In March I wrote about PRAGUSA.ONE, an airline startup that plans to fly from Dubrovnik and Prague to destinations around the world with Airbus A350 aircraft that exclusively feature premium economy. The airline now claims to be weeks from launching operations.
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The A340 and A330 you described sound like they’re HiFly’s planes…in fact that illustration is just a picture of a HiFly A330neo with the PRAGUSA.ONE name photoshopped onto it. So my money is on this actually happening, because it’s sounding like they’ve genuinely worked out leases (presumably a wet-lease arrangement) with HiFly…
Poor Croatia - more hoards of insipid tourists on the GoT tours looking for the perfect Kings Landing selfie. I wouldn't take free tickets to Dubrovnik in the summer- even with covid. Overpriced, too crowded, and sadly devoid of any local culture as it's been diluted by years of over-tourism. No thanks. Let's hope other places in Europe open up or there will be more Americans in Croatia than most US states. And thats a depressing though.
How do people come up with these airline names and actually think they're marketable. PRAGUSA.ONE? WTF is that? A new bargain priced pasta sauce? Seriously, this all sounds a bit dubious.
This actually makes sense, its a location that is currently popular as a summer beach connection and to capitalize on GoT, it is also in a country that wants US travelers and is allowing them in. Seems like a perfect route but i would imagine that AA and UA add more routes here.
Any idea how these leased planes are going to be configured specifically? I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “regular” configuration
Ragusa is the historical name for Dubrovnik, which fits quite well with the Prague element... I actually thought it was quite an ingenious name. I can see this airline working quite well as a seasonal leisure carrier to a bunch of niche European destinations in both summer and winter.
perfect for me and my friends going to Ultra Europe in Split....beats connecting in a diff country w limited flights to Split...im down
Until I saw that it plans to fly to Croatia, I thought the PRAGUSA name meant they flew between Prague and the USA.
I would express my strong concerns.
Will be a certain failure. Most of the plan will be ficticious or even a lie.
If you research the founder and CEO you will quickly see that failure will be certain.
I can only recommend to watch the below if you would like to get an idea about Krsimir Budinski and his business ethics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSHC4TTttgM
You may want to do a little research (Google search) on people before letting them use your articles and interviews as free advertisement.
Kresimir is clearly known for being involved in multiple scams and this will be one too.
FYI:
https://zamaaero.com/10/03/2021/analize/pragusa-megavizionarstvo-ili-scam/
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSHC4TTttgM