Start-up Slovenia Air plans Ljubljana - Hong Kong flights


Representatives from the company called Dragon Fly Venture Holding recently held talks with the Slovenian Ministry for Infrastructure concerning the establishment of a Ljubljana-based carrier called Slovenia Air, which would operate to points in Europe as well as Hong Kong, in a bid to turn the Slovenian capital into a transfer hub for flights between Europe and Asia. The Ministry referred to the company as an airline, although there are no records of Dragon Fly Venture Holding, nor is it listed in the register of the Slovenian Agency for Public Legal Records and Related Services. The meeting between the two sides took place two weeks ago.

Commenting on the talks, the Ministry for Infrastructure said, “The meeting was called at the initiative of the carrier. At the outset, the carrier's representatives highlighted their desire to provide international flights from Slovenia to individual EU member states, as well as third countries (mainly in Asia). Their idea for improving Slovenia's air connectivity, which includes the establishment of flights to Hong Kong, was presented. Flights would be launched from Ljubljana Airport, and, depending on the development of traffic, Maribor Airport could also be included in the future. They emphasised that public funding for these flights would not be required, but that Slovenia would serve as a transfer point for connections between Europe and Asia”.

Previously, SHS Aviation, which had won a concession for Maribor Airport in 2017, planned to establish a similar airline with flights to Europe and Asia based in Slovenia’s second largest city. Although an airline was established, it was short-lived and SHS Aviation eventually terminated their concession agreement of the airport in 2019. The two are not related. Ljubljana Airport’s former long-time General Manager, Zmago Skobir, previously said it would be theoretically possible for the airport to boast long-haul flights but said it was unlikely.



Comments

  1. Anonymous09:00

    Hahahahahah, one more Maribor SHS fake story!

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    1. Anonymous16:48

      This is perfect story for Slovenian government for buying time *look Slovenian public we are doing something, we will do something whee look -plane- flying- airline* whee

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    2. Anonymous17:46

      Lol when you google "Dragon Fly Venture Holding", the only hits that show up are on this website.

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  2. Anonymous09:01

    That's something but hey, if public funding is not in the picture I'm all for it

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  3. Anonymous09:01

    Yeah, okay

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  4. Anonymous09:01

    Seems legit

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    1. Anonymous09:02

      Government gave them legitimacy by meeting with them.

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  5. Anonymous09:02

    Not realistic at all, only dreams of some former Adria guys.

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    1. Anonymous09:03

      So they are behind this company?

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    2. Anonymous09:05

      Yes

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    3. Anonymous09:07

      The former employees maybe, not the VC that took over Adria

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    4. Anonymous09:13

      True. Some time ago they were addressing former Adria staff to join.

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    5. Anonymous09:33

      Any links?

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  6. Anonymous09:02

    What?!?

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  7. Anonymous09:03

    I see no issue. It says they are not after state funds.

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  8. Anonymous09:04

    Pragusa TWO :p

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  9. Anonymous09:05

    Even better than that start-up for Dubrovnik - US flights

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    1. Anonymous09:09

      Still waiting on Pragusa

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  10. Anonymous09:09

    Considering the government bought SHS's and 4K Invest's story, I would not be surprised they would accept this as plausible.

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    1. Anonymous09:12

      Not a chance. It seems they are too careful after 4K, there is no progress even with more promising cases. But if they say no public funding is needed... just gor for it. I don't know why they are meeting with the government at all.

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  11. Anonymous09:10

    At lest they have a nice webpage :-)
    https://www.dragonflyx.co/

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    1. Anonymous09:16

      MBX as a major European hub. Here we go again...

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    2. Anonymous10:23

      Yes, very nice website with amazing English:

      "Slovenia Air
      Flag carrier of Slovenia
      Connecting Central Europe and Beyong" - is Beyong a new English or Asian word? :D

      This can't be serious....

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    3. Anonymous15:16

      They are AI based, so also translation was probably done by AI, and the AI job was done quite decent :) They will still need at least a bit of a human touch :)

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    4. Anonymous10:31

      https://www.seaplanehk.com/dragonflyx

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  12. Anonymous09:13

    Omg judging by their website they actually have the funding to do it..

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    1. Anonymous09:14

      They claim they have it. No proof so far.

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    2. Anonymous09:33

      But who is behind them?

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  13. Anonymous09:13

    Slovenia Air...

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  14. Anonymous09:19

    Nothing will come of this.

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  15. Anonymous09:19

    They also have a destination map already, this suggests the one of the biggest LOLs of all time.

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  16. Anonymous09:22

    It's always great news when Chinese "investors" arrive.

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  17. Anonymous09:23

    Air India story all over again.

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  18. Anonymous09:23

    In some way, history repeats itself. 4K: Invest once again. They said that they are not interested in government money. Why such a secret? I can't find any information about Dragon Fly Venture Holding. One is some kind of krypto company; one is an American company with a small office in the middle of nowhere; and one is some Canadian company with no investments outside North America. So, I guess just another dream for fun boys.

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  19. Anonymous09:24

    https://www.dragonflyx.co/sloveniaair

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    1. Anonymous10:04

      Thank you. I guess it is a company :-) . .... A Joint Venture of ANISOS, Inc., a British Virgin Island registered company... just saying. I hope Alenka Bratovsek has learned some English words so she can say no.

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    2. Anonymous10:40

      British Virgin Island....red alert....typical place for money laundering.....

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    3. Anonymous10:32

      https://www.seaplanehk.com/dragonflyx

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  20. Anonymous09:26

    Had to check the calendar. It doesn't say 1 April.

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  21. Anonymous09:27

    Nice that they will include Maribor :D

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    1. Anonymous09:32

      Very kind of them lol

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  22. Anonymous09:34

    Someone will laundry money from EU fonds

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  23. Anonymous09:35

    This is what Slovenian aviation has come to.

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  24. This sounds like a good news for April the 1st.

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  25. Anonymous09:35

    Can't wait haha.

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  26. Anonymous09:35

    Any timeline?

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    1. Anonymous09:36

      Scheduled to launch between now and never.

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    2. Very good aircraft this C172XLR

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  27. Anonymous09:37

    So what aircraft would they use to flights to Asia?

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  28. Anonymous09:42

    Hahaha check their web page. It's has all the buzzwords like a crpto scam.

    Anyone who falls for this is an idiot.

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    1. Anonymous09:48

      What I don't understand is why the government even met up with them.

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    2. Anonymous09:51

      A chance to drink a coffee while pretending to work :)

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  29. Anonymous09:42

    This is so funny like for real

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  30. Anonymous09:48

    Have there ever been flights between Ljubljana and Far East Asia?

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    1. Anonymous09:51

      No

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    2. Anonymous12:19

      werent there charters between ljubljana and tokio?

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  31. Anonymous09:51

    Embarrassing for all involved.

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  32. Anonymous09:57

    On a serious note, to where is there most traffic from LJU in the Far East? Any data?

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    1. Anonymous10:01

      Tokyo actually

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    2. Anonymous10:01

      https://www.exyuaviation.com/p/ljubljana-airports-top-asian-markets.html

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    3. Anonymous10:05

      BKK, PVG, PEK, ICN, DEL, HKG, NRT were the strongest before COVID. But the demand in very distributed.

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  33. Anonymous10:12

    Anyone remember SouthEast Airlines that was supposed to launch in Slovenia a year or two ago?

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    1. Anonymous18:27

      Still they have website

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  34. Anonymous10:12

    Good luck but they will need it.

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  35. Anonymous10:13

    I wouldn’t like to be “Nostradamus” but somehow it seems to me that I already know the fate of this company

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  36. Anonymous10:14

    Pragusa is probably more credible than this

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  37. Anonymous10:15

    I’m not going to take this seriously

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  38. Anonymous10:15

    Steven Cheung is the CEO so we all know who to blame when this fails

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  39. Anonymous10:15

    Hilarious

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  40. Anonymous10:18

    https://www.seaplanehk.com/ This is their original company, so they seemingly are operating already in China. Will be interesting to see if they go ahead with it as seemingly the funding is there

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    1. Anonymous10:20

      They bought Sloveniaair.com domain which was selling for a few thousand euros, so there's that :D

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  41. Anonymous10:20

    Don't write it off so quickly.

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  42. Anonymous10:23

    A Joint Venture of ANISOS, Inc., a British Virgin Island registered company and XY Group, a publicly listed company in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.


    Now this is interesting.

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  43. Anonymous10:24

    Well the livery is nice
    https://ibb.co/VSjQFpc

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  44. Anonymous10:30

    I love how admin is adding stuff bit by bit on the post, as no one has a clue what this actually is and we are just exploring about how big of a scam this possibly is

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  45. All of the posters speak about this as a scam. And highly likely it is scam. But people tend to forget that markets of Croatia and Slovenia combined are strong with demand on the Far East, Australia, and North America markets, and it's not impossible they would go after it, especially because there is no interest to do something like that in OU, which would be the most logical move. So, I believe Slovenia Air, if not scam only, might take some pax from and to Croatia, the same Air Serbia already did.

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    1. Anonymous10:58

      Due piccoli borghi smeared over three continents. Not real. Ljubljana is just small hamlet in these countries.

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    2. Anonymous11:22

      Croatia and Slovenia should first focus on having year-round flights to all key European airports. Flights to the Far East can come soon after that.

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    3. Anonymous11:31

      They have Vrankfurt und Minken and flights to seaside.

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    4. @11.22
      Key European airports are : London Heathrow, Amsterdam, Paris CDG, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Madrid, Rome FCO, Athens and Istanbul. And at least Croatia, and to some extent Slovenia as well, do have year-round flights to all those Key airports. Please don't start with Berlin, Prague and Stockholm story, because those are not Key european airports (which is not excuse for missing links). Anyhow, hundreds of thousands of visitors to Croatia and Slovenia every year from Far East and Australia and North America, are the fact and reality, and have absolutely nothing to do with missing Berlin or Stockholm flights, no matter how bad you feel about it

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    5. Anonymous11:50

      Warsaw (WAW) is a key airport.

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  46. Anonymous10:45

    Oh well, same story like MBX with the Chinese SHS Aviation. Another wannabe, failure in Slovene aviation:

    https://www.exyuaviation.com/2019/01/shs-terminates-maribor-airport.html

    Those guys from the Ministry of Infrastructure are either high, need to show they are doing some work or absolutely and utterly incompetent. Unbelievable that this comes from the advanced and most developed ex-Yu or Balkan, if you please, country.

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    1. Anonymous11:21

      Why not. Explicitly says there is no public money involved. But they need a government approval to use word Slovenia in a brand name.

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  47. Anonymous10:48

    Talking about Maribor and new airlines. What's happening to Camex Adria?

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    1. Anonymous11:23

      They are waiting for some kind of approval then they will start flights. The airplane is currently stationed in Maribor

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  48. Anonymous11:05

    Delulu is the solulu

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  49. Anonymous11:13

    Simply 'Nonsense Air'.

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  50. Anonymous11:20

    Oh, that’s made my day. So, no public money, that’s great! But they need a governmental approval to use word Slovenia as a trade mark or brand name.

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  51. Anonymous11:22

    Shs Maribor, Southeast Slovenia and Pragusa one type of thing. There is no way it is going to happen

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  52. Anonymous12:08

    Looks like Vovan and Lexus have pranked the Slovenian government

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  53. Anonymous12:28

    Crytpo backed metaverse air transport. I wonder how can anything go wrong here :P

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    1. notLufthansa12:33

      this is actually the best description of it :)

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  54. Anonymous13:02

    Isuse!😱 dokle više

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  55. Anonymous13:09

    If you go on their page (someone copied the link up in the comments) and scroll down the page u can avtually find all the destinations they want to serve with A321Neo-LR from Ljubljana and from Maribor like 4 destinations with A330-9Neo….if you just forget everything else and imagine how much money would they need to have a fleet to serve all this destinations they want to…hillarious

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    1. Anonymous15:13

      In this case I suppose knowing the business could be a bigger problem than the money.

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    2. Anonymous15:47

      I mean if that is the problem then they only need to find people who know how to handle this...and not the ex-Adria CEO's and stuff like that

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  56. Slav.Man17:03

    As long as they dont use public money in any way then its okay to dream and try. i hope its successuful for them. and it would be good for Slovenia.

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  57. Anonymous17:08

    How many airlines do we have in Slovenia?
    Amelia International and their subsidiary in Africa - Equaflight.
    Elit'Avia( with AOC in Malta and San Marino, US office)+ Ojet singapore based subsidiary ( interesting story haha 😄 )
    Solin Air
    Lipican Aer
    Camex Adria Airlines
    Thalair
    Alpavia
    More?

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    1. Anonymous17:32

      How many operate from Ljubljana? Or Slovenia?


      Big fat zero

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    2. Anonymous18:01

      Exactly. That's what I meant too.

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    3. Anonymous18:08

      There is also an An26 operator. I'm not talking about the ones in MBX. the aircraft are located at the Ukrainian operator Eleron. It is a lessor entirely.

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  58. Anonymous17:41

    "They have Vrankfurt und Minken and flights to seaside. "
    Ha-ha-ha, Anonymous 11:31, you're killing us bro/ sis!!

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    1. Anonymous18:02

      He is not well, nothing new.

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  59. Anonymous18:34

    Last, who is the owner and where is it registered? Did we come up with any conclusions?

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  60. Anonymous18:37

    I think there was another airline Dunair doo ? What happened to her? Many airlines, but none with success in LJU or MBX.

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  61. Anonymous18:43

    Here's something from me for a good evening. History also remembers such things:
    https://www.exyuaviation.com/2011/10/golden-air-takes-off-from-maribor.html?m=1

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  62. Anonymous19:19

    Do you remember Styrian Spirit that looked quite serious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrian_Spirit

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  63. Anonymous19:37

    This is the most I've laughed from an article on this site so far, kakva dobra fora xD

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  64. Anonymous20:15

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMELIA??? Dear government, stop screwing with our nerves, jobs and lives. Adria was enough.

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  65. Anonymous20:35

    Svinja sanja kokuruz... A kokuruza nema... 😂

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  66. Anonymous17:25

    Sounds like PRAGUSA.ONE.
    Would be time for a PRAGUSA trip report!
    :-)

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