Adria Airways

Adria Airways
IATA code :	JP
ICAO code :	ADR
Call sign :	ADRIA
Founding:	1961
Operation stopped:	2019
Seat:	Ljubljana , Slovenia
Turnstile :	Ljubljana Pristina
Home airport :	Ljubljana
Company form:	Corporation
IATA prefix code :	165
Management:	Holger Kowarsch ( CEO )
Number of employees:	500 (2019)
Sales:	€ 146 million (2013)
Passenger volume:	1.3 million (2016)
Alliance :	Star Alliance
Frequent Flyer Program :	Miles & More
Fleet size:	18th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.adria.si
Adria Airways ceased operations in 2019. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Adria Airways was the largest airline in Slovenia , based in Ljubljana and based at Ljubljana Airport . She was a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance . Adria Airways ceased operations due to insolvency at the end of September 2019.

history

Douglas DC-6 from Inex-Adria Airways

In 1961 Adria Aviopromet was founded in Yugoslavia as a charter airline . After the merger with InterExport , the company traded as Inex-Adria Aviopromet (Inex-Adria Airways) from 1968 . Maribor Airport , near the Austrian border, opened in June 1976 . Inex-Adria Airways could count on many customers, especially from Austria, as it offered far cheaper flights to other European countries than Austrian Airlines at the time . Charter flights from Germany were offered as early as the 1970s, for example from Düsseldorf to the Dalmatian Split. In the 1980s, the liner service was also started. In 1985, Munich-Riem Airport was added to the flight plan as the first German destination .

In 1986 the name was changed to Adria Airways. In 1989 the airline took over its first Airbus A320-200 ; thus she was the first customer of this aircraft type. The company became a member of IATA in the same year . When the ten-day war in Slovenia broke out in 1991 when Yugoslavia fell apart , Adria Airways brought its aircraft to safety at the nearby Klagenfurt airport in Austria and was able to resume air traffic immediately after Slovenia gained independence.

Adria Airways became a regional member in December 2004 and a full member in January 2010 of the Star Alliance .

In December 2010 it was reported that Adria Airways had accumulated debts of EUR 86 million. In January 2011, long-time CEO Tadej Tufek resigned. He was succeeded by Klemen Boštjančič.

The Republic of Slovenia and Nova Ljubljanska banka were the main shareholders with almost 90% at that time . On August 1, 2012 Adria Airways was officially put up for sale. A total of 74.87% of the shares that had previously belonged to the Slovenian state, the Slovenian investor PDP, the Archdiocese of Maribor and four banks were to be sold. A privatization of the airline had been planned for a long time. After losses had been flown in constantly in previous years, these measures should bring the airline back into the black by 2013. Privatization did not materialize. For the first half of 2013, it was finally possible to report a significant reduction in losses from 7.7 to under 1.5 million euros as well as increased utilization. Nevertheless, the sale of office buildings and its own flight school was planned.

After a loss of 9.2 million euros in 2015, the German 4K Invest AG took over 91.6% of Adria Airways in January 2016 and appointed the Austrian Arno Schuster as CEO . Schuster launched a savings program, but a later expansion of the Ljubljana hub and the charter flight and wet leasing business was announced.

In November 2018 Adria Airways was announced as a new customer of the Suchoi Superjet 100 . Adria was to receive 15 superjets. At the same time, a cooperative maintenance and repair operation of the company and the manufacturer was planned in order to improve the previously inadequate after-sales support for the machine. However, Adria could not negotiate a contract that promised her a fair and stable long-term partnership.

On September 23, 2019, flight operations were suspended for at least two days due to liquidity problems; several lessors withdrew all three Airbus A319s and five other Canadair regional jets in operation at the time. After the company announced on September 27th that it wanted to keep flight operations in limited form until September 30th in order to be able to continue looking for a strategic partner, Adria Airways finally announced on the latter date that it would enter bankruptcy proceedings and become insolvent . Flight operations were discontinued.

Destinations

Destinations of Adria Airways

Adria Airways served 24 destinations across Europe from its Ljubljana base . In the German-speaking area , Frankfurt , Munich , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Vienna and Zurich were served. From October 2018, a plane stationed at Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport also served Zurich , Vienna and London .

In addition, there were codeshare agreements with Austrian Airlines , Lufthansa and Swiss, for example .

fleet

Bombardier CRJ900 from Adria Airways

de Havilland Canada DHC-7 of Adria Airways, Stuttgart 1989

Fleet at the end of operations

As of September 2019, the Adria Airways fleet consisted of 18 aircraft with an average age of 16.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Airbus A319-100	03			142/144
Bombardier CRJ700ER	02			70/72
Bombardier CRJ900LR	07th			86/90
Saab 2000	06th			50
total	18th

Previously deployed aircraft

Adria Airways previously operated the following types of aircraft under their various names:

• Airbus A320
• BAC 1-11
• Boeing 737-400
• Boeing 737-500
• Canadair CRJ100
• Canadair CRJ200
• de Havilland Canada DHC-7
• Douglas DC-6
• Douglas DC-9-30
• Douglas DC-9-50
• Fokker 100
• McDonnell Douglas MD-81
• McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• Saab 340

Incidents

The DC-9-32 of Inex-Adria, Düsseldorf 1973, which crashed on October 30, 1975

Adria Airways, or what was then Inex-Adria, recorded four accidents in its history, all of them fatally, one of them under Egyptair flight number. 398 people were killed; in three of the four accidents there were no survivors.

• On March 19, 1972, a Douglas DC-9-32 ( aircraft registration YU-AHR ) flew into a mountain about 7 kilometers from the destination airport in Aden . None of the 30 people on board survived this controlled flight into terrain . The machine was operated by Inex Adria Airways on behalf of Egyptair .

• On October 30, 1975, a Douglas DC-9-32 (YU-AJO) coming from Tivat flew into a hill eight kilometers from Prague Airport as it approached for landing . At the time of the accident, fog prevailed with visibility less than 1500 meters. The cause of the accident was controlled flight into terrain . 75 of the 120 aircraft occupants died.

• Plane collision from Zagreb : On September 10, 1976, a Douglas DC-9-32 (YU-AJR) collided with a British Airways aircraft on its way from Split to Cologne / Bonn . All 108 passengers (including 107 tourists from Germany) and the five crew members of the Inex Adria machine were killed.

• On December 1, 1981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (YU-ANA) flew on its way from Ljubljana to Ajaccio in Corsica during the approach to the top of Mount San Pietro. All 173 passengers and seven crew members died (see Inex Adria Aviopromet flight 1308 ).

Subsidiaries

• Amadeus Slovenia (95% owned by Adria Airways)
• Adria Airways Kosovo (100% owned by Adria Airways)
• Darwin Airline - operated flights on behalf of Adria Airways Switzerland (100% owned by the joint parent company 4K Invest)

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Adria Airways  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• last web presence of Adria Airways ( Memento from August 30, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
• Data about the airline Inex Adria Aviopromet in the Aviation Safety Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adria Airways is expanding its fleet , accessed on June 29, 2018
2. ↑ Financial year results of Adria Airways 2013 PDF (English) accessed on February 1, 2015
3. ^ Etihad ends Swiss adventure , accessed July 20, 2017
4. ^ Slovenian airline in need of money: Adria Airways grounded. September 24, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Adria Airways planes remain on the ground for the time being due to lack of money - derStandard.at. Retrieved September 24, 2019 (Austrian German). 
6. ↑ staralliance.com - Adria Airways ( memento of March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 27, 2010
7. ↑ bloomberg.com - Slovenia's Adria Airways May File for Bankruptcy, TVS Reports (English) December 15, 2010
8. ↑ aero.de - respite for Adria Airways ( memento of January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 3, 2015
9. ↑ http://www.adria.si/de/ueber-uns/unternehmen/eigentuemerstructure/ (link not available)
10. ↑ aero.de - Adria Airways advertised for sale accessed on October 3, 2015
11. ↑ austrianaviation.net - Adria: Flying School Lures China Southern August 26, 2013
12. ↑ ^{a b} This is how Adria Airways wants to grow again , accessed on December 7, 2016.
13. ↑ Majority share takeover of Adria Airways dd completed . Adria.si. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
14. ^ Adria Airways - Company Profile . Adria.si. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
15. ↑ Slovenia's Adria Airways cancels SSJ deal , ch-aviation, April 2, 2019
16. ↑ Success for Russian jet: Adria Airways orders 15 Sukhoi superjets
17. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Temporary measure: Adria Airways stops flights due to lack of money. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. September 24, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Adria Airways' three A319s repossessed. In: ch-aviation . ch-aviation GmbH, September 27, 2019, accessed on September 30, 2019 (English). 
19. ^ Slovenia's Adria Airways files for bankruptcy. In: ch-aviation . ch-aviation GmbH, September 30, 2019, accessed on September 30, 2019 (English). 
20. ↑ adria.si - Our destinations accessed on March 9, 2018
21. ↑ Flights to Zurich, Vienna & London ( Memento from July 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 19, 2018
22. ^ Adria Airways - Airline Information . In: ch-aviation . ch-aviation GmbH, accessed on September 30, 2019 (English).
23. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1967–2007.
24. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008-2013.
25. ^ Adria Airways Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. September 24, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 . 
26. ↑ Accident statistics Inex-Adria Aviopromet , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
27. ^ Accident report DC-9-32 YU-AHR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 29, 2016.
28. ^ Accident report DC-9-32 YU-AJO , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
29. ^ Accident report DC-9-32 YU-AJR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
30. ^ Accident report DC-9-81 YU-ANA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
31. ↑ ^{a b} Adria Airways - Annual Report 2009. (No longer available online.) Adria.si, archived from the original on September 30, 2011 ; accessed on March 11, 2016 (English). 
32. ↑ abouttravel.ch Article Accessed on November 18, 2017