Aegean outlines EX-YU service resumption
Greece’s Aegean Airlines plans to resume all of its destinations in the former Yugoslavia between July and August, as it starts rebuilding its network out of Athens. Frequencies on a number of routes will be decreased compared to last year. The airline will first reinstate operations to Belgrade and Zagreb on July 1, with four and two weekly rotations respectively. This will be followed by the resumption of its Dubrovnik service, starting July 2 with four weekly flights. The carrier will reintroduce three weekly operations to Split on July 7. All of the aforementioned destinations will be run with a mix of Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. Furthermore, two weekly flights to Belgrade and one weekly to Dubrovnik throughout July remain closed for booking at this point.
On August 1, Aegean Airlines will make its return to Skopje through its subsidiary Olympic Air. Operations will be maintained three times per week with Dash 8 turboprop aircraft. Several days later, on August 3, two weekly services to Podgorica will restart with the Dash. As previously reported, Aegean has discontinued its seasonal service to Sarajevo. In early March, the airline informed the airport’s management it would not be going ahead with the seasonal route in 2020. Flights between the two cities were launched last year and were to restart twice per week at the end of May. All of the abovementioned dates and frequencies are tentative and subject to change.
Aegean has already resumed mainland domestic flights in Greece, as well as services to Crete, with the rest of the islands to follow next week, before a gradual reopening to European destinations, starting with Munich, Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich. Service to and from Brussels, the only not to be suspended during the height of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, will also be increased, the airline said. The Star Alliance member suspended almost all international operations on March 26. It expects to restore around 50% of its network by September under a “best case scenario” its Chairman said.
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