Air Montenegro
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Founded | 8 February 2021 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 10 June 2021 (as Air Montenegro) Parent company Government of Montenegro | | |||||
Headquarters | Podgorica, Montenegro | ||||||
Key people | Mark Anžur, CEO | ||||||
Website | airmontenegro.com |
To Montenegro a.d. (stylised as ToMontenegro and 2Montenegro), is the
History
Background and origins
The predecessor airline company
In December 2020, the Government of Montenegro announced the shutdown and liquidation of the Montenegro Airlines a.d company in the forthcoming weeks stating mismanagement and accumulating losses for several years.[6][7] Shortly after, it was announced that the airline would suspend all flights from 26 December 2020 marking the end of its operations.[8]
Airline foundation
On 29 December 2020, it was announced by Minister Mladen Bojanić that the Montenegro Airlines would be reorganized and replaced with a new company the To Montenegro (2 Montenegro), as the new Montenegrin flag carrier airline.[9] The liquidation procedure of Montenegro Airlines would cost about 50 million euro but it is inevitable, as the country's competition authority has ruled that the law for public investment in the flag carrier adopted in 2019 was illegal, the government said in December 2021.[10]
The new company was officially introduced on 2 March 2021 by the government. In April 2021, it was reported that the Montenegrin government made Air Montenegro the official name for the ToMontenegro project and that the airline would start up using two Embraer 195 aircraft, transferred from former Montenegro Airlines.
Fleet
Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||||
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Y | Total | |||||||
Embraer 195
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2 | 2 | 110 | 110 | Transferred from Embraer 195s
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Airbus A320-200
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1 | 0 | 180 | 180 | On wet lease | |||
Total | 3 | 2 | — |
References
- ^ Prvi let, Air Montenegro, 1 June 2021
- ^ Predstavljena nova crnogorska aviokompanija, Al Jazeera Balkans, 2 March 2021
- ^ Air Montenegro poleće, aviatica.rs, 28 May 2021
- ^ a b c d e f "Istorijat". Montenegro Airlines. Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- ^ ch-aviation.com - Montenegro Airlines accounts frozen over ACG debts 12 August 2016
- ^ "Montenegro Closes Indebted National Airline". 25 December 2020.
- ^ aerotelegraph.com (German) 25 December 2020
- ^ "Montenegro's indebted state airline ceases operations". CTV News. 2020-12-26.
- ^ Bojanić: Nova kompanija zvaće se "2 Montenegro", 29 December 2020, Vijesti
- ^ Montenegro's new flag carrier starts regular operations, SeeNews, 10 June 2021
- ^ Podgorica rebrands ToMontenegro as Air Montenegro - CH-Aviation
- ^ First flight of national airline Air Montenegro will be to Serbia, Government of Montenegro, 9 June 2021
- ^ Montenegro Airlines successor Air Montenegro reveals launch date Archived 2022-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, AeroTime, 3 June 2021