The "embrajer E190" plane, which "ToMontenegro" leased from the Ukrainian company "Wind Rose" had a breakdown again yesterday on the line to Istanbul, which is why it took off from Tivat instead of 6.40:15.18 a.m. only at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., eight and a half hours late.
He was supposed to return from Istanbul to Tivat already at 11.10, but his return was not expected until late last night. Yesterday's plane outage could still cause indirect delays today. Yesterday, the company did not announce the reasons for the delay.
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"Vijesti" published a text at the beginning of July that the planes that the new management of the state airline "ToMontenegro" hired this year, the "Airbus A320" from the beginning of April and the "Embrajer E190" from the beginning of June, already had several outages from the lines, causing delay and postponement of flights, which caused multimillion-dollar damage to the company, but also negatively affected its reputation among passengers.
Until then, these planes had eight outages in four months, and two more have occurred in the last 20 days. In the last year, the rented plane had only one outage.
"Vijesti" then published part of the documentation from which it can be seen that the later dismissed members of the Board of Directors of "ToMontenegro" Vukadin Stojanović and Mirko Škerović had been warning for months about the wrong approach and method of renting the disputed planes, as well as that the Board of Directors had been submitted only a few analyzes and contracts hours before the session where consent was to be given to multimillion-dollar aircraft leases.
A few days before his resignation, Stojanović sent a letter to the new executive director Marko Anžur in which he requested "urgent organization of meetings with the lessors of the aircraft "A320" and "E190", due to the fact that traffic outages are becoming more frequent and cause damage both of a financial nature and and the reputation of the company".
"The planes were acquired in a hurry, without adequate analysis, although there was enough time for the same, but both your predecessor and part of the Board of Directors made the matter difficult to the point where we rented the plane at a price that was up to 100% higher than the one that was rejected a few months ago as unfavorable", wrote Stojanović.
He also states that, a few days earlier, the Montenegrin public was deceived by the statement that the company had a cost of only 6.000 euros due to flight delays, and that this amount will eventually double by the end of the current year.
"It is true that the cost of reserving on this basis, to date, is at a level of more than one million euros, while it is estimated that by the end of the year it will amount to more than three million euros. Just one flight with 100 passengers, on this basis, generates a reservation cost of 25.000 euros, so speculating with 6.000 euros is primarily playing with the intelligence of the public, and first of all the employees of 'ToMontenegro'. What is very important is that it cannot be said that chasing imported crews around the Montenegrin coast, chaos in hotels, repetitive breakdowns on planes and the like, is a common thing in aviation, and that is almost 70 percent of the reasons why so much damage was generated." , Stojanović stated at the time.
In May, Stojanović warned that the number of outages would increase
Two months ago, Stojanović submitted to the new director Anjur in a letter his earlier opinions and warnings about the method and choice of aircraft that were leased, which are the dominant cause of the delay, and invited him to look at the minutes from the meetings of the Board of Directors where decisions were made about the lease of these aircraft .
"In order to better understand the situation, it would be good to know that during the entire summer season of 2022, the entire fleet had only one outage of a rented plane, while this year, before entering the peak tourist season, when the heat is high and the plane's stress is at its highest, leased planes from traffic fired eight times. It is not difficult to assume that there will be an escalation during the two hottest and busiest months to come," said Stojanović.
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