Air Serbia to add two aircraft in 2020
Air Serbia plans to grow its fleet by another two aircraft in 2020, while its overall capacity will increase 12% during the first quarter of next year. Speaking at the CAPA World Aviation Outlook Summit, the airline’s General Manager for Commercial and Strategy, Jiri Marek, said the company was undergoing a journey from a “steady evolution to almost revolution”, adding it was one of the fastest growing carriers in South East Europe. Mr Marek did not specify the aircraft type Air Serbia will be adding next year. In 2019 it introduced a ninth Airbus A319 to its fleet and wet-leased a Bombardier CRJ900 over the summer months. The airline will require additional aircraft in the coming period with new routes planned for 2020 from three airports in the country.
Mr Marek emphasised that one of the airline’s main goals over the year was to increase its overall average cabin load factor. “In its move from state-owned to hybrid, Air Serbia has achieved a turnaround by October and recorded an 80% load factor. People thought it was a joke when we said we wanted to achieve that, but we spent the whole summer believing in it and executing”, Mr Marek said. He added, “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 also plans to grow its charter traffic in 2020 following a record year. In addition to the recently announced leisure flights to Morocco, which are due to commence in late March, Air Serbia will, for the first time, deploy its wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft on charter services. The airline will utilise the 254-seat jet on charters to Palermo in mid-February, as well as to Genova in mid-March. In 2018, Air Serbia ran 958 charter services and carried 223.000 passengers. In 2019, the number of charters have grown to over 1.000.
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