Air Serbia boosts operations as travel restrictions ease
Air Serbia is increasing operations to a number of destinations in the coming period as countries begin lifting entry requirements for Serbian citizens. The airline is boosting flights to Switzerland, Cyprus, Turkey and the United States, with frequencies in some cases outstripping pre-pandemic levels. Services to Ljubljana are also likely to grow in the coming weeks after the Slovenian government placed Serbia on its green list today, lifting all entry requirements. Air Serbia will be adding extra frequencies between Belgrade and Zurich for a total of eighteen per week, equalling the number of rotations to those operated last summer. Similarly, its competitor, Swiss, is also increasing its frequencies on the route to twelve per week.
Just days after the Cypriot government lifted entry requirements for Serbian citizens, Air Serbia is doubling its operations to Larnaca to four per week. In response, Wizz Air has brought forward the resumption of its flights between Belgrade and the Cypriot city, which will now be restored on October 15 rather than October 28. Last week, the Serbian carrier increased its frequencies to Istanbul from five to seven weekly, outstripping pre-pandemic levels, and will maintain five weekly flights to New York in October, up from two per week the same month last year. The airline recently announced it would also extend charter flights to Turkey into October and to Egypt throughout November due to strong demand.
Air Serbia has previously said that its recovery will largely depend on ongoing entry restrictions and requirements for Serbian nationals. “The challenge for us at the moment are the closed borders and travel restrictions in our main markets in Western Europe, which greatly restricts the movement of people, and so our flights, too”, the carrier’s Head of Trade and Corporate Sales, Boško Rupić, said. Borders to most European Union member states are currently closed to most Serbian citizens, with the block to discuss the possibility of reopening them at a meeting this week. However, some EU member states have eased or removed all travel restrictions over the past month, including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania and Italy.
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