On 1 July 2010 Slovenia's Ministry of Transport put operation of the airport for 30 years up for tender.

 The successful bidder will be selected on the basis of a points system.

Points will be awarded for the best made-up future capital gain of the airport, best made-up estimates of future increases in passenger and freight throughput, and best made-up numbers of future employees.

The winner will be the person or company who makes up the biggest estimated increases over the 30-year term.

Whoever wins the right to pay for the lease will then pay rent to the government and the local municipality, who both own portions of the airport land.

You will also pay rent to Aerodrom Maribor d.o.o. for the access and parking areas.

Customer access to the airport and parking is guaranteed for one year.

 After this, the company Aerodrom d.o.o. - presently an asset of the bankrupt Prevent Global d.d. - can make up any price it fancies for access or parking.

You must develop the airport infrastructure to provide a capital gain of at least 13%.

You must increase the number of passengers from a few hundred to at least 3000 in 2012 and at least 10000 by 2030.

You must increase the cargo volume to at least 200 tonnes in 2012 and 1300 tonnes by 2030.

Cargo in the year to 2003 was up from 1000 to 5000 tonnes, according to reports following the bankruptcy of Aerodrom Maribor d.o.o. and its purchase by Prevent following "liquidity problems and unsettled property relations".

The tender offer ends with "Other warnings of the landlord".

At any point during the 30 year agreement the Slovenian government can end your lease.

They can take everything you've built or installed.

They can take over the business and all its assets, achievements and goodwill.

And pay you nothing.

Interested?  Contact jozef.slana (at) gov.si at the Ministry of Transport of the Government of Slovenia.

Update 19 September

In the first tender offer there were no bidders.