Prague Highly managed managers and politicians work on the project of joint European airlines. The idea resonated 16 years ago, when the merger of Air France and the Dutch KLM created the European image. The answer was to create a powerful game that, with the support of the Visegrad countries (V4), can withstand competitors. The vision did not materialize then, but according to information from the Lidovky.cz server, it is back in the world, mainly due to the overwhelming impact of the covid epidemic.
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The Polish airline LOT would play a central role in the project, and more than half of it would be one of the foundations. The interest is logically about angam tradin domc characters SA.
Prague as a growing node
According to the source of the Lidovky.cz server, the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi (YES) and the Minister of Transport Karel Havlek (for YES) are acquainted. fovi sttn společnosti Letit Praha Vclavu ehoovi visize. We would clearly welcome such an initiative. In Prague, a diversion node could be formed by single lines ammonia pestup, said LN.
In Ruzyně, long-term efforts to make long-term efforts, connect with them to develop and fly. Such an offer is in full swing: airlines, including Czech Smartwings (with SA subsidiaries), are running. European governments have sent carriers 25 billion euros to close lines and put a lot of money off.
Strong Visegrad airlines may stop the expansion of Irish Ryanair, which has avoided a dry market release after a European strategy. And a grouping together could economically kill a pandemic. Such airlines would be stronger, more stable and less prone to fluctuations within one market in it.
LOT, tk vha from Poland
The cornerstone of Central European Airlines could be the Polish LOT, a state-owned company and by far the strongest game in the region. For a better idea: dr about a hundred planes (about half as much as Smartwings), last year it transported ten million pasars to customs and normally takes 350 years a day.
But even this strong company was marked by the coronation crisis. The representative does not exclude her cooperation in the framework of the V4 airline project or in the Czech Republic at Vlav Havel’s Letiti. And they admitted that the consequences of the current situation, the aviation industry went a long way. Therefore, from the point of view of responsible air carriers, including LOT, it is necessary to perform a detailed analysis in order to get the outlines of future developments. We will inform about it as soon as a specific business decision is made, said Polish Airlines Krzysztof Moczulski.
weights according to the source of LN may mean that in the joint project LOT it would hold more than half of the remaining shares could fall to the Czech, Slovak and Hungarian governments. It’s logical: Hungarian, the original Malv airline, went bankrupt eight years ago. Slovak Airlines even broke up in the sky in 2007. And the Czech company Smartwings, together with its SA subsidiary, has only 55 aircraft for me and is fighting for a peit due to the coronary crisis. In addition, it is fully a private holding company. Now his management will decide whether the Smartwings will receive a protection loan from the banks, and I will issue a deposit for it. He has to lay off several hundred employees and solve the non-functioning combination of Czech and Czech shares, which paralyzes the company to some extent.
On the other hand, for domestic clients, connecting the V4 airline project with an Czech carrier could play an important role. If the SA logo could be involved in the project, it would be very good from our point of view. It has a century-old history and especially a very good sound at the Entrance. This could significantly help the model, says the chairman of the board of Letit Praha Vclav eho.
It is also important to note that the project is currently moving within the scales. It has no budget, clear participation and clear time limits. However, it is certain that the political role towards its realization will play a big role, it would be especially important at the intergovernmental level.
Mainly five crises
But even if the vision again falls into oblivion, there could be at least a more pronounced anguish of Polish airlines on Russian runways and terminals. It is true that they could wall their mushrooms there, ie a basic and varied knot.
Regardless of the mylence of V4 airlines, we started negotiating with LOT to spread its activities to Prague, in addition to Poland and Budapest. We have been conducting this one for a long time, especially with regard to its ability to open debt lines, he added.
It is certain that the aviation industry received a thin spring in the spring of this year, which is comparable to the previous ones. And this branch had to face the consequences of the terrorist flows of 11 of 2001, the situation after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajkull in April 2010, which for six days completely emptied the airspace over Europe. This crisis is not comparable to the grounded Boeing 737 MAX, which, due to repeated accidents, sent air lines to the ground last April and did not allow them to return to heaven. The effects of the coronavirus epidemic are far-reaching and insight is very uncertain.
This situation leads to the idea of creating economically strong interconnected airlines. In our region, the idea of connecting airlines in the vicinity of the V4 country appears, which can create a significant game in the Central European market, to Petr Kov from the consulting company EY, who was involved in the restructuring of Smartwings.
According to him, V4 airlines could somewhat imitate the mentioned French and Dutch companies. It would probably be a number of interconnected chapters, such as the first Air France / KLM model. This project could compete with them as well. After all, 16 years ago, this idea first appeared due to a changing alliance.
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