Sunday, April 12, 2015
Six airlines have signed up to use Timisoara Traian Vuia Airport as an alternative to Belgrade in case of adverse weather conditions in the Serbian capital, the Romanian airport said on Friday. Turkish Airlines is the latest to join a growing list of carriers, including Air Serbia, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa, Wizz Air and TAROM, which have signed up to use Timisoara Airport as a back-up. “Airlines chose Timisoara Airport due to the excellent conditions of existing infrastructure including a 3.500 metre runway that can serve any aircraft and a lighting system for efficient navigation and landing in low visibility”. The news comes as a blow to Serbia’s Niš Constantine the Great Airport which enjoys good visibility throughout most of the year but lacks an instrumental landing system (ILS). Timisoara is some 160 kilometres north-east of Belgrade.
For how many airports does Belgrade serve as an alternate?
ReplyDeleteThis is just ridiculous: Instead of investing in ILS on Nis airport as soon as possible, we're losing money to Romania in case of bad weather. And for the passengers the trip Timisoara-Belgrade is much worse than Nis-Belgrade: A border crossing, no highways...
ReplyDelete+1 insane as usual. They signed an agreement with INI few months ago and they now announcing Timisoara as alternative airport
ReplyDeleteYes, ridiculous is a kind word to use considering the fact that Nis will have an ILS system by the end of 2015; Nis is 2 hours away by using straight-line E-75, and the government is already investing in the Nis airport to accomodate WIZZ AIR that will start operations in June.
ReplyDeleteThe costs of landing in Nis would just be left pocket, right pocket.
Landing in another country, with an EU border crossing, just makes a lot of sense.
Why not look towards Bulgaria, they have figured it out. Planes land in Plovdiv, 90 min away from Sofia.
Keep the money and the jobs in Serbia.
This "national" career actually drives me menthal! This is one of the reasons why I will avoid them in feature!
ReplyDeleteWhen it gets ILS maybe they will shift the alternate airport to INI. You cannot expect that an airline, just because it is "national" creates unfavorable agreements. Its not their job to think about national interests, its governments. If, and when, they install ILS at INI airlines will switch if better agreement is reached. Love and patriotism do not exist in business
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DeleteKoliko svi insistiraju sa tim ILS-om kao preduslovom za sletanje u Niš, dođe mi da se zapitam da li dotične kompanije uopšte imaju poverenja u mogućnosti svojih posada da lete jedan običan VOR prilaz. Inače pre 20-ak dana u Niš je bez problema sletela mlazna Cesna Tyrolean Air Ambulance-a po jako lošem vremenu skoro na minimumu koristeći novi VOR prilaz za stazu 29.
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