Summer 2019 - Air Serbia
The 2019 summer season begins on Sunday March 31 with Air Serbia set to make a number of network changes as it implements its largest single expansion since its relaunch in October 2013. The Serbian carrier will introduce nine new routes, seven of which will be year-round and two of which will be maintained seasonally. The new destinations will mostly see Air Serbia return to markets formerly operated by JAT Yugoslav Airlines - Barcelona, Cairo, Kiev, Madrid, Rijeka and Zadar - with Nice, Krasnodar and Helsinki having never been served from Belgrade by either Air Serbia or its predecessor. All of the new routes will be run twice per week with exception to the Finnish capital, Kiev and Krasnodar, which will operate three times per week.
The Serbian carrier will add an extra weekly flight onto seven routes. These include Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Paris, Sofia, Stockholm, Tivat and Zagreb, while an additional two weekly services will be introduced to Zurich, when compared to the 2018 summer season. The airline will run double daily flights to the French capital, where it will compete against Air France and ASL Airlines France this summer. Furthermore, in a boost to its Scandinavian operations, both Copenhagen and Stockholm will be maintained on a daily basis. In addition, Tivat will be operated 22 times per week, Zagreb twelve, Sofia daily, while Zurich will be run up to nineteen times per week.
The airline plans to boost capacity on some routes as well. Three of its double daily flights to Vienna will be operated with the 144-seat Airbus A319 aircraft this summer instead of the seventy-seat ATR72 turboprop, while all six of its services to Split will be maintained with the A319 instead of the ATR. Air Serbia will run a significant number of charter flights this summer which will be performed by its dedicated leisure brand Aviolet, with almost 1.000 operations planned so far. On the other hand, the airline will also decrease frequencies on four routes by one weekly flight, in order to free up capacity for some of the abovementioned destinations. Athens, Milan, Skopje and St Petersburg will all have one flight per week less than last year. As a result, operations to the Greek capital (double daily), as well as Milan (daily), and St Petersburg (three weekly) will now be maintained with the same number of frequencies as they were during the 2017 summer season.
Please note that the changes listed below are preliminary and based on current availability in the GDS (Global Distribution System). Air Serbia is prone to making additional changes mid-way through the season. The table below displays the peak weekly frequency on each route during the course of the summer season. Increases in frequencies to a number of destinations do not come into effect until mid-June. Seasonal flights to Split and Dubrovnik will run until the end of the summer season, while services to Malta and Pula will operate until mid-September, and to St Petersburg and Hamburg until mid-October. EX-YU Aviation News will also bring you summer season changes for Adria Airways, Croatia Airlines and Montenegro Airlines during the course of the month.
| Destination | Frequency S2018 | Frequency S2019 | Change | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 10 | 10 | - | - |
| Athens | 15 | 14 | ▼ 1 | - |
| Barcelona | 0 | 2 | ▲ 2 | starts JUN04 |
| Banja Luka | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| Beirut | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Berlin | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Brussels | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| Bucharest | 8 | 8 | - | - |
| Cairo | 0 | 2 | ▲ 2 | starts JUN04 |
| Copenhagen | 6 | 7 | ▲ 1 | - |
| Dubrovnik | 6 | 7 | ▲ 1 | resumes MAY18 |
| Dusseldorf | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Frankfurt | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Hamburg | 3 | 4 | ▲ 1 | resumes JUN20 |
| Helsinki | 0 | 3 | ▲ 3 | starts JUN03 |
| Kiev | 0 | 3 | ▲ 3 | starts JUN04 |
| Krasnodar | 0 | 3 | ▲ 3 | starts JUN03 |
| Larnaca | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Ljubljana | 12 | 12 | - | - |
| London Heathrow | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Madrid | 0 | 2 | ▲ 2 | starts JUN05 |
| Malta | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Milan | 8 | 7 | ▼ 1 | - |
| Moscow | 10 | 10 | - | - |
| New York | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Nice | 0 | 2 | ▲ 2 | starts JUN06 |
| Paris | 13 | 14 | ▲ 1 | - |
| Podgorica | 21 | 21 | - | - |
| Pula | 4 | 4 | - | resumes JUN10 |
| Prague | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Rijeka | 0 | 2 | ▲ 2 | starts JUN04 |
| Rome | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Sarajevo | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Sofia | 6 | 7 | ▲ 1 | - |
| Split | 6 | 6 | - | resumes MAY13 |
| Skopje | 13 | 12 | ▼ 1 | - |
| Stockholm | 6 | 7 | ▲ 1 | - |
| St Petersburg | 4 | 3 | ▼ 1 | - |
| Stuttgart | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Tel Aviv | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| Tirana | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Tivat | 21 | 22 | ▲ 1 | - |
| Thessaloniki | 14 | 14 | - | - |
| Venice | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| Vienna | 14 | 14 | - | - |
| Zadar | 0 | 2 | ▲ 2 | starts JUN21 |
| Zagreb | 10 | 11 | ▲ 1 | - |
| Zurich | 17 | 19 | ▲ 2 | - |
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