New York remains Podgorica’s busiest unserved route
New York was Podgorica Airport’s busiest unserved route, both during the last normal year for commercial aviation in 2019, as well as in the pandemic-stricken 2020. Almost 30.000 people either originated or departed between Podgorica and New York City’s airports in 2019, according to global data provider OAG. It makes it one of the busiest markets for flights to the Big Apple in the former Yugoslavia. New York was also the busiest unserved route for airports in Zagreb, Skopje and Pristina, however, the Montenegrin capital had more indirect passengers to the largest city in the United States than either of the three.
On Podgorica's busiest unserved route, Air Serbia dominated as the largest feeder airline, based on 2019 data, transporting 12.285 travellers between the two cities, or 41.6% of all traffic. It was followed by Turkish Airlines and Austrian. Overall, over 49.000 people flew between Podgorica and the United States in 2019 under a single ticket. Air Serbia was the busiest feeder carrier accounting for 29% of all passengers carried. It was followed by Turkish Airlines with a 20% market share, Montenegro Airlines, which shuttled passengers to points in Europe for onward connections, with an 11% share, as well as Alitalia and Austrian with a 9% share each.
There have been attempts to address the lack of nonstop flights between Montenegro and the United States in the past. In March 1999 Montenegro Airlines applied to operate nonstop passenger and cargo flights between Tivat and New York. At the time, it concluded a wet-lease agreement for a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft from Italy's Air Europe, which has since gone bankrupt, in order to run the transatlantic service. However, within weeks, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia commenced, and the application was rejected. With the launch of its New York service in 2016, Air Serbia has managed to scoop up the majority of passengers heading from both Podgorica to New York but also the United States.
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