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Bulgaria Air’s CEO, Hristo Todorov, has held talks with his counterpart at Air Serbia Jiri Marek. According to Mr Todorov, the two discussed the expansion of the existing ACMI arrangement between the two airlines. Under the deal, Bulgaria Air wet-leases two of its 108-seat Embraer E190 aircraft to the Serbian flag carrier. A wet-lease involves providing the aircraft, entire crew, maintenance and insurance on the aircraft. “We are expanding our ACMI cooperation with Air Serbia for the E190 fleet”, Mr Todorov said without going into further detail. Apart from the two E190s operating for Air Serbia, the Bulgarian carrier has a further two E190s. The existing wet-lease arrangement came into effect this April.
4 E190s coming to JU in NS25!
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DeleteSorry ! Where did you read that Air Serbia gonna lease all 4 E-190 from Bulgaria air ? Unless you mean the 2 dry leased E-195 and the 2 E-190 wet leased from Bulgaria air !
Delete^ They have no dry leased E195s from Bulgaria Air. They have 2 wet leased E190s. Bulgaria Air has another 2 E190s in its fleet which will probably be wet leased to Air Serbia next year. So total of 4 Bulgaria Air wet leased E190s.
DeleteExactly Anon 11:28
DeleteBulgaria Air is most likely going to wet-lease its whole E190 fleet (4 aicraft) to JU, so two more comparing to this NS24.
Additionally, JU is going to have its own dry-leased E195s (2 aircraft).
Totally - 6 Embraer aircraft in JU in NS25.
Anon 11:48 once again where did you read that JU will wet lease the remaining E-190 from Bulgaria air ?? They just said they will extend the leasing of those 2 that allready have .
DeleteIt says they are expanding it
Delete“We are expanding our ACMI cooperation"
They said "expand cooperation" which usually means wet-lease more aircraft.
DeleteJU should buy all those planes
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DeleteBut their long term strategy is to have E-Jets with 120 seats.
DeleteBulgaria Air E190 has 108 seats. Just 10 less than JU's E195.
DeleteBulgaria = Marathon 2.0. Nice. So we should have 2x JU E195 and 4x Bulgaria E190 next year?
ReplyDeleteBulgaria Air is thousands miles away from Marathon. Bulgaria Air is national carrier of an EU country and has very well-trained pilots in the company for years.
DeleteYes - 2x E195 and 4x E190.
Marathon is an EU country carrier too and they had instructor as a captain. Just saying, not arguing.
DeleteI have flown with Bulgaria Air for Airserbia between Milan and Belgrade and the same route with Marathon. I can say that there is not difference I experience. Even I would say than Marathon aircraft was in better shape than Bulgrarian one…
DeleteYes and they speak at least a sout-slavic language - better understandable for passangers that don’t speak english (cf. marathon)
DeleteAre they speaking Bulgarian to the passengers?
DeleteBeing Bulgarians, they might have even learned Serbian well by now, Jesus, what comments here. "Same experience as with Marathon"... Really, dude? It was not flying backwards, was it?
DeleteYes, Marathon is a EU carrier also, but small carrier which had to expand quickly because of JU and to find many pilots which is not easy. It is questionable where did they find pilots and how trained they were.
DeleteBulgaria Air has very well trained pilots in company for years.
JU should employ them, because they have no future in BulgarianAir. They will retire whole Efleet
DeleteBulgaria Air's business model is such an enigma to me :)
ReplyDeleteIt is not. They have clarified that E190s will go to ACMI upon receiving A220s. According to some media they will retire E190 fleet by the end of 2025, but we will see about that.
DeleteFB has only a few flights in winter, most of them domestic to Varna. They could lease all of them planes. Pure Hristo's management!
DeleteBG air it's a one man show. I believe mr. Kamenov has so much money that he doesn't care much whether BG air is profitable
Delete11:37 It is enigma not only to you! As a Bulgarian, I would say that in Bulgaria, Bg air is known to be more of a money laundering company of some people from Varna. Bg air has barely any flights from Sofia during winter, even their very important pratner-AF/KLM cancelled their codeshare agreement. They don’t have any ambition to grow like air serbia. At SOF, Wizz and FR, even LH beats them. Bulgarians fly mostly wizz and fr(unfortunately less wizz even, fr beats wizz at sof) and for business/continental flights mainly LH. Where is Bg air left? However, when it comes to pilot training, pilots are exceptional. SOF flight training is a great school, and currently, A220 type rating is done at LH. So even though the airline sucks like management, when it comes to training, all of FB pilots are very good.
DeleteHow do you launder money in aviation? Where and how huge amount of cash can enter the aviation company to be laundered?
DeleteI can’t tell you, as far as I know, it has something to do with the mafia in bulgaria which was formed after the fall of the communism. TIM is the group, they have hotels on the Black sea coast above Varna. They also own Bg air, 40% of the concessions at Varna&Burgas airports, some stake at Lufthansa Technik in Sofia. Unlike other mafias in Bg, you would barely hear about them. Honestly, I haven’t read about them a lot, its just what I’ve heard in the aviation community in Bg.
DeletePlease do not bother yourself trying to find out what exactly the business model of Bulgaria Air is. Thanks to the shareholders and the God as well, the airline exists and with A220 maybe will be more attractive. So many other around disappeared...
DeleteDo JU need these planes? Will they get rid of some other metal, or are these a fresh addition for new flights?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/09/air-serbia-adds-over-100-additional.html
DeleteI skipped this obviously... Sounds like a good plan.
DeleteI was actually hoping Air Serbia would get dry leased planes with its own crew.
ReplyDeleteThey said something like that in March if I remember correctly. Instead of 4-5 mentioned earlier, they are not talking about more than 2 dry leased Embraers.
Delete^ they didn't say that all. No need to make things up.
DeleteThey will add more dry leased planes but it will be a gradual introduction. Lack of pilots on this type in Serbia is an issue.
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/08/air-serbia-sees-potential-in-up-to.html
True, Air Serbia was talking about up to 15 Embraers.
DeleteIf Air Serbia can't train enough pilots to introduce more than two Embraers per year, it will take them seven more years to reach that goal.
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