Adria Airways will expand its fleet with the addition of a Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft, which is expected to arrive in Ljubljana on July 18. In a statement to EX-YU Aviation News, the Slovenian carrier said, "We can confirm the lease and delivery of one Bombardier CRJ900 in the upcoming days which will be registered in Slovenia, leased from a subsidiary of our existing leasor Regional One (and previously operated by Air Nostrum)". As EX-YU Aviation News learns, the aircraft will be registered S5-AFA. It was manufactured in 2006. Adria is currently negotiating the acquisition of twelve Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, with their delivery expected next year, if the deal is finalised successfully.
Following the arrival of its latest jet, Adria will boast a fleet of thirteen aircraft, including seven CRJ900s, three CRJ700s and three Airbus A319s. One of its CRJ900s is currently being wet-leased to Star Alliance partner Swiss International Air Lines, where it will be deployed until September 30. Furthermore, earlier this month, Adria based its third CRJ700 in Ljubljana as it was previously stationed in Lodz, from which it suspended operations on July 1. Later this year, the lease for one of its CRJ700 jets will expire, while leasing arrangements for the six CRJ900s will end in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Leases for the three Airbus A319s run until 2021 and 2024. Adria currently boasts the youngest fleet out of all the national airlines in the former Yugoslavia.
On top of its fleet expansion, the Slovenian carrier posted improved operating results for the first half of the year. According to the "Uporabna stran" portal, Adria handled 531.447 passengers over the past six months, representing an increase of 10%. This was accompanied by an increase in the number of aircraft movements, rising from 9.117 last year to 9.645 in 2017, up 5.8%. The improved figures come as a result of higher demand for both scheduled and charter flights this summer. Despite the closure of its Polish base in Lodz, the Slovenian carrier has added frequencies to a number of routes out of Ljubljana including Podgorica, Sarajevo, Skopje, Pristina and Amsterdam. Earlier this year, Adria's CEO, Arno Schuster, said, "In general, we will focus on two areas of our business - regular and charter flights. We will generate enough revenue in the high season to secure liquidity throughout the year. This is the plan we are pursuing". He added, "We expect a successful year. We are always exploring possibilities for new destinations and new markets but we are currently more focused on improving existing frequencies".
So soon JP and OU will have the same number of aircraft?
ReplyDeleteYou can change prospective: compare number of aircrafts and total amount of passengers. You can add JU. :) It is very interesting to compare OU JP and JU. :)
DeleteThey should all join forces and do more to compete against their one and only rival - low cost airlines.
DeleteWizz Air has done more for this region then all of them together.
Delete@Anon 10:41AM
DeleteYou mean like JAT back in Yugoslavia days?
@Anon 10:56AM
Wizz has done more for HUNGARY!
It's odd that they are getting a new plane if they plan to get Sukhois.
ReplyDeleteThey will most likely keep these for their leasing business
DeleteWhy? If they get them it is highly unlikely all will arrive straight away. This is actually an indication they might add some new routes.
DeleteMaybe we finally see those Tehran flights
DeleteA CRJ900 can't make it to Tehran ;)
DeleteNo, but it can free up an Airbus to do the long rotation here and back.
DeleteActually, I am pretty sure Sukhoi is in a position to deliever 15 aircraft at the same time to Adria. Plenty of them stored (tells plenty about quality of the aircraft) and production capabilities are FAR from full.
DeleteBrussels Airlines said last week they were pleased with the quality and performance of the aircraft. If it good for them, I'm sure it would be good for Adria,
DeleteOf course, Brussels Airlines is not actually operating the aircraft. Important fact people forget to mention.
DeleteOperating or not, it was the CEO of Brussels Airlines who said it.
Deletehttp://atwonline.com/leasing/brussels-ceo-wet-leased-ssj100s-live-expectations
SSJs will come to Adria for next summer season. Croatia Airlines is also in advanced talks.
DeleteThere is a rumour that CityJet will takeover Adria.
Delete^Do you have any more info. That would be interesting. City jet was mentioned several times as a potential buyer during the privatization process. Also that would mean 4K would exit quickly.
DeleteInteresting article on Adria and Sukhois
Deletehttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sukhoi-looking-sell-12-x-ssj100s-adria-airways-owned-4k-chlumecky
@AnonymousJuly 13, 2017 at 9:42 AM:
DeleteNot at this time, however it would make sense. Apparently, CityJet is looking to buy 2 companies. 4K have said it themselves they're not in it for the long run.
@ Anonymous 9.11
DeleteMaybe Teheran, Central Asia and Caucasus could work, if they offered good connections to their European network.
What a fool that Chlumecky is, don't even bother reading.
DeleteGood to see that the pilot strike from earlier this year didn't affect their numbers too much.
ReplyDeleteThere were only a few cancelled flights. They wetleased planes to get people to their destination so no major disruption.
DeleteThere were more than a "few" cancelled flights.
DeleteThis is all nice but what about their finances. Seems every ex-Yu airline forgets to report on that.
ReplyDeleteYes and nobody really said here that the cost of Adria's flight tickets rose. At least I think so. On the other hand also the number of passengers rose which can only mean good.
DeleteBest wishes for Adria!
Haplek
Well if the number of passengers rose then it means they sold the lower classes.
DeleteThey are not losing as much money as they did before which is a good thing. Maybe these guys manage to turn the airline around. That's why they were brought in after all.
DeleteI don't think anybody managed to turn anything around- its just that oil prices are low now, so even the worst run company manages to break even.
DeleteHow come ASL then doesn't even manage that and has to cut flights and aircraft?
Delete*Air Serbia: Revenue 375 Mio
DeleteNr of aircraft 21
Nr of Employees: 1900
*Adria Airways: Revenue 305 Mio
Nr of aircraft: 12
Employees: 375
* Source: Wikipedia
In summary,
Adria makes almost the same revenue with less aircraft and 6 times less workforce
Keep in mind that the employee numbers you listed for JU include subsiduaries - Air Serbia Catering, Air Serbia Technical and Air Serbia Ground Handling Services.
DeleteIf so than Air Serbia has 2514 employees
DeleteFor how long are they leasing the additional CRJ900?
ReplyDeleteOtherwise convratulations to Adria! Well done!
Haplek
They are adding it to Slovenian registry so probably a few years.
DeleteExactly, thanks... 😊
DeleteHaplek
I'm glad they are focusing on Ljubljana and didn't give up like the former management who said there is no market in Slovenia and started unsuccessful ventures in Poland and Albania.
ReplyDeleteAt least he was honest.
DeleteIf there was no market their passenger numbers would not have grown.
DeleteIt is no doubt that the market is relatively small but it is a matter of have you completely exploited that market.
DeletePlus Slovenia is becoming a more popular tourist destination and the number of visitors is rising a lot so new opportunities are opening up.
DeleteAdria did the well thing whith transfer passenegers. Just look on their timetables and you can see why they add some flights.
DeleteI'm very interested to see how their winter schedule will look like. They will have to do something with all those planes.
ReplyDeleteThey can always do ACMIs.
DeleteThey will probably have more frequencies on several routes, like this summer.
DeleteSo several leases are expiring next year, which completely fits in with the Sukhoi story.
ReplyDeleteBut getting an additional CRJ900 now does not fit into that story.
DeleteI'm glad they are getting their act together. I think competition at LJU will become bigger and bigger now. The management there is trying to attract new airlines so Adria will have to deal with this too. So making themselves more competitive and offering new services is a positive development.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know what happened to their Lodz staff? Did they get layed off or did they transfer some of them to Ljubljana?
ReplyDeleteTheir contracts expired, no one transfered to Ljubljana
DeleteWhat's good is that there are other jobs around for CRJ type rated pilots in north-east Europe. CityJet is expanding on behalf of SAS (VNO base will be next after recently launched TLL base). Maybe Nordica is hiring too?
DeleteGreat news Adria! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteOT - dva Dreamlinera danas u Hrvatskoj, jedan u ZAG, drugi upravo sletio u DBV. Go Croatia!
ReplyDeleteThe one in ZAG is DeerJet?
DeleteNo, UAE government. The same one that was in BEG a few weeks ago.
DeleteAnon 10:17
DeleteIt's not the same one, in BEG there was a B787-8 and in ZAG i B787-9
It is. You are being silly and sad at the same time. The UAE 787-9 landed in Belgrade.
DeleteHere is video proof.
https://youtu.be/jyvQzSbchCg
Such an old-fashioned livery.
DeleteThey are going back to the strategy that worked for them during the 1990s and early 2000s.
ReplyDeleteHad it worked they wouldn't have had the financial disaster in the later 2000s.
DeleteThey are returning back to basics. Making LJU a transfer spot for Balkans and Eastern Europe.
Delete@9.55
DeleteActually those two are not linked. The success they had back then was ended when the rest of ex-Yu started opening up, visa requirements cancelled and LCC started serving the region.
4K seems to be doing a good job with Adria.
ReplyDeleteWe don't know how they are doing because we don't have the financial results. That is the only factor you can measure success.
DeleteTheir finances must have improved if they are able to lease and constantly expand and replace aircraft, as they have been doing.
DeleteLet's hope it works out for them, they seem to be planning increases in the winter schedule.
DeleteWhat was the LF? What's their busiest route?
ReplyDeleteProbably Frankfurt where they have 3 daily flights.
DeleteWhat's the point of getting new planes in this kind of financial situation.
ReplyDeleteWhy is everyone so cynical around here? Seems all you people want is for all the national airlines to go bankrupt ASAP.
DeleteYou can understand that people don't like JP, when taxpayers were putting millions of their money into the airline every year, while they continued to sell tickets for 500+ EUR.
DeleteI don't think people care much nowadays, when JP is private entity.
Lep te hebo jedan lizuju Swissu dok uzimaju drugi od Regional One. Kakvi majstori.
ReplyDeleteExactly! Makes absolutely no sense.
DeletePa ako Svisu lizuju za 5 banki a od Ridznala dobivaju za 3 banke, onda su itekako majstori
DeleteGood work for Adria. Happy to see them expand again after so many years of cost cutting.
ReplyDeleteThey have been expanding for 6 months now thank god. It also had a positive impact on LJU.
DeleteI wish they focused on developing Pritisna as a secondary hub before it gets too much competition and Wizz eventually opens a base.
ReplyDeleteDidn't they add flights from Pristina to Stuttgart this summer?
DeleteThat's just seasonal and once pert week.
DeleteIt's always good to see an airline expanding its fleet. Let's hope for new destinations.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they wet lease some CRJs to Croatia Airlines this winter.
ReplyDeleteWhy would they. Croatia Airlines has an Airbus stored during the winter which they can use (and probably will) this winter.
DeleteJP west leased on Monday their CRJ 900 to OU on Lisbon route.
DeleteGo Adria!!! They seem to have some sort of strategy and I really hope it works for them.
ReplyDeleteThey have a very good fleet in general. What they need is a route network and strategy to match it. Unfortunately I think their new strategy "to create Ljubljana into a hub for Balkan transfers" is time long gone.
DeleteI agree. This ship has sailed.
DeleteDon't get it how Adria and Croatia Airlines can all find the funds to lease planes, and let's not kid ourselves they are far from being in a great financial situation, yet Air Serbia can't.
ReplyDeleteBad management.
DeleteThey got an A330-200 last year.
DeleteJust compare number of employees in each of the ex-yu airlines, and you will find out why (among many other things, of course)
Deletewhy don't they just get rid of the excess workforce?
DeleteWatch and learn JU... Adria is leasing new planes and growing while JU can't get its act together and lease a single additional A319 as a replacement for the archaic and passenger-unfriendly B733.
DeleteNot that. They can't replace the Atr's which are in a much dire need of replacement than the Boeing's.
DeleteStill think they should have merged with Croatia Airlines :D Now that would be a nice fleet of Airbuses, CRJs and Dash planes.
ReplyDeleteAnd so many people commenting here were predicting their bankruptcy just a few months ago.
ReplyDeleteDon't speak too soon.
DeleteWhat was their loss in 2016?
ReplyDeleteThey haven't been published yet. And as a private company, I don't think they are required to make them public.
DeleteThey have to, but will most likely be only in September or so.
DeleteWith so many planes and not enough destinations to serve, now is the time to base one in Maribor.
ReplyDeleteBeen there done that.
DeleteWhen VLM Airlines Slovenia turns Maribor into a mega hub, I'm sure Adria will reconsider its position :P
DeleteWhy base one in Maribor? VLM is putting 20 A320s and 10 A330s next year to MBX.
DeleteJust wait a bit :)
No no no no.... Not next year. By plan they did that in June. As we can see there are so many planes in MBX
DeleteHappy for Adria :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great news. Adria will succeed. I am definitely sure and I think they could surprise us with some bigger plane :)
ReplyDeleteBigger plane? For what exactly?
DeleteDidn't they wet lease an A340 once.
DeleteWhen did they do that?
DeleteDuring 2015 summer. They also leased B757
Deletehttp://www.exyuaviation.com/p/adria-wet-leases-b757.html
lets do : SKP - FRA :D
ReplyDeleteI do think they made a mistake of not opening a base in Skopje like they planned. Instead they went to Poland and we saw how successful that was.
DeleteIt is great to see a lot of good news coming from Adria recently. I really do hope they finalize that Sukhoi deal. Would be an amazing achievement to order so many new planes.
ReplyDeleteSukhoi order would be a positive development for you?
DeleteWhy not?
DeleteOrdering aircraft that virtually no-one else in the Western world wants, together with rumours that lease for those aircraft will be more or less free isn't good news.
DeleteSo you're basing your arguments on what exactly, rumours? I wish to remind you that there are 134 units of the type built and operating. The air isn't any different in Mexico, Asia than in the West ;)
DeleteYou do realize CityJet ordered 15 of the type? Lol
DeleteTake a good look and you see that more than 10 airplanes (10% of the fleet) are stored. Gets even worse if you count the aircraft that crashed in Indonesia.
DeleteGood, two western operators and roughly 200 orders since 2005. E-Jet E2 hasn't even started flying yet and they've got 230+ orders.
But back on topic, there is no operational reason for JP to switch to SSJ100. It has the same seating capacity as CRJ900/1000, roughly the same burn and brings no additional operational capability. But you have to train all cabin crew, all pilots, engineers for the new type, plus initially the dispatch rate might be lower due to inexperience on type.
The only reason this would make sense if they could lease the aircraft at a laughable low rate, or even for free, which was speculated before. Throw in couple (all?) free training courses for the crews, and it starts to make sense. Especially when Sukhoi is desperate for more Western operators.
16 out of 55 PW1100G A320neos are grounded, does that mean it's also unreliable as an aircraft? Was DC-10 also an unreliable aircraft because of its faulty cargo doors?
DeleteSM posted on here that SN's CEO expressed his satisfaction with the SSJ.
I think you need to give it a rest, the Russian airliner is great.
I guess they're the one to decide and not you?
DeleteObviously the owners can do whatever they want.
DeleteMy point was just that the potential order of 12 SSJ100s presents completely different picture (financial-wise) than ordering 12 aircraft from Bombardier, Boeing, Airbus or Embraer.
And again, this has nothing to do with SSJ100 coming from Russia. It has to do with its lease price, which would be most likely well below the market level for similar-sized aircraft.
All aircraft manufacturers do it. Look at Bonbardier and the price they gave Delta. Look at the price EK pays for the A380...
DeleteOf course they do it, but not for 10 aircraft, but much larger volumes.
DeleteDelta ordered 75 aircraft (CS100) and EK operates 95 A380s with 45 more orders, which represents almost 3/4 of worldwide A380 fleet.
Different game...
OT: Air Serbia let za Atinu u 00:30 LF 100%, 75% transfer putnici uglavnom Amerikanci, Španci, Australija... Stjuardese izuzetno ljubazne, udobna nova sedista, zaista za svaku pohvalu. Povratak u 16:35h iz Atine, LF 93% recimo, dosta transfer putnika, kao i turista iz Azije za Beograd. Koliko smem da primetim, jako puno transfernih putnika na BG aerodromu. Poprilicno svetski izgleda.
ReplyDeleteWondering where the Spanish people came from on the BEG-ATH flight as well as the Asians on the ATH-BEG?
DeleteThank you for your review!
DeleteIf you think about it, their current A319 are carrying almost the same number of passengers like their old A320s.
DeleteI think this June all these additional seats on popular routes like ATH, TIA, BEY, ZRH... will help boost BEG's numbers as well.
Awesome!!! Happy for Adria and even more for Ljubljana!!
ReplyDelete13 planes is not bad. Hope they expand a bit more.
ReplyDeleteWho knows maybe the SSJ story is just a strategy to get better conditions from other ac suppliers such as Bombardier, MRJ or Embraer. We all know that Al Baker for example play this game with Airbus and Boeing.
ReplyDeleteLets wait and see. At least we see some progress at JP since 4K took over
OT American Airlines ends codeshares with Etihad and Qatar
ReplyDeletehttps://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2017/07/13/american-airlines-ends-codeshares-etihad-qatar-airways/
QR is so many light years ahead of AA in terms of service/quality.
DeleteI wish them to somehow manage the US on its own (or find a suitable partner there, which would be a real challenge since most US carriers are just plain bad).
Easy if the government finances u. I cld also drive Ferrari if the government pays or gives free credits
DeleteThese arguments are getting very, very old...especially since none of US3 would never have been near big as they are without state help. Pot calling the kettle black.
DeleteThe biggest problem is that the US3 charge crazy fares while providing no decent service. Have you seen how expensive domestic flights are? For a two hour flight you are lucky to pay €250
Delete250 EUR for 2 hours is about what an airline should earn if...
DeleteIf for example flight crews would have contracts with reasonable conditions
US Carriers as also Eurooean Carriers got subsidies, but compared to size never in those amounts like the 3 Gulf receive it. Also times and business culture were different. In addition, no airline in the US or Europe ever doubled its seize within 5 years
But anonymous 1055: i support you that US Carriers service culture especially in coach class is a national joke
@ JU520 BEGLAX Agree 100% with wjat you said.
DeleteI am pretty sure Ryanair, Wizz Air snd maybe Norwegian doubled at some point
DeleteI don't understand why so many EX-YU people are cheering for Adria. Adria died when it was taken over by the German investment group which own 100% of the branding and lease is back to the now German airliner which has no ties what so ever to Slovenia or the rest of EX-YU. You might as well cheer for Qantas at this stage.
ReplyDeleteFace it, Inex-Adria is long gone and Slovenia currently does not have a national airline just like Macedonia, it is sad and unfortunately but that is what happens when regional super powers collapse and get bought out by other intact regional super powers. Next all our airport will be bought out so, game over folks, we will no longer own our airlines or airports because we are incompetent people that is too busy fighting each other and not looking at the big picture.
The problem is that people, especially so in this part of the world, are in general very bad in running a company in a profitable/sensible way, if there is unlimited supply of funds.
DeleteFor example, why would you try to make an airline profitable, if you know the government will bail you out every couple of years with tens of millions of Euros? Isn't it better that everybody is happy, everybody gets a bit extra money, even through relatives with companies that act as service providers to the airline? Hire relatives from current employees so the fun continues?
If a government-owned company can make at least a neutral financial result (i.e. no bailout required) for years and years, there is no need to sell it to a private owner. However, I don't see a point of having a national carrier if tickets are not free (or at least very cheap), while taxpayers still have to bail it out every year with millions of their tax money.
I think most people would agree there is no logic in having government-owned supermarket chain, where the government has to put 100 millions of Euros in every year and then the consumer pays the same price as in Lidl, Hofer, Aldi or somewhere else?
Why wouldn't the same logic apply to national airlines?