Petition to Mesto Piešťany and Trnava Region concerning its airport

Petition to Mesto Piešťany and Trnava Region

Concerning Letisko Piešťany, a.s.

As the website of Letisko Piestany does not give any electronic contact address, there is not any email address on its website, hereby I petition the following:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please change the "marketing" name of Your airport (but do not change the legal name, it is not necessary at all). You only change the trade name, marketing name, not the legal one.

Hahn airport changed its name twice, and it worked better and better. Weeze airport changed its name and it also worked....

I propose a change for

Bratislava/ Nitra

2. Nitra/ Bratislava

3. Nitra South Slovakia Airport.

Only the marketing name is changed, everything else remains as it was. It is not very costly. Legal name of the airport and all names in legal documents remain as they were.

Can You apply for funding to extend the runway of Piestany Airport to 2100 meters of length at least, 2500 meters at best, to be able to serve low cost airlines in the future? Do You possess the necessary land / terrain to do so?

Can You please ask low cost airlines of Europe, if any of these airlines is willing to fly to Nitra/ Bratislava? South Slovakia Airport if the runway would be extended? Can You please contact such airlines?

Can You please apply for funding to Piestany and Nitra city authorities and regional authorities of Trnava region to extend the runway? If You did it already in the past, can You do it once more?

I come from Poland. In Poland, some airports were built only with local funds only, with no use of EU fundes or central governement money. The same might happen in Piestany. No central governement money is neccessary.

There is no airport in Nitra, but there are big airports in proximity. You should use the chance that there are big airports in the vicinity. It is not a threat, BUT FOREMOST- IT IS A BIG CHANCE.. You should change the name of the airport for a better one, to grab the chance.

In my town a similar airport was revived due to subsidies for airlines to operate route Zielona Gora-Warszawa. In Your case, the line to Prague was closed. I read that recently there was "historical flight which marked the 80th anniversary of Prague Ruzyne airport (now Vaclav Havel International Airport) with its first flight being Prague - Piestany."

I also read the entry of Stefan Steiner who wrote: "Toto je ale úžasné vidieť! Ja si ešte pamätám, keď do Piešťan pravideľne lietal JAK40 ČSA z Prahy a dokonca v jednom období bola linka ČSA prevádzkovaná JAK 40- z Prahy cez Piešťany do Poprad- Tatry a som ju na úseku z Piešťan do Tatier aj vyskúšal- bolo to niekedy v 1987? myslím február- sobota poobede- dodnes na to spomínam..Spáť mala tá linka trať z Popradu cez Bratislavu do Prahy...Kde sú tie krásne časy........?!!"

Such a route should have been subsidized, as this is "infant industry" and infrant industry argument says that such businesses should be financially supported for a while, before they will develop and mature. In Your case the offer of passenger flights to Piestany was a very short episode.

But, given Your case, I would say that funds should rather go for runway expansion only, so that thew airport would have any economic future. As nowadays STOL-airports such as Yours face difficulties around the world, You should urgently fight to survive. Because such length of runway may cause that the airport will face very sad future...

What I have read and disagree that it is a threat only"

"Chair of the board of the Letisko Piešťany company, Remo Cicutto, sees competition of Bratislava and Vienna-Schwechat airports behind the weak interest in Piešťany." [1]

No, competition is also a cjhance. Please, take the business model of low-cost-airport, change name for "Vienna-Bratislava-Nitra" for example, and check then, if there will be no change in performance. I attach data below, that such change does take place if You drop the less popular name for something more popular:

Change of airport name in Hahn and economic performance

Year/ Passengers/ Operations
2014 2447140 19103
2013 2667529 25065
2012 2791195 30015
2011 2894109 32923
2010 3463571 37081
2009 3743281 38970
2008 3909862 40586
2007 3955661 40980
2006 3525359 39610
2005 3001898 37283
2004 2744550 31484
2003 2407911 31092 ------------------------------> Year of name changey
2002 1451530 25564
2001 438486 22912
2000 380281 23332
1999 140706 19632
1998 32040 10064
1997 19026 7440

Year/ Passengers at Duesseldorf- Weeze after name change

Year/ Passengers Number
2003 207.992 ----------------------------------------->name change year

2004 796.745

2005 591.744

2006 585.403

2007 848.852

2008 1.525.063

2009 2.403.119

2010 2.896.999

2011 2.421.720

2012 2.209.007

2013 2.488.956

2014 1.806.964

Some informations form Wikipedia:

The airport has undergone several name changes in its history as a civil airport. The operators originally wanted to name it after the city of Düsseldorf, but the significant distance of 70 km (43 mi) to that city, which already had two closer international airports (the actual Düsseldorf Airport as well as Cologne Bonn Airport), resulted in the name being blocked by a court ruling that it was likely to mislead passengers. However, Ryanair still refers to it as "Düsseldorf-Weeze". The airport actually serves better the closer Dutch cities of Venlo, Nijmegen and Arnhem, the German city of Duisburg and the immediate Weeze area than Düsseldorf.

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Er hat nach Ende der militärischen Nutzung im Jahr 1999 mehrfach den Namen gewechselt und hieß zunächst Flughafen Niederrhein, wird aber schon seit 2003 von Ryanair unter der Bezeichnung Flughafen Düsseldorf (Weeze)vermarktet. Nachdem andere Namensvarianten, die die Nähe zum rund 70 Kilometer entfernten Düsseldorf betonen sollten, gerichtlich verboten wurden, nennt sich der Flughafen seit 2005 nur noch Airport Weeze. Ryanair wurde gleichzeitig aber erlaubt, den Flughafen weiter unter Düsseldorf (Weeze) zu vermarkten, muss dabei jedoch stets die Erläuterung „ca. 70 Kilometer von Düsseldorf" als Fußnote hinzufügen.

[1] https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20380632/region-proposes-liquidation-of-the-airport-town-will-resist.html?ref=av-center

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