Vueling to resume Zagreb, suspend Belgrade service for 2020

Spanish low cost carrier Vueling will be resuming the majority of its operations to Croatia in the coming two weeks, albeit at a significantly reduced volume, while its seasonal service to Belgrade has been suspended for the remainder of the year and will be restored in 2021. The carrier restored international operations just two weeks ago.

The budget airline will resume up to four weekly operations between Rome and Split starting tomorrow, while services from the Italian capital to Dubrovnik will follow suit on July 15. They are set to run three times per week and increase during August. Several days beforehand, on July 13, Vueling will resume three weekly flights from its main hub in Barcelona to Dubrovnik and on July 14 to Split. Seasonal services from the Catalan capital to Zagreb will restart on August 1 and run once per week, each Saturday, increasing to two weekly during the month of October. Operations between Barcelona and Zadar have been suspended indefinitely. Vueling, faces competition on its flights from Rome to Dubrovnik and Split from Croatia Airlines. On the other hand, the Croatian carrier is yet to schedule its seasonal service from Zagreb to Barcelona.

The low cost airline has suspended its seasonal two weekly service to Belgrade this year. It plans to restore operations between the two cities on March 30, 2021 and has already put tickets on sale. It comes at a time when competition is heating up on the route. Air Serbia launched two weekly operations to Spain’s second largest city last year, quickly growing the service to three weekly. It plans on resuming the flights following the covornavirus Covid-19 hiatus on July 13 with two weekly operations. On the other hand, Wizz Air will be inaugurating its new route between the two cities on July 18. Although it will also maintain flights twice per week, it will offer the most capacity, with the route to be served by the Airbus A321 jet.

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