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.
Hahahahahah, one more Maribor SHS fake story!
ReplyDeleteThis 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
DeleteLol when you google "Dragon Fly Venture Holding", the only hits that show up are on this website.
DeleteThat's something but hey, if public funding is not in the picture I'm all for it
ReplyDeleteYeah, okay
ReplyDeleteSeems legit
ReplyDeleteGovernment gave them legitimacy by meeting with them.
DeleteNot realistic at all, only dreams of some former Adria guys.
ReplyDeleteSo they are behind this company?
DeleteYes
DeleteThe former employees maybe, not the VC that took over Adria
DeleteTrue. Some time ago they were addressing former Adria staff to join.
DeleteAny links?
DeleteWhat?!?
ReplyDeleteI see no issue. It says they are not after state funds.
ReplyDeletePragusa TWO :p
ReplyDeleteEven better than that start-up for Dubrovnik - US flights
ReplyDeleteStill waiting on Pragusa
DeleteConsidering the government bought SHS's and 4K Invest's story, I would not be surprised they would accept this as plausible.
ReplyDeleteNot 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.
DeleteAt lest they have a nice webpage :-)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dragonflyx.co/
MBX as a major European hub. Here we go again...
DeleteYes, very nice website with amazing English:
Delete"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....
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 :)
Deletehttps://www.seaplanehk.com/dragonflyx
DeleteOmg judging by their website they actually have the funding to do it..
ReplyDeleteThey claim they have it. No proof so far.
DeleteBut who is behind them?
DeleteSlovenia Air...
ReplyDeleteNothing will come of this.
ReplyDeleteThey also have a destination map already, this suggests the one of the biggest LOLs of all time.
ReplyDeleteIt's always great news when Chinese "investors" arrive.
ReplyDeleteAir India story all over again.
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dragonflyx.co/sloveniaair
ReplyDeleteThank 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.
DeleteBritish Virgin Island....red alert....typical place for money laundering.....
Deletehttps://www.seaplanehk.com/dragonflyx
DeleteHad to check the calendar. It doesn't say 1 April.
ReplyDeleteNice that they will include Maribor :D
ReplyDeleteVery kind of them lol
DeleteSomeone will laundry money from EU fonds
ReplyDeleteThis is what Slovenian aviation has come to.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately
DeleteThis sounds like a good news for April the 1st.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait haha.
ReplyDeleteAny timeline?
ReplyDeleteScheduled to launch between now and never.
DeleteVery good aircraft this C172XLR
DeleteSo what aircraft would they use to flights to Asia?
ReplyDeleteC172XLR
DeleteHahaha check their web page. It's has all the buzzwords like a crpto scam.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who falls for this is an idiot.
What I don't understand is why the government even met up with them.
DeleteA chance to drink a coffee while pretending to work :)
DeleteThis is so funny like for real
ReplyDeleteHave there ever been flights between Ljubljana and Far East Asia?
ReplyDeleteNo
Deletewerent there charters between ljubljana and tokio?
DeleteEmbarrassing for all involved.
ReplyDeleteOn a serious note, to where is there most traffic from LJU in the Far East? Any data?
ReplyDeleteTokyo actually
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/p/ljubljana-airports-top-asian-markets.html
DeleteBKK, PVG, PEK, ICN, DEL, HKG, NRT were the strongest before COVID. But the demand in very distributed.
DeleteAnyone remember SouthEast Airlines that was supposed to launch in Slovenia a year or two ago?
ReplyDeleteStill they have website
DeleteGood luck but they will need it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t like to be “Nostradamus” but somehow it seems to me that I already know the fate of this company
ReplyDeletePragusa is probably more credible than this
ReplyDeleteI’m not going to take this seriously
ReplyDeleteWise
DeleteSteven Cheung is the CEO so we all know who to blame when this fails
ReplyDeleteHilarious
ReplyDeletehttps://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
ReplyDeleteThey bought Sloveniaair.com domain which was selling for a few thousand euros, so there's that :D
DeleteDon't write it off so quickly.
ReplyDeleteA Joint Venture of ANISOS, Inc., a British Virgin Island registered company and XY Group, a publicly listed company in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
ReplyDeleteNow this is interesting.
Well the livery is nice
ReplyDeletehttps://ibb.co/VSjQFpc
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
ReplyDeleteAll 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.
ReplyDeleteDue piccoli borghi smeared over three continents. Not real. Ljubljana is just small hamlet in these countries.
DeleteCroatia 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.
DeleteThey have Vrankfurt und Minken and flights to seaside.
Delete@11.22
DeleteKey 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
Warsaw (WAW) is a key airport.
DeleteOh well, same story like MBX with the Chinese SHS Aviation. Another wannabe, failure in Slovene aviation:
ReplyDeletehttps://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.
Why not. Explicitly says there is no public money involved. But they need a government approval to use word Slovenia in a brand name.
DeleteTalking about Maribor and new airlines. What's happening to Camex Adria?
ReplyDeleteThey are waiting for some kind of approval then they will start flights. The airplane is currently stationed in Maribor
DeleteDelulu is the solulu
ReplyDeleteSimply 'Nonsense Air'.
ReplyDeleteOh, 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.
ReplyDeleteShs Maribor, Southeast Slovenia and Pragusa one type of thing. There is no way it is going to happen
ReplyDeleteLooks like Vovan and Lexus have pranked the Slovenian government
ReplyDeleteCrytpo backed metaverse air transport. I wonder how can anything go wrong here :P
ReplyDeletethis is actually the best description of it :)
DeleteIsuse!😱 dokle više
ReplyDeleteIf 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
ReplyDeleteIn this case I suppose knowing the business could be a bigger problem than the money.
DeleteI 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
DeleteAs 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.
ReplyDeleteHow many airlines do we have in Slovenia?
ReplyDeleteAmelia 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?
How many operate from Ljubljana? Or Slovenia?
DeleteBig fat zero
Exactly. That's what I meant too.
DeleteThere 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.
Delete"They have Vrankfurt und Minken and flights to seaside. "
ReplyDeleteHa-ha-ha, Anonymous 11:31, you're killing us bro/ sis!!
He is not well, nothing new.
DeleteLast, who is the owner and where is it registered? Did we come up with any conclusions?
ReplyDeleteI think there was another airline Dunair doo ? What happened to her? Many airlines, but none with success in LJU or MBX.
ReplyDeleteHere's something from me for a good evening. History also remembers such things:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2011/10/golden-air-takes-off-from-maribor.html?m=1
Do you remember Styrian Spirit that looked quite serious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrian_Spirit
ReplyDelete+10000
DeleteThis is the most I've laughed from an article on this site so far, kakva dobra fora xD
ReplyDeleteWHAT IS WRONG WITH AMELIA??? Dear government, stop screwing with our nerves, jobs and lives. Adria was enough.
ReplyDeleteSvinja sanja kokuruz... A kokuruza nema... 😂
ReplyDeleteSounds like PRAGUSA.ONE.
ReplyDeleteWould be time for a PRAGUSA trip report!
:-)