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Leisure carrier TUI Airways is discontinuing its seasonal winter operations between London Gatwick Airport and Sarajevo. The weekly service was maintained between January and March but will not be restored this winter. The carrier deployed its Boeing 737-800 on the route. Sarajevo Airport continues to be linked to London on a year-round basis through Ryanair’s flights to Stansted and Wizz Air’s service to Luton.
Too much competition and no added subsidies
ReplyDeletetoo little demand, not too much competition
ReplyDeleteOther airlines had subsidies and they didn't, unfortunate but that's how it is
Delete@13.41 an @13.53 you talk rubbish as usually when anything relating to Sarajevo is published here. TUI flights were actually quite full , so much that they returned for the second year that's how content they were with the number of the passangers.
DeleteIt is lack of snow last winter that did it for them, they were bringing quite few package holiday tourists to Jahorina skiing school, but with barely any snow there were cancellations, because there is barely anything else for them on offer .
Their costs were high due to constant diversions due to fog.
ReplyDeleteIn todays neoliberal caoitalism environment, airlines tend to stop flights, even if a flight is slightly profitable, cause another route might be more profitable, so they add capacities on other segments. Or they have fleet issues and can not fly all the planned schedule. To stop or reduce a route can have several reasons.
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DeleteReally? Neoliberal capitalism? What should they do? Continue flying if the route is not as profitable as they expected? Let’s say that you are an owner of 5 shops and one of them is not generating profit because of low number of customers. Would you keep it open and cover losses? I highly doubt it.
TUI was apparently scheduling this route for the skiing season and let’s be honest, Bosnia is not a number one skiing destination. They could utilise this plane to fly people from the UK to Slovakia for example, where much better ski resorts can be found.
Get over it guys, airlines come and leave airports.
It's not today, it's always. If you have to make a choice between several options, you will always be going for the best one. Always.
DeleteWhy would TUI fly to Bosnia with practically 0 tourism infrastructure for skiing? Also not in the EU so not covered by all travel insurance, mobile operators roaming, no compensation for delayed flights, no legal protection of consumer rights like in EU etc.
DeleteEuropean travel insurance covers Bosnia. There is plenty of Tourist infrastructure. The truth is Brexit is slowly destroying the British economy along with a socialist government taxing everything British citizens are becoming poorer by the day!
DeleteWell it is completely operational system if we speak of private airlines. To level this we have government owned airlines. So neoliberal frame isn't kinda related to TUI. Actually it is not related at all to a leisure focused airline. If we want to frame fucked up neoliberal airlines policy lets talk more about shrinking baggage policies on govenment based airlines with crazy base fares (not related to JU, on most routes they are ok, except Russia).
DeleteNeoliberalism has led the world into the chaos we are experiencing today. It is a system that subordinates everything to profit and is solely responsible for maximum profit. It even goes so far as to wage wars, because wars are a blessing for 0.5% of the population, while the remaining 99.5% suffer as a result. I am a capitalist and I like capitalism, I have been living under capitalism for 6 decades, but please capitalism with responsibility. There is more than just responsibility for profit. Much more responsibility!
DeleteBosnia has solid skiing infrastructure, sure it ain't Austria or France but good resorts like Jahorina are on the same level as smaller resorts there. Flights departing from EU or operated by an EU airline to EU are covered by the compensation law, not sure how that is relevant as neither UK nor Bosnia are in EU.
DeleteIt is something new that Slovakia has better ski resorts.
ReplyDeletePrvi glas :D
DeleteShould come to LJU, Kranjska Gora and Krvavec are fine
ReplyDeleteEasyjet exists during winter, they'll increase frequencies eventually as well
DeleteI like to ski where the snow cover is good. I'd choose Slovakia.
ReplyDeleteThis was an extremely stupid idea in the first place. Prices on Jahorina and Bjelašnica are more expensive than the Dolomites. With such a bad infrastructure at those prices, Brirs would try it once but would never come back.
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