Air Serbia plans to maintain strong growth in 2020
Air Serbia has handled over 2.5 million passengers in 2019 and is on course to register its busiest year since its relaunch in 2013. Last Friday, the airline surpassed its 2018 end-of-year result, welcoming 2.512.324 travellers on board its aircraft from its Belgrade base alone. The carrier also maintains ten routes from Niš Constantine the Great Airport. “The entire Air Serbia team is responsible for this exceptional result. With hard work, dedication, strategic planning and timely recognition of opportunities in the market, we are setting new records. The ending year was marked by growth that has never been stronger and we are planning to continue with this tempo in the future as well”, Air Serbia’s General Manager for Commercial and Strategy, Jiri Marek, said. The airline is expected to overtake its busiest year, in 2016, when it handled 2.62 million passengers.
The Serbian carrier plans to further grow its destination network this month. This week it is expected to schedule and put on sale flights between Kraljevo and Vienna from mid-December, while it will also resume services from Belgrade to Istanbul on December 11 following a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. It follows on from the nine new routes introduced from the Serbian capital this summer and twelve from Niš, with the latter being fully subsidised by the state. This October, Air Serbia’s passenger numbers increased 13.6%, while its November figures grew 25%. “We are working hard on making the next twelve months even better for our guests. A solid foundation and a strong wind in our sails have been provided by these results. We have continued to post exceptionally good operating results from the summer season into October and November, which were previously considered as slower months of the year”, the company said.
Air Serbia’s CEO, Duncan Naysmith, noted, “A year ago, when we commemorated the fifth anniversary of the launch of our operations under the name of Air Serbia, we had twelve very challenging months ahead of us. From that perspective, our plans might have appeared exceptionally ambitious, and some of them even extremely difficult. However, nonetheless we succeeded”. He added, “Today, we operate flights to a total of sixty destinations - half as many more than a year ago. This winter we have over 100 additional flights per week compared to the previous winter season. We’ve also introduced, and continue to introduce, numerus technical innovations that will ease our business and ensure our daily operations run smoother and with far greater efficiency”.
0 Response to "Air Serbia plans to maintain strong growth in 2020"
Post a Comment