Montenegro Airlines still offline

Weeks after the web presentation of the national airline of Montenegro was attacked by hackers from Kosovo leaving messages in Albanian and images of the Albanian flag the airlines web presentation is still offline leaving a statement for passengers to come back later. Montenegro Airlines is today the only national European airline without a web presentation. The airline was supposed to change its previous design to a new look this October which would include online ticket purchase but, due to the new circumstances, it is expected that the new web site will be online in late August even though the airline was running a competition for a new web design which was to be online in October.

This morning the site of the Montenegro's Parliament was attacked and so far along with Montenegro Airlines the web presentation of news portal Dnevnik and various Montenegro government ministry websites have been attacked.

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montenegroairlines.com under attack

The official internet website of the Montenegrin national airline has been under attack for the last 24 hours (and is still under attack as this news is written) by ethnic Albanian hackers from Kosovo. The attack commenced yesterday in the late afternoon hours when the Montenegro Airlines web page was covered with Albanian flags. There were a few lines written in English all reading “United Albania”. The group of hackers signed with “Kosova Hackers Group”. In the evening hours Montenegro Airlines “cleaned out” its website however attacks are still taking place. As this news article is written one can enter montenegroairlines.com and come across material such as “Republika e Kosoves”, “Albanian hackers 4 ever” and a message written in Albanian.

The hacking group has become famous in the Balkans as they have already hacked into the rock internet portal “Balkanrock” when they wrote messages such as “United States of Albania”. Three years ago the Serbia’s mobile company “Mobiklik” web presentation was attacked with messages “063 never again in Kosovo) with 063 being the calling number of the mobile operator.
However this is a first time that a website of an airline company has been attacked this way. Montenegro Airlines has recently announced they are developing a new webpage which will be online by late September/early October 2008. The new website will include Internet booking and a much clearer and interesting web presentation. We hope security will also be updated.

UPDATE: montenegroairlines.com has now been taken off line

UPDATE 2: Hackers have now attacked the web presentation of Montenegro’s daily newspapers

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New flights from Slovenia to Kosovo begin

The Slovenian charter airline Aurora has started charter services from Maribor, Slovenia to Priština, the capital of the disputed breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo. The airline is operating an MD82 which is able to seat 169 passengers. During July and August it will operate 10 charter flights between the two cities. Maribor Airport said that travel agency Realta and Aurora Airlines are organising the charter flights which will be operated on July 8 and 22 as well as August 11, 25, 28. Because flights are operated at night time the return from Priština takes place the next day. Due to high interest a flight has been added for August 25 with an added flight expected in July as well. The flight lasts 45 minutes one way while a return ticket with taxes comes up to an expensive 303 Euros.

Adria Arways already operates scheduled flights from Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana to Priština.

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