KLM returns to Belgrade after three decades
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KLM has restored flights between Amsterdam and Belgrade after over thirty years, replacing its low cost subsidiary Transavia on the route. The Dutch carrier operated its inaugural service with the Boeing 737-700 aircraft, however, flights will usually be maintained by the 100-seat Embraer E190 jet. Services will initially run three times per week, increasing to daily from June 11. Speaking at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, KLM’s General Manager for Alps, Balkan and Central Europe, Thijs Komen, said, “I am delighted that despite existing circumstance we are launching new services to Belgrade today. It demonstrates KLM’s confidence in the Serbian market. I hope this new nonstop service between Belgrade and Amsterdam will serve as an optimistic symbol for the future and will offer the public additional opportunities to visit the world and meet with friends and family that live in other countries. I also hope that these flights will strengthen business ties between Serbia and the Netherlands”. KLM’s new Belgrade service will offer good transfer opportunism to Madrid, Dublin and Edinburgh. The carrier will compete directly against Air Serbia on the route.
KLM last operated flights to Belgrade prior to the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. The airline initially commenced flights to the city on October 1, 1931 when it served as a stop on its service from Amsterdam to Jakarta, then known as Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.
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