REGIONAL COOPERATION AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

CEFTA-2006 AND ANHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF THE REGION - SOME SECTORAL ASPECTS
At the moment the level of air transport connections within the region is shown bellow.
Table 7: Destinations and frequencies within region - 2008
Airline
No. of
routes
SEE
routes
Adria Airways 27 6
Destinations / Weekly frequency
Ljubljana - SJJ 7x; TGD 3x; TIA
7x; SKP 11x; OTP 4x; PRN 14x
Zagreb - SJJ 14x; SKP 7x; TDG
3x; PRN 4x
SEE
freq.
Croatia Airlines 36 4
28
Bulgaria Air -
Hemus
34 3 Sofia - TIA 2x; SKP 2x; OTP 5x 9
Air Moldova 16 1 Chisinau - OTP 5x 5
Albanian Airlines 4 1 Tirana - SKP 3x 3
Belle Air 19 1 Tirana - PRN 12x 12
BH Airlines 6 1 Sarajevo - SKP 3x 3
Macedonian
Airlines
6 0 - 0
Tarom 38 2 Bucharest - SOF 11x; KIV 4x 15
Carpatair 34 1 Timisoara - KIV 6x;
Montenegro
Podgorica - BEG 21x; LJU 2x;
14 3
Airlines
Tivat - BEG 14x
37
JAT 33 4
Belgrade - SKP 18x; LJU 7x;
TGD 33x; TIV 31x
89
Total 267 27 247
Source: According to various sources, prepared by authors
According to the above data only 10.1% of existing routes are oriented to the area of
Southeast Europe (primary airports connections only). Mainly existing routes connect
the above mentioned area with the central, western and northern Europe. Average weekly
frequency on half of the Southeast Europe routes (13/27) is less than one daily flight.
Taking into account the long term schedule planning 4 (fleet diversity, man power planning,
protecting hubs, adding or changing hubs and adequate facilities at airports) and market
evaluations 5 (frequency and time of service, adding new and dropping existing markets,
pricing policy, competitor behavior, code sharing agreements and alliances) (Bazargan, M.
2004:32) there is necessity for creating a new network model to increase air connectivity
within the region.
List of existing routes indicates the possibility to establish new routes on the following
city pairs which would be conducted in phases:
a) First phase (by the end of year 2010) - priority
o Evaluation of existing routes and city pairs;
46
4 +60 months
5
12-36 months
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