Belgrade Airport set for busy winter season
Belgrade Airport is preparing for a busy winter season, which will see it handle more flights than ever before, following on from what is set to be a record summer. A number of carriers have already committed to increasing both frequencies and capacity to the Serbian capital when compared to last year. Air Serbia will headline the airport's winter operations with the addition of seven routes, which were launched this summer. The carrier will maintain two weekly flights to Barcelona, Cairo, Helsinki, Kiev, Krasnodar, Madrid and Rijeka. Furthermore, it is soon expected to file additional frequencies on some five routes within its network for the upcoming winter.
Among foreign carriers, Air France will maintain daily operations between Paris and Belgrade, which were launched this summer season. Israeli carrier Israir Airlines will extend its seasonal operations between Tel Aviv and Belgrade past late October until January 5 of next year. It will run two weekly rotations. Flydubai will boost operations from five weekly last winter to daily starting October 27. Aegean Airlines will introduce an extra weekly service to the Serbian capital for a total of four flights per week from Athens. Wizz Air will upgrade its seasonal service to Larnaca to year-round operations, while low cost carrier easyJet plans to boost its flights between Geneva and Belgrade to three weekly in November and four weekly from mid-December for the rest of the winter season until late March. The route is currently served twice per week.
On the other hand, Norwegian Air Shuttle, which last winter upgraded its seasonal service between Stockholm and Belgrade to year-round operations, has downgraded the route to summer only. The flights were maintained once per week during the 2018/2019 winter. However, it will continue to run a two weekly service from Oslo. The airline faced competition on its Stockholm route from both Air Serbia, which serves Arlanda Airport, and Wizz Air, which flies to Skavsta. Belgrade Airport expects to handle over six million passengers in 2019, its first full year under French operator VINCI. During the first half of the year, the airport welcomed 2.612.981 travellers through its doors, up 6%.
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