JAT Airways : JU : JAT

La compagnie serbe JAT aurait décidé de retourner chez Aercap son Boeing 737-400 pour louer deux 737-700

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Serbia’s Jat Airways has decided to lease 2 Boeing B737-700 aircraft, which will enter its fleet during September 2009.[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]

Le serbe JAT cloue ses avions au sol après l'arrêt de la maintenance : ardoise !

D'Airwise ( Reuters )

Serbian flag carrier JAT grounded its fleet on Wednesday after maintenance staff refused to work on its aircraft because of the airline's overdue debts, a spokeswoman said.

"We stopped our flights as of this morning due to a strike of JAT Tehnika mechanics who sign off on planes before they take off," said Mirjana Dragovic.

"We are negotiating and expect to find a solution late in the afternoon," the spokeswoman said. "Our debt to JAT Tehnika is USD$1.5 million and we never disputed that. We are a month behind in paying it."

Once part of state flag carrier JAT, JAT Tehnika employs more than 900 people and reported a profit of over EUR30,000 euros in 2007 after which it was advertised, unsuccessfully, for sale.

Government attempts to sell both JAT Tehnika and JAT airline have failed due to lack of interest.

Dragovic said JAT had asked the government to approve a new business plan that would allow it to have its own maintenance unit. "In the past week we have seen it was vital for JAT to run its own maintenance unit and we expect the government to approve that plan in the coming weeks."

Once Yugoslavia's national airline with a home market of more than 20 million people, JAT was hard hit by sanctions imposed on Serbia for its role in the 1990s wars.

It last bought new planes in the early 1990s and its entire fleet was grounded internationally for most of that decade.

The company now has EUR209 million (USD$304.5 million) of debt but its assets, a fleet of mainly Boeing 737 planes plus real estate, are estimated by analysts to be worth USD$150 million.

After Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa entered the Balkan market, JAT saw its market share slip to 45 percent of all traffic through the capital Belgrade last year from around 60 percent in 2002.

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Voici la flotte de JAT Serbia, telle que sur Planespotters, merci

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Accord trouvé avec JAT Technika ? Les vols ont repris :

JAT Airways resumed flying Friday after reaching an agreement with JAT Tehnika to begin paying debt it owes to the MRO company today. JAT Tehnika's mechanics, which service JAT Airways aircraft, stopped working for two days last week to protest the airline's failure to pay the maintenance company in a timely fashion, forcing the Serbian carrier to ground its fleet temporarily [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
JAT Airways has admitted that it owes JAT Tehnika about $1.5 million and is a month behind in making payments. JAT
Tehnika said Friday that the airline promised to begin making partial payments by today.

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JAT va devoir restituer des B737-300 et -400, leur leasing arrivant à expiration.

Il y a foule d'appareils de seconde main, toujours en leasing, disponibles

Serbian national carrier Jat Airways will soon be without two aircraft from its current fleet, a Boeing 737-300 and Boeing 737-400, as their lease expires at the beginning of next year.


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Discussions avancées entre THY et JAT

Airline merger talks between THY, Serbia’s Jat intensify

The governments of Serbia and Turkey have pledged to speed up talks that could result in indebted Serbian flag carrier Jat Airways merging with Turkish Airlines.
During a news conference, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, “We are ready for steps that will make that cooperation possible. I am promising to do my best [to provide] the people of Serbia with links to every corner of the world through our two companies.”
THY CEO Temel Kotil told ATW in May that he was in talks with Jat about a possible merger ([Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]). In March, Serbia announced it would split Jat into two separate companies. Reuters reported that one would assume the debt and the other the profitable assets.
Jat announced a €16.5 million ($21.97 million) loss for 2009 and said it planned to borrow €51.5 million to renew its aging fleet and prepare for a potential partnership with THY. It operates a fleet of 15 aircraft comprising 737-300s, 737-400s and ATR 72-200s.

Fusion, fusion... compte tenu de la différence de taille, je dis plutôt... rachat. Non ?
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Livrée sobre pour cette compagnie qui serait la plus ancienne compagnie sur notre planète (créée en 1927) ...