NEWS FLASH
Wizz Air has won a tender commissioned by the Macedonian government to perform three repatriation flights for stranded Macedonian nationals in Germany. The budget airline will tomorrow operate flights to Berlin and Cologne Bonn, while it will run rescue flights to Ljubljana and Memmingen today.
What a surprise. Don't?
ReplyDeleteits not their issue when nobody else applied
DeleteMany others applied as well. In this time of crisis every airline is seeking new opportunities.
DeleteWow no way, that's shocking.
ReplyDeleteits more shocking that no exyu airlines applied. not that they are too busy at the moment
DeleteJU is busy flying its citizens back home. Didn't you see JU flying to LAX to take American safely home and then flying back with 6 million gloves? Or how they are flying to China all the time, A320 made several rounds and back. JU is keeping busy these days. Yesterday another A320 arrived with 174/174 passengers from Germany.
Deleteall fleet busy? give us a break
DeleteEnough planes are employed.
Deleteyes but why not earn something plus
DeleteAnon 10:35 please don't spread propaganda here. Air Serbia planes are not so busy. I just checked FlightRadar, more then half of fleet didn't have flights recently. Also, Air Serbia planes made 3 round-trips to China in total, 2 with A330 and one with A320, so NO they are not flying to China all the time.
DeleteА320 made two rounds, I work for JU so stop spreading fake news just because you have issues with ASL. Also, FR24 is not a reliable source because many flights were not even listed on there since it didn't recognize the route. So you are the one who is spreading propaganda and singling out ASL on here. Fact is that no one is applying becuse they know Wizz is getting these flights like they always do.
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DeleteWhat did the tender stipulate, are the flights fully paid by the government? The repatriated will pay nothing, right? Kosovo allowed some flights, but I think passengers paid their tickets and they were sent directly to 14 day compulsory quarantine.
ReplyDeletePassengers will pay for their flights. You have it in the link that is in the article.
Deleteeven german stranded passengers are paying. Before check-in they need to sign a paper but the amount is stil not clear https://www.aerotelegraph.com/rueckholfluege-koennen-fuer-urlauber-teuer-werden
DeleteRepatriation flights, organised by Slovenian MFA, are for free. But voluntary donations are welcome, not only from passangers on those flights. https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/izganjanje-evropejcev-iz-latinske-amerike-do-jutri-do-polnoci-odidite/518396
DeleteFor sure someone who have the planes in Skopje will apply...
ReplyDeleteand mandatory quarantined at the airport terminal for 2 weeks.
ReplyDeleteWizzair will have 9 (nine) flights on 30.03. to PEK to bring medical supplies to Hungary.
ReplyDeleteLet's be frank, bottom line it's cheaper and makes more sense that someone with crew and planes (though not sure if they stayed) at Skopje gets the flights. Maybe not exactly per tender terms, but come om, how much really is nowadays in our region. Let's be happy the stranded pax will get home well and it hopefully cost them less than a 3 legs flight done by any other non Skopje based airline!
ReplyDeleteGetting Wizz to do it in SKP is the logical choice in this situation. What is crazy is tender process during crisis.
DeleteIf SKP wants to project image of transparency, once this crisis is over they should give incentives to carriers other than Wizz and have tender rules in the future that would exclude companies like Wizz. That would be the right thing to do, not this tender in crisis.