>Ms Bratušek’s party is advocating for the launch of a new national carrier – Air Slovenia.
Should have called it Sloveniair
National carriers are a waste of money. Leave it to the private market, this way you have no obligation to bail them out when they eventually fail.
And a monorail!
Seriously, stay away. You don’t want it, get an advertising budget instead.
While I have my doubts about a new Slovenian air carrier (let’s be honest: not all countries can sustain commercially viable national airlines within the single European air space), Slovenia’s lack of air connectivity always shocked me. Ljubljana airport has very few passengers. IIRC only Slovakia had fewer passengers per capita, but in their case the proximity of Vienna airport is an explanation. Slovenia has no comparatively large airport close to its borders. Venice and Vienna are both 150 km+ from most Slovenian localities.
>“The biggest problem with tourism is our airport. There is an insufficient number of flights”, Mr Janković noted.
I am thinking that it might be cheaper to get an existing airline to run more flights to your airport than to start a new airline.
I am also wondering about this assertion in the first place, though, assuming that one is to take it at face value. Are there many people who think “I want to see Lake Bled”, but then don’t go because the flights aren’t frequent enough? I mean, normally if the demand exists, I’d think that airlines would put flights in place to meet it.
I’d think that it might be more cost-effective to spend money promoting things in Slovenia or to spend money increasing the appeal of tourist attractions than to spend it on subsidizing an increased frequency of flights to them.
If you want TAP, I’m sure we’ll happily give it to you.
IMO we should band together with exYU countries to make a joint carier. We ycoult call it Južni Aviacijski Transporter or JAT for short.
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>Ms Bratušek’s party is advocating for the launch of a new national carrier – Air Slovenia.
Should have called it Sloveniair
National carriers are a waste of money. Leave it to the private market, this way you have no obligation to bail them out when they eventually fail.
And a monorail!
Seriously, stay away. You don’t want it, get an advertising budget instead.
While I have my doubts about a new Slovenian air carrier (let’s be honest: not all countries can sustain commercially viable national airlines within the single European air space), Slovenia’s lack of air connectivity always shocked me. Ljubljana airport has very few passengers. IIRC only Slovakia had fewer passengers per capita, but in their case the proximity of Vienna airport is an explanation. Slovenia has no comparatively large airport close to its borders. Venice and Vienna are both 150 km+ from most Slovenian localities.
>“The biggest problem with tourism is our airport. There is an insufficient number of flights”, Mr Janković noted.
I am thinking that it might be cheaper to get an existing airline to run more flights to your airport than to start a new airline.
I am also wondering about this assertion in the first place, though, assuming that one is to take it at face value. Are there many people who think “I want to see Lake Bled”, but then don’t go because the flights aren’t frequent enough? I mean, normally if the demand exists, I’d think that airlines would put flights in place to meet it.
I’d think that it might be more cost-effective to spend money promoting things in Slovenia or to spend money increasing the appeal of tourist attractions than to spend it on subsidizing an increased frequency of flights to them.
If you want TAP, I’m sure we’ll happily give it to you.
IMO we should band together with exYU countries to make a joint carier. We ycoult call it Južni Aviacijski Transporter or JAT for short.