By: LZ-BTZ - 7th June 2004 at 23:09
Hemus is replacing their Tu-134 with BAe146-200. Two are now flying. Third is expected to arrive soon.
BH air will cut its Tu-154M services by the end of the year. They are subsidary of Hemus, but are also the biggest charter airline in Bulgaria with 7 airplanes – three A320-200 and four Tu-154M. Their Tu-154M are one of the most beautiful 154, and I will miss them on the bulgarian airports.
By: MSR777 - 19th May 2004 at 22:31
Mark, Hemus Air is still very much around as an organization. Balkan Holidays are a subsidiery of Hemus and another division of the company crews and maintains the Albanian Airlines BAe146 aircraft which hopefully will be operating TIA-LGW-TIA later in the summer.
By: Jeanske_SN - 19th May 2004 at 22:10
What series TU 134’s are they?
Yes, TU154’s only meet Stage 3 noise restrictions.
By: Mark L - 19th May 2004 at 21:13
They will probably be gone from the UK by the end of the year. There seem to be 2 different fleets of Tupolevs, the 154Ms which come to Europe and the 134s which go into the CIS, with A320s coming in rather steadily. There are still 10 or so of the older A320s floating around, and enough of these should be picked up soon to get rid of the 154s.
Can anyone provide any more info on Balkan Holidays? They are what used to be Hemus air I believe, but with the collapse of Balkan everything in Bulgaria seemed to change around a bit.
Also are there plans for the TU154Ms to be removed from Europe in the next stage of noise reductions?
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May 19, 2004 at 8:27 pm