Air Serbia strengthens EX-YU network
Air Serbia will be adding frequencies to several cities in the former Yugoslavia this coming summer season, with Ljubljana, Zagreb and Skopje to see extra flights while the Croatian market will have the most capacity overall. The Serbian carrier will maintain the additional frequencies it introduced to Ljubljana following the collapse of Adria Airways in late September, with the carrier to run seventeen weekly flights between the Serbian and Slovenian capitals, up from twelve for the majority of the 2019 summer season. Operations will be increased to Zagreb as well, with services to operate thirteen times per week, up from eleven. Furthermore, frequencies to Skopje will grow from per week last summer to thirteen weekly rotations this year.
Seasonal flights to Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Pula in Croatia will all resume in 2020 with the same number of flights, however, services to Rijeka will commence over a month ahead of the rest, in late April. Air Serbia will be offering over 170.000 seats between Belgrade and its Croatian destinations next summer season. In December, the airline said it was “extremely positive, at least for us and our region, that 2020 will be great”. It added, “We are planning an 18% increase in seats and we will announce ten new destinations”. Further afield, the carrier will increase frequencies to Barcelona, Larnaca, Madrid, Tirana and Prague.
The Serbian Minister for Finance, Siniša Mali, who in the past served as the Chairman of the airline’s Supervisory Board, previously said, “Our goal is to eventually fly twice daily to all cities in the region but before we do that we need to connect the last city in the former Yugoslavia that we do not fly to yet - Pristina”. A political and public opinion polling agency, which is said to be close to Serbia’s ruling party, recently started conducting a survey to gage public opinion on the resumption of flights between Belgrade and Pristina. The Serbian government formed a task force for the "normalisation of air travel in the Balkans" in 2017 with its main objective being the resumption of services between the two cities, however, no concrete results have been achieved since.
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