2024-05-23 01:41:41
With a watch on new locations within the Gulf international locations, India and Central Africa, in addition to strengthening locations, which Aegean already covers, together with Cyprus, Turkey, Italy, but in addition the Iberian Peninsula with Spain and Portugal, the corporate continues its improvement path closing its first 25 years of operation.
Because the managing director of the Greek airline, Dimitris Geroyannis, identified from Dubai, which has already been added to its “bouquet” of locations, Aegean will proceed its improvement course by providing 19.5 million seats in 47 international locations and 155 locations with fundamental technique the extension of the vacationer season and the discount of seasonality.
This yr, in reality, each the coaching unit that began in 2023 and the relocation of the technical base to the Athens Worldwide Airport will likely be accomplished.
Referring to the twenty fifth birthday that the corporate will have fun in a number of days, Mr. Geroyiannis identified that Aegean wouldn’t have reached the purpose it’s immediately “if it weren’t for the imaginative and prescient and perseverance of its founder, Theodoros Vassilakis, in addition to the strategic of Eutychis Vassilakis”, whereas he additionally made a particular point out of the corporate’s shareholders, who supported it primarily within the early years.
The workers is being strengthened
For the following day, the personnel who will take over the reins of the air service, which began with a workforce of 300 folks to succeed in immediately using 3,500 employees, have already been skilled.
In accordance with the managing director of Aegean, the competitors is hard at Athens airport alone since 50-60 different corporations are lively. He emphasised, nevertheless, that this isn’t one thing that scares the Aegean group, recalling that the Kassandras who questioned the corporate’s improvement each in 2009 with the privatization of Olympiaki and later, in 2014, with the entry of Ryanair into the Greek market: “We’re youngsters of competitors. In Athens we compete with 50 to 60 corporations. We respect competitors, however we aren’t afraid of it. We’ve monumental cohesion as a company, we’ve got a tradition, which we are going to develop”, mentioned Mr. Geroyannis, including that an necessary a part of the corporate’s success relies on “affordable strikes”, because of which “downsizing and human sacrifices”, which different corporations have resorted to, have been averted in tough instances, such because the pandemic.
The locations of the longer term
Relating to the brand new markets in much more distant locations, the administration of Aegean identified that these will concern Saudi Arabia, Central Africa and India and that is additionally the aim of making the “sub-fleet” of its plane by way of the funding in 4 plane of the upgraded model of the A321neo. The planes, which will likely be obtained within the two years 2026 – 2027, will allow longer flights with a variety of 4 to seven and a half hours.
“We see that there’s a demand for a brand new product and the aim is to grow to be worthwhile 1-2 years after we develop them,” mentioned Mr. Gerogiannis.
It’s recalled that on the finish of 2023, the corporate introduced the extension of the order to Airbus from 46 to 50 plane, whereas exercising the correct supplied for within the settlement to buy three extra A321neo plane, in addition to the conversion of 5 preliminary orders of A320neo plane, on the bigger A321neo. To this point, a complete of 28 neo plane have been delivered, whereas one other 22 are scheduled to be delivered between 2024 and 2028.
When it comes to short-term planning, the corporate will provide 13.4 million seats for the summer season program (a 6% enhance), whereas April and Might 2024 “run” with will increase of 12% and 15% respectively. Aegean will proceed to emphasise the event of the home community with further seats, whereas it is going to proceed to assist the Thessaloniki base, which has already reached 20 of the 9 locations with which it began 2018.
Concurrently with the growth of fleet and locations, Aegean has already upgraded the brand new pilot and cabin crew coaching middle. The primary 4 simulators are already working, assembly the wants of each the corporate itself and third-party air carriers, a proven fact that opens a brand new improvement chapter.
The relocation of the Technical Base from constructing 57 to the renovated constructing 56 of the Athens Worldwide Airport can also be underway. To this point, the primary heavy upkeep assessments for overseas corporations have already taken place within the previous services.