Kraljevo Airport readies for commercial flights
Kraljevo’s Morava Airport will see its first commercial service to Vienna next month, with a tender to select an operating carrier for the subsidised three weekly flights to close next Thursday. Operations will be bolstered with the introduction of seasonal services to Thessaloniki from March 2020. “We certainly expect for Wizz Air to apply for the tender and maybe Air Serbia. Actually, I believe Air Serbia is the most interested party considering Kraljevo’s close proximity to Belgrade, so it is easier for them to base an aircraft there. In spite of this, I don’t know whether they have obtained the tender documentation”, the Serbian Deputy Minister for Transport in charge of aviation, Zoran Ilić, said. However, despite Mr Ilić’s hopes, Wizz Air does not fulfil the tender requirements as it does not operate aircraft with up to eighty seats or less.
Despite the ongoing tender for routes of public interest, operator Airports of Serbia is also in talks with a carrier over the introduction of services to Germany and Turkey. Flights to Frankfurt, Munich and Istanbul are believed to be the subject of negotiations. The General Manager of Airports of Serbia, Mihajlo Zdravković, said, "We have already held talks with several airlines, and I must say there is interest”. The government reserves the right to add new routes of public interest without initiating a new tender, however, the value of the contract for additional services must not exceed 5% of the total value of the initial agreement, which totals 5.7 million euros for the entire three-year period (297.800 euros in 2019 and 2.7 million euros in both 2020 and 2021).
In the run-up to the new services, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has officially assigned Morava Airport its three-letter location identifier - KVO. Furthermore, the Serbian government has allocated 1.3 million euros in the 2020 state budget to undertake necessary preparatory work at Morava Airport for the construction of a second runway, which will be large enough to handle jet-engine aircraft without any limitations. Located in Central Serbia, Kraljevo’s Morava Airport was officially opened in late June. According to the Mayor of Kraljevo, Morava Airport will considerably contribute to accelerating the economic development of Kraljevo and many other nearby towns and municipalities.
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