Kosovo allocates €2 million for diaspora routes

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Pristina Airport control tower with Wizz Air plane departing in the distance

Kosovo’s government adopted a decision yesterday to allocate two million euros to support air routes serving the diaspora. The funding is intended to help maintain or develop flights to destinations with significant expatriate communities, potentially through route subsidies, airline incentives or other forms of operational support aimed at strengthening connectivity. No further details or explanation was given for the measure.

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  1. Anonymous10:32

    This is either for GP to stay afloat, or for someone like Wizz to take it and base a plane or two there. Depends on what the gov connections to GP are, as it's clear by now its money laundering ops

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    1. Anonymous10:33

      Someone please explain to me how owning an airline can be a money laundering operation

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    2. Anonymous10:40

      Owning a traditional airline that sells most of the tickets online nowdays - impossible. Owning something like GP, or even worse Prishtinatickets is relatively easy. You set up local ticket shops, and every day you sell a few ghost tickets with cash. Those people aren't real or don't show up to the flight, and you get money in the company that's clean.

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    3. Anonymous10:41

      It's one of the most heavily regulated and cashless industries in the world, but yeah everything I don't like = money laundering

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    4. Anonymous10:44

      Ann 10:41 the Ann 10:40 gave you a real example of how things work.

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    5. Anonymous10:46

      10:33 and 10:41 never heard of fake invoices.

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    6. Anonymous10:53

      "The scheme of laundering 2 million Euros with airline tickets, this is the person arrested yesterday in Pristina"

      https://reporteri.net/en/lajme/skema-e-shpelarjes-se-2-milione-eurove-me-avio-bileta-ky-eshte-i-arrestuari-dje-ne-prishtine/

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    7. Anonymous10:54

      article is in english

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    8. Anonymous11:00

      LOL They literally arrested someone for the airline ticket scheme fraud, yet some people on here claim its impossible to steal money through airline tickets. Everything is possible, especially in Kosovo

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    9. Anonymous11:07

      I assume it would be very easy to launder money through an airline. Open a catering or a merchandise business on the side and have the airline buy products from them at inflated prices.

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    10. Prepelica11:08

      Exactly my thoughts, this is to keep GP (or their next incarnation) afloat.

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    11. Anonymous11:24

      I agree with the comments that’s very suspicious how they are working, last summer the route between Paris and Pristina there was no communication on that and no possibility for exemple to book by the website of gp aviation because this route didn’t exist on their site

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    12. Anonymous12:00

      Well they are getting another 737 - 25178/2199 so no idea what to think about it

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    13. Anonymous12:18

      "You set up local ticket shops, and every day you sell a few ghost tickets with cash." now i get it why there are a dozen of online ticket shops that use the same graphic interface

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    14. Anonymous14:54

      You guys are conflating airlines with tourist agencies. You can absolutely launder money through a company like Prishtinatickets, but that's a separate issue from GP

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    15. Anonymous15:45

      didnt that guy buy GP now?

      "Official Tour Operator of GP Aviation Ltd" whatever that means

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    16. Anonymous15:51

      a vehicle

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    17. Anonymous17:13

      Yes Edvin Rramanaj the new owner, Ganesh Piga now is only CEO.

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    18. Anonymous18:46

      This makes no sense. Who are these non-passengers who buy these fake tickets? What name and ID do they give? And how does Kosovo still have so many passenhers?

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  2. Anonymous10:49

    These routes need fiancnail support the least.

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  3. Anonymous10:58

    so much for being interested in leissure routes. At least they are honest

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    1. Anonymous11:01

      one is what airport wants, the other is what govenrment wants.

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  4. Anonymous11:36

    Money for guys that leave the country. Bravo Balkan 👏

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  5. Anonymous12:22

    wish Visit Kosovo was here to give us some more infos if he knows

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  6. Anonymous13:13

    According to finance minister, this measure is to help airlines from the price increase of jet fuel. It will be open for all carriers to apply to get money so they maintain the their current schedule or increase their flights. He did not elaborate further on how it will work. A lot is left unexplained.

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    1. Anonymous20:03

      I agree , there is no any suggestion for new route or airline.

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  7. Anonymous20:05

    What else gasto airports can go to PRN🤔 they basically have all of their demand airports ....Obviously their instensions and their most important routes are the gasto ones not leisure and tourists.

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