European national airliners, do they have a future?
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SUMMARY: The good airline news out of Europe is that TAP Portugal is finally 61% privatized and in good hands for the future while the Irish Government gives the go ahead for IAG’s buyout of Aer Lingus. The bad news is that Lithuania’s small national airline, Air Lituanica becomes the 5th European airline this year to shutdown (27 in 2014), while Croatian Airlines and Adria Airways nervously wait for their privatization as it is “swim or sink” time for them and others like LOT, TAROM, Estonian Air, Czech Airlines, AirBaltic, etc. as they have all taken or will take their last “one time” EU allowed state aid packages, and from now on for most, if they run out of money, they have NO choice but to file for bankruptcy. The low cost carriers (LCC) in Europe continue to grow at a fast pace and challenge the existence of national carriers as incumbents cannot muster any significant competitive response against the LCC onslaught in Europe. Meanwhile, fully government owned AirBaltic of Latvia becomes the launch customer for Bombardier’s CS300 (20 on order, 13 + 7 options), the $US 1.44 billion aircraft cost and launch customer designation is not realistic from an airline based in Latvia that lost $US 220 million since 2010, bailed out by the Government in 2011 and has made only $US 11 million in net profit in the past 2 years on revenues of $US 688 million (a slim 1.6% net profit margin), it is a barely a financially viable carrier without the new and expensive CS300’s. The airline has 24 aircraft today (B737-300/500, Q400’s) making it the 36th largest airline in Europe (following ‘big’ names like Onur Air and Norwind Airlines ?) is this a joke ? Bombardier has NO “better” customer for the launch of the CS300 ? the quality of its current customer order book is sad indeed after Lufthansa and Korean. It reminds me of the Sukhoi SSJ-100 tragic launch customer Armavia (of Armenia), which was an absolute PR and marketing disaster, as it accepted the 1st aircraft, could not finance the 2nd aircraft, and then went bust. Anyway, the plight of the small/medium government owned and private airlines in Europe continues, what is their future ? or is there one ? Air Serbia pulls off an incredible corporate turnaround in 1 year under its “white knight” equity partnership with Etihad Airways, but other airlines may not be so lucky, time to look at new business models for survival before the wave of European bankruptcies begins as surely 50 European countries cannot all have a national airline ! | AVIATION DOCTOR - insights beyond the industry headlines
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SUMMARY: The good airline news out of Europe is that TAP Portugal is finally 61% privatized and in good hands for the future while the Irish Government gives the go ahead for IAG’s buyout of Aer Lingus. The bad news is that Lithuania’s small national airline, Air Lituanica becomes the 5th European airline this year to shutdown (27 in 2014), while Croatian Airlines and Adria Airways nervously wait for their privatization as it is “swim or sink” time for them and others like LOT, TAROM, Estonian Air, Czech Airlines, AirBaltic, etc. as they have all taken or will take their last “one time” EU allowed state aid packages, and from now on for most, if they run out of money, they have NO choice but to file for bankruptcy. The low cost carriers (LCC) in Europe continue to grow at a fast pace and challenge the existence of national carriers as incumbents cannot muster any significant competitive response against the LCC onslaught in Europe. Meanwhile, fully government owned AirBaltic of Latvia becomes the launch customer for Bombardier’s CS300 (20 on order, 13 + 7 options), the $US 1.44 billion aircraft cost and launch customer designation is not realistic from an airline based in Latvia that lost $US 220 million since 2010, bailed out by the Government in 2011 and has made only $US 11 million in net profit in the past 2 years on revenues of $US 688 million (a slim 1.6% net profit margin), it is a barely a financially viable carrier without the new and expensive CS300’s. The airline has 24 aircraft today (B737-300/500, Q400’s) making it the 36th largest airline in Europe (following ‘big’ names like Onur Air and Norwind Airlines ?) is this a joke ? Bombardier has NO “better” customer for the launch of the CS300 ? the quality of its current customer order book is sad indeed after Lufthansa and Korean. It reminds me of the Sukhoi SSJ-100 tragic launch customer Armavia (of Armenia), which was an absolute PR and marketing disaster, as it accepted the 1st aircraft, could not finance the 2nd aircraft, and then went bust. Anyway, the plight of the small/medium government owned and private airlines in Europe continues, what is their future ? or is there one ? Air Serbia pulls off an incredible corporate turnaround in 1 year under its “white knight” equity partnership with Etihad Airways, but other airlines may not be so lucky, time to look at new business models for survival before the wave of European bankruptcies begins as surely 50 European countries cannot all have a national airline ! | AVIATION DOCTOR - insights beyond the industry headlines
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