Air Serbia tops European flag carrier growth
Air Serbia had added the most new routes to its destination network among Europe's flag carriers this summer season according to the data and analytics company Cirium, previously known as FlighGlobal, which analyses trends within aviation and the wider travel industry. Air Serbia has added nine new routes so far with a further twelve to launch between mid-July and early August. It is followed closely by Aeroflot, with eighteen new routes and Turkish Airlines with a net gain of fourteen routes. The Serbian carrier is also one of the few national carriers in Europe not to have dropped any destinations compared to last summer season, joining the likes of Swiss, TAROM, Croatia Airlines and airBaltic, according to Cirium, which analysed data up until September.
Commenting on its network growth, Air Serbia said, "The first few days of June were marked with the introduction of direct flights to Helsinki, Barcelona, Madrid, Kiev, Krasnodar, Rijeka, Nice and Cairo, with Zadar included in our schedule later. However, the biggest expansion in the history of our company does not end there. Constantine the Great Airport in Niš will become the second base for our aircraft, alongside Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, as early as this month. We intend to make an important regional hub there where roads lead from the centre of the Balkans to all four sides of the world". It added, "We are connecting Serbia's former capital with twelve European cities. We are proud to be able to work on the promotion of our beautiful land and to present Niš to tourists and businesspeople".
On the other hand, Czech Airlines has discontinued the most routes when compared to last summer season, with up to fifteen services cancelled. This is due to a number of flights being transferred to its parent company Smartwings. It is followed by Adria Airways, which retained only one of the eight new routes introduced in its network last summer, while discontinuing some long-running destinations such as Moscow and Warsaw. The list is topped off by Icelandair, which has cancelled five routes from its Keflavik hub due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, as well as transatlantic oversupply.
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