El Al to maintain Belgrade flights as travel bubble ends
The one-way travel bubble between Israel and Serbia, which saw a record number of flights between the two countries, has ended after mandatory quarantine was reintroduced for Israeli nationals returning from Belgrade as of this Monday. However, El Al will continue to maintain its service between Tel Aviv and the Serbian capital, introduced ten days ago. Frequencies will be reduced from the initially planned six weekly flights to two per week, each Thursday and Sunday. They will continue to operate with the Boeing 737-900 aircraft. Israir and Arkia, which also maintained flights between the two cities will temporarily suspend their operations, although both have tentatively scheduled their return to the city from next month.
Israeli carriers expect for travel restrictions to ease by mid-December. At this point, Israir plans to restore its operations to Belgrade on December 9 with five weekly rotations, with Arkia expected to follow suite. Air Serbia does not plan to resume flights between the two cities until March 29, 2021, which have been scheduled to run twice per week. Entry into Israel is not permitted to foreigners at the moment. Israeli citizens are now required to quarantine upon their return from most countries across the world, although Serbia remains one of the few not requiring quarantine or a negative PCR test for the majority of foreigners crossing its boarders.
This October saw a record number of flights between Israel and Serbia, with Belgrade being among the top ten most frequent destinations out of Tel Aviv, behind destinations in Greece. Similarly, it was the eighth most frequent route out of Belgrade, behind only Zurich, Podgorica, Tivat, Istanbul, Frankfurt and Paris. In order to return all its nationals before the introduction of new quarantine rules, the three Israeli carriers operated a total of eight flights to Belgrade this past Saturday.
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