Eurowings returning to Serbian market in 2020
Low cost carrier Eurowings will resume flights between Stuttgart and Belgrade in 2020. The airline will maintain three weekly services between the two cities starting June 2, each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with an Airbus A319 aircraft. It will compete directly against Air Serbia on the route, which maintains six weekly rotations to Stuttgart. The Lufthansa subsidiary will return to the Serbian market following a year-long hiatus. Previously, it only served the two cities during the peak summer months of July and August, however, flights have now been scheduled until the end of the summer season in late October, with tickets for its entire 2020/2021 winter network yet to be put on sale.
Eurowings maintains extensive operations from Stuttgart to points in the former Yugoslavia, including year-round flights to Pristina, Sarajevo, Split and Zagreb, as well as seasonal services to Dubrovnik, Mostar, Osijek, Pula, Rijeka and Zadar. This summer, the airline introduced seasonal operations from both Stuttgart and Dusseldorf to Ohrid, however, these have so far been omitted from its schedule for next summer. Eurowings has been expanding across the region in recent years. In addition to entering the Macedonian market in 2019, it also launched a new service from Berlin to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital and established a base in Pristina with a handful of new routes.
Eurowings’ return to Belgrade marks the city’s second new route announced so far for the 2020 summer season. LOT Polish Airlines recently scheduled daily services between Budapest and the Serbian capital, which are due to commence on March 30. Meanwhile, Nikola Tesla Airport recorded its 39th month of consecutive growth by handling 734.898 passengers in July, representing an increase of 9.4%. It marks the first time the airport registered over 700.000 travellers in a single month. The number of commercial aircraft movements grew 10.5% to 6.855. The airport was Europe’s 84th busiest in July, positioning itself between Nantes and Milan Linate. During the January - July period, Belgrade Airport welcomed 3.347.879 passengers through its doors, up 6.8%, while aircraft movements improved 5.9% to 34.735.
| Month | PAX | Change (%) |
|---|---|---|
| JAN | 347.544 | ▲ 4.1 |
| FEB | 315.717 | ▲ 6.1 |
| MAR | 372.122 | ▲ 1.6 |
| APR | 467.469 | ▲ 4.4 |
| MAY | 507.633 | ▲ 5.9 |
| JUN | 602.466 | ▲ 11.7 |
| JUL | 734.898 | ▲ 9.4 |
Further flight details for the new Stuttgart - Belgrade service can be found here.
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