Air Serbia to renew CRJ900 lease
Air Serbia will lease a Bombardier CRJ900 jet for a second consecutive year this summer with more aircraft expected to enter the fleet shortly. The 88-seat plane will join the Serbian carrier at the start of June and will be deployed on various routes. So far it has been scheduled on selected days on flights from Belgrade to Kiev, Helsinki, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik and Thessaloniki. Last year, the airline wet-leased the equipment from Regional Jet over a four-month period. The Serbian carrier previously said, "The Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft offers excellent performance and passenger comfort levels and is a great match for network expansion".
It hasn’t been specified from whom the airline will lease the CRJ900 this year, although it is expected to be through a wet-lease arrangement once again. Air Serbia is also expected to add two ATR72-500 turboprops to its fleet over the coming months and is further tipped to lease a single-aisle Airbus aircraft. The fleet expansion will complement its announced, but yet-to-be officially unveiled, network expansion, which will include up to ten new destinations. Yesterday, the carrier scheduled and put on sale the first of its new routes - from Kraljevo to Thessaloniki. Services will operate on a seasonal basis, twice per week, each Tuesday and Saturday,.starting March 31. Further flight details can be found here.
Air Serbia is currently in the process of recruiting captains and first officers for ATR72, Boeing 737-300 and Airbus A320-familly aircraft. Furthermore, it is also seeking new cabin crew members in both Belgrade and Niš in the lead-up to its expansion. The airline’s overall capacity is expected to grow some 18% in 2020. The company noted it was “extremely positive, at least for us and our region, that 2020 will be great”. As a result, the carrier said it was becoming “one of the fastest growing airlines in South Eastern Europe”.
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