Air Serbia nasce grazie all'accordo con Etihad

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Iniziati in questi giorni i primi voli interni operati da JU col nuovo 330 allo scopo di familiarizzare gli equipaggi in vista del grande evento del 23 Giugno con l'apertura di JFK.

http://www.exyuaviation.com/2016/06/photos-videos-air-serbias-a330-enters.html

In Serbia l'apertura di JFK è vista come uno degli eventi dell'anno, con il primo ministro che ha personalmente comprato il biglietto per il primo volo.
Tra qualche giorno ci sarà addirittura un family day per i dipendenti JU, che potranno portare i propri familiari a vedere il primo aeromobile di lungo raggio registrato nel Paese dopo tantissimi anni.

 

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Tra qualche giorno ci sarà addirittura un family day per i dipendenti JU, che potranno portare i propri familiari a vedere il primo aeromobile di lungo raggio registrato nel Paese dopo tantissimi anni.

Si conosce qual è la provenienza di questo A330? e come è configurato all' interno?

 

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Leggi il post sopra e vedrai i filmati contenuti nell'articolo

 

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Video dell'addestramento dei piloti JU presso il centro addestramento AZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyFv_HidPD4&sns=em

 

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Sembra che JU chiuderà la rotta per ABU DHABI da fine ottobre..

 

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Sembra che JU chiuderà la rotta per ABU DHABI da fine ottobre..

Un altro flop per Etihad visto che uno dei motivi principali per avere comprato AirSerbia era proprio quello di alimentare l'hub di Abu Dhabi

 

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Sembra che JU chiuderà la rotta per ABU DHABI da fine ottobre..

Air Serbia to terminate Abu Dhabi service

Air Serbia will discontinue its daily flights between Belgrade and Abu Dhabi at the end of the 2017 summer season, on October 29, exactly four years since the route's launch. In a statement, the carrier said the move will "allow Air Serbia to redeploy the A319 currently serving the market on shorter routes to maximise returns". It added, "The carrier will outfit its Airbus A319 and A320 narrow-body aircraft with slimmer seats to increase capacity and better utilise its aircraft by focusing on flying to European markets". Despite decent loads on its Abu Dhabi operations, the service is one of its most expensive with eleven hour retun flying time and crew rest in the Emirati capital.

Air Serbia's CEO, Dane Kondić, said, "After conducting an extensive review of our five-year business plan, we have taken the decision to consolidate our network by focusing on our European routes. As part of this, we will be increasing the seat density on our Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft with seats which are better-suited for our shorter flights". He added, "We will also be suspending our second longest route, Belgrade - Abu Dhabi, which will enable Air Serbia to increase the utilisation of our narrow-body Airbus fleet and maximise returns. These steps will increase revenue and help to balance the seasonal fluctuations in our traffic, enabling Air Serbia to keep up a strong pace of growth and mitigate the escalating cost of fuel and other services in the aviation industry".

Etihad Airways will continue operating daily flights between the two capital cities, which are codeshared by Air Serbia, as well as Montenegro Airlines, Air Seychelles, Jet Airways, Sri Lankan Airlines, Virgin Australia and Oman Air. The Emirati carrier is expected to upgrade its equipment from an Airbus A320 aircraft on the route. Abu Dhabi was the first new service launched under the Air Serbia brand in late October 2013. This year, the Serbian carrier has discontinued flights to Istanbul and has not resumed its seasonal services to Kiev and Varna. On the other hand, it will launch flights to Venice on June 1. In a recent interview with EX-YU Aviation News, Mr Kondić said the airline plans to rationalise its operations prior to any future network growth.

EX-YU Aviation

 

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Un altro flop per Etihad visto che uno dei motivi principali per avere comprato AirSerbia era proprio quello di alimentare l'hub di Abu Dhabi

Provo a dimostrati che parli a vanvera.
JU sta per introdurre nuovi sedili a bordo che porteranno ad una densificazione della cabina.

Spariranno le due file di sedili di Business class e verrà introdotta la tendina mobile con il posto bloccato al centro per la Business (che avrà sedili identici alla Economy).

Tutto ciò porterà JU ad utilizzare con maggior profitto le sue macchine su rotte più brevi, sfruttandole di più rispetto ad oggi, dove un singolo 319 è di fatto utilizzato quasi esclusivamente sulla BEG-AUH-BEG.

Inoltre con la nuova configurazione ad alta densità una Business senza più sedili veri di business è certamente mentre appetibile su rotte come la AUH che superano le 5 ore.

La rotta è comunque coperta da EY con volo giornaliero ed è lecito aspettarsi (seppur nulla sia ancora stato annunciato in tal senso) che da Ottobre in poi ci sia un incremento di capacità da parte di EY stessa.

Dove sta il flop?

 

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Intanto si dimezza il feederaggio da BEG verso AUH passando da 2 a un solo volo al giorno cosa che renderà molto meno appetibile il transito visto i tempi piu' lunghi delle connessioni con alcune destinazioni che diventano irraggiungibili salvo night stop.

 

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Intanto si dimezza il feederaggio da BEG verso AUH passando da 2 a un solo volo al giorno cosa che renderà molto meno appetibile il transito visto i tempi piu' lunghi delle connessioni con alcune destinazioni che diventano irraggiungibili salvo night stop.

Cesare, normalmente in questi casi, prima di prendere una decisione, si fanno quattro conti sul rapporto costi/benefici dell'operazione. Nulla è perfetto al 100%, ma se il risparmio conseguito + l'utile ipotizzato nell'utilizzo diverso della macchina è superiore ai mancati introiti dei transiti che vai a perdere, la cancellazione ci sta tutta.
Vero che in questi giorni EY è sulla graticola per la lungimiranza delle scelte in AZ, e quindi legittimo il dubbio, ma non è che si possa sempre trarre la conclusione che una compagnia (qualunque essa sia) vada sistematicamente in perdita perchè cancella un operativo.

 

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Intanto si dimezza il feederaggio da BEG verso AUH passando da 2 a un solo volo al giorno

Questo in realtà ancora non lo sappiamo e da qui a Ottobre con sono ancora 6 mesi.

 

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Per gli amanti delle statistiche, posto una tabella con i LF della BEG-JFK-BEG da giugno 2016 fino a gennaio 2017
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Air Serbia Belgrade - New York - Belgrade average cabin load factor

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Month	Load factor (%) BEG - JFK	Load factor (%) JFK - BEG

[TD="align: center"]JUN 2016[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]81.0[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]91.5[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]JUL[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]72.8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]89.4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]AUG[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]93.9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]59.3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]SEP[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]82.3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]63.3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]OCT[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]55.4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]65.8[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]NOV[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]65.2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]53.3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]DEC[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]70.3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]72.3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]JAN 2017[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]65.6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]79.9[/TD]

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the United States

 

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Riassunto S18 per Air Serbia - una frequenza aggiuntiva su MXP, invariate FCO e VCE

Destination	Frequency S2017	Frequency S2018	Change	Notes
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[TD="align: center"]Abu Dhabi[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]0[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 7[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Amsterdam[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Athens[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▲ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Banja Luka[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] - [/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Beirut[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] - [/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Berlin[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Brussels[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Bucharest[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Copenhagen[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Dubrovnik[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Dusseldorf[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Frankfurt[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Hamburg[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Larnaca[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TH="align: center"]-[/TH]

[TD="align: center"]Ljubljana[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]12[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]12[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]London Heathrow[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Malta[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"] Milan [/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▲ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Moscow[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]New York[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▲ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Ohrid[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]0[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Paris[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Podgorica[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]21[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]21[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Pula[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Prague[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"] Rome [/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Sarajevo[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Sofia[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Split[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Skopje[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]13[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Stockholm[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]St Petersburg[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▲ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Stuttgart[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▼ 1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Tel Aviv[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Tirana[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Tivat[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]21[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]21[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Thessaloniki[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"] Venice [/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Vienna[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Zagreb[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Zurich[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]17[/TD]
[TD="align: center"] ▲ 3[/TD]

EX-YU

 

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Air Serbia repays $63 million Etihad loan

Air Serbia has repaid its second and final loan to Etihad Airways Partners BV, a special purpose vehicle set up by Etihad Airways in September 2015 to raise funds for itself and its equity partners. Last year, the Serbian carrier repaid the first of the two loans, amounting 52.9 million US dollars, despite initially seeking to renegotiate the debt and defer the payments due to the financial strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic. After its request was denied and it faced a default on its debt, the airline made the payment independently in full. The second of the two loans matured this summer, with the Serbian carrier also making the full payment on time. The only other two parties to have successfully repaid their loan to the funding vehicle are Etihad Airways and Etihad Airport Services, while Air Seychelles, Alitalia and Air Berlin have not done so.

Six years ago, Air Serbia’s shareholder Etihad embarked on an international roadshow, supported by lead advisor Goldman Sachs and UAE-based ADS Securities and Anoa Capital, by creating the funding vehicles. The group successfully raised 700 million dollars which were split across the six Etihad Partners entities at the time, including Air Serbia, for a mixture of capital expenditure and investment in fleet, as well as for refinancing. The funding vehicles comprise largely of international investment funds. The two Air Serbia loans, amounting to a total of 115.9 million dollars, were the two biggest financial obligations the airline had taken on from lenders.

Air Serbia previously noted it was able to restructure its business thanks to the loans, which led to record results over the past few years. “After the restructuring, which was possible thanks to the funds from this loan as well, the company recorded its biggest expansion in 2019, carrying a record 2.81 million passengers and flying to as many as 23 new destinations in just one year and launching operations from two new airports in Serbia - Niš and Kraljevo. During the first months of 2020, Air Serbia continued to grow, so in January and February, the number of passengers carried increased more than 20%, year over year. After resuming flights on May 21, 2020, the company remained focused on gradually increasing frequencies where possible, while safeguarding the health of passengers and employees”, the airline said. It previously noted the repayment of the first loan was proof of the company’s sound and responsible management before and during the crisis, and during the recovery from the consequences of the pandemic.

Air Serbia repays $63 million Etihad loan

Air Serbia repays second and final loan to Etihad Airways Partners.

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