Slovenia fails to find new operator for Maribor Airport
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The Slovenian Ministry for Infrastructure has not found a suitable concessionaire for Maribor Airport, despite several rounds of talks with an interested party. The state-owned consulting and management company DRI will continue to manage the airport until the end of 2024. SIDrone aviation school and locksmith Ključavničarstvo Kunc were the only ones to submit a joint bid to manage Maribor Airport at a state organised tender. SIDrone is owned by Rok Belič, former cabin crew manager at the bankrupt flag carrier Adria Airways. The offer met all the tender requirements, so the Ministry began negotiations. It found that SIDrone was unable to provide a positive financial plan. It proposed to Infrastructure Minister Alenka Bratušek to end the process without selecting a candidate. Ms Bratušek previously said, “In all honesty, if there have been no commercial flights in the airport’s fifty years, it probably won’t happen, but other activities could take place”. DRI took over the management of Maribor Airport as a stop-gap solution in June 2019 after the Chinese-backed airport operator announced it would terminate its fifteen-year lease agreement due to disagreements with the government. The contract with DRI has since been extended multiple times. The government has provided DRI with 1.6 million euros for the management of the airport so far this year.
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