it?
ReplyDeleteHow To Sell 1.0
DeleteWhere do flight crews rest currently?
ReplyDeleteDon't know why they need an airport hotel, they have a new Novotel at Slavonska Ave. in the outskirts of ZAG, just 6 km away from the airport. Or the Garden Hill in Velika Gorica just 3 km away from the airport. Or the the Royal Airport Hotel, 2 km from the airport. Also the Pullman is just 6.9 km away from the airport.
ReplyDeleteRyanair central does not need a hotel, maybe a hostel? Hehe
ReplyDeleteNot funny. Ryanair is one of the biggest airlines in the world and only in the Balkans is it funny. The rest of the world just uses it. But here we’re better than that, right? Trash everywhere, corruption and mass emigration, but we’re better.
DeleteRyanair is a butt of the joke in all of Europe, lay off the chauvinism.
DeleteYeah, Ryanair is a joke, you are right. Number one in Europe. One of the biggest in the World. Hundreds of aircraft. Hundreds of destinations. Millions of happy passengers who fly convenient and cheap. Hundreds of millions of profits. Pure joke.
DeleteThere's a 4 star Hotel Royal right across from the old terminal, a couple of 2 and 3 star hotels, several hostels, a bunch of Airbnb-s - all in Gorica.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally there are like half a dozen decent hotels within 2 - 3 km from the airport.
And then, there's a question of who would actually use this - technically 2nd 4 star airport hotel, given that, as someone has mentioned, ZAG is not a hub?
The last flights arriving to ZAG late at night, are DBV and SJJ. The last flight to Skopje leaves, Zagreb late at night but that is an outbound flight, while for those passengers from Dubrovnik and Sarajevo, Zagreb is the destination. Otherwise they would've taken an earlier flight, right? Unless they or the plane was late, but that is an extraordinary situation.
At any event, another airport hotel - albeit this one right next to the main terminal, simply doesn't make any business sense. That whole thing is a nothingburger. As of now. Perhaps in the future things will change, I don't know, but given the way they are right now, anyone investing and building that multi-million euro hotel would be throwing their money away. Literally.
If it's a nothingburger, why didn't you call it out before this embarrasing lack of interest was made public? Why didn't you object years ago when grandiose ambitions for the airport were unveiled including airport hotel, rail link to the airport etc?
DeleteAnd how do you know I didn't?? I'm talking about the hotel.
DeleteAs for the new terminal, it is already at near full capacity, so if that's your idea of "grandiose", I don't know what to tell you.
The railway link is necessary and the only thing I have to say about that is, they should've made a decision about it a decade ago, not now.
Just another confirmation and proof of what I 've been saying for ages : You can't develop serious central airport, be it hub or base (following previous posts) without SERIOUS AND STRONG company operating out of it. Croatia Airlines is not serious and strong company. If it were, domestic potentials, regional potentials, long-haul potentials, cargo potentials would have been used, what would have caused others to come, to cooperation, to codeshare,.even LCC presence would have been better in different combinations. You cannot surrender your market to foreigners, do not develop your airline, appoint aparatchiks to keep it down, and than expect central airport on which such an airline, even worse flag carrier is based, to grow and be successful. It is very much related but as long as persons like Oleg Butkovic and Jasmin Bajic are in charge of aviation in Croatia, nothing will change and will even get worse
ReplyDeleteNot disagreeing, just wanted to say your writing style reminds me of a certain US president haha
DeleteWith difference that PIR is right, but the maniac in WAS just talks big non sense
DeleteNot so sure certain US president can write at all. Maybe signature. 🙂
DeleteNot even signature 😉
DeletePIR you are talking complete nonsense as usual. If things are so bad as you think why not emigrate to Australia?
Delete@21:40 PIR often highlights real issues. Yes his style is definatly not to most people's tatses and his belief that Croatia could ever be a major hub is totally overplayed, but he doesnt talk nonsense and your reaction speaks of a very thin skin for valid citicism and says loada about you.
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DeleteOnce again you go personally. Once again you give no explanation why I talk nonsense. 13 percent market share of is nonsense. 2 weekly 30 seater domestic PSO is nonsense. Gdansk has an airport hotel, not having interested investors for the one in ZAG is nonsense. But once again, you are Party soldier who repeats your boss words: who doesn't like it, aufwiedersehen. It is just Australia this time, not Germany. Croatia already lost milion people for being so phantastic to live in, you really think it's good way to go on with even more emigration? Finally, are you not ashamed for so bitterly and ridiculously advocating crime ,corruption and incompetence on both national and lower levels? I want my country to be better and its aviation to be better. You want it worse. I am the one who should stay and who will stay. The one who would be much better for all to leave is you. But I will not go that low to ask you to do it, as you did to me. I ask you to stay, and to open your eyes, and to stop supporting mafiosos who are destroying our beautiful country
But think of all the business from OU? They could have put so many crew in there. The Primeclass lounge count on OU as their best customers!
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