Wizz Air delays Belgrade expansion by a month
Low cost carrier Wizz Air has delayed the stationing of a third aircraft and the launch of nine new routes from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport by a month, from July 16 to August 17 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty over travel restrictions. Operations to Salzburg, which launched last week, will continue to operate as scheduled along with all of Wizz Air's existing routes from Belgrade and Niš. Under the revised timetable, services to Hamburg, Turku and Cologne will commence on August 17, to Friedrichshafen, Lisbon and Barcelona on August 18, to Charleroi on August 19 and to Milan and Sandefjord on August 20. Both the operational days and frequencies remain unchanged.
Wizz Air’s Belgrade expansion will mark the budget carrier’s biggest to date from the Serbian capital and will include significant capacity expansion with the replacement of its two Airbus A320 aircraft, with the larger A321 and the stationing of another jet of its type, for a total of three. Air Serbia, which will compete directly against Wizz Air on several of the new routes, has introduced a new ”joker card” service, offering special discounted fares to and from Belgrade starting at 38 euros for passengers whose flights on other airlines have been cancelled to and from selected destinations, among which are Oslo and Milan.
Flights to Belgrade are being progressively restored by foreign carriers, with Aegean Airlines, Aeroflot, Austrian Airlines, Belavia, easyJet, Flydubai, Lufthansa, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Pegasus Airlines, Qatar Airways, Swiss, TAROM, Transavia, Turkish Airlines and Wizz Air all maintaining operations. They will be joined by Etihad Airways, Air France and LOT Polish Airlines later this month. Meanwhile, Air Serbia continues to rebuild its network from the Serbian capital with services to Madrid and Barcelona to be resumed next Monday and Tuesday respectively. The carrier will also introduce a new service to Oslo next Thursday.
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