Air Serbia wet-leases second Boeing jet
Air Serbia has wet-leased a second 148-seat Boeing 737-700 aircraft from Czech carrier Smartwings. The eighteen-year-old jet, registered OK-SWW, joined the fleet last Friday and has since been deployed on charter services from Belgrade to Rhodes, Chania and Antalya, as well as scheduled destinations such as Tirana, Dusseldorf, Istanbul and Frankfurt. The aircraft is currently filed to operate flights until at least the end of the month. The Serbian carrier has been wet-leasing another Smartwings B737-700 since June, which has been primarily utilised on charter flights. as well as a select number of scheduled services to Albania, Italy, Germany and Montenegro. The aircraft will operate on behalf of Air Serbia until September 26.
Air Serbia and Smartwings have concluded an ACMI lease agreement, meaning the Czech carrier is providing aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance. Smartwings is the Czech Republic’s largest airline group, dominating the country’s aviation market. The carrier has vast experience in ACMI, wet-leasing aircraft and crew to airlines in France, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over the summer, as well as Canada in winter. It is also the owner of the country’s national carrier Czech Airlines and one of the largest leisure operators in Central Europe. Its fleet consist of over forty jets.
Air Serbia’s active fleet now comprises of nineteen aircraft, including five ATR72s, ten Airbus A319 jets, one A320, one A330 and two Boeing 737-700s which are on wet-lease. One of the carrier’s eleven A319s has been grounded since early November 2020. The airline disbanded its dedicated charter brand Aviolet earlier this year after retiring its last three remaining Boeing 737-300 aircraft. The carrier currently maintains scheduled operations to over thirty destinations and is running over 1.000 charter flights this summer, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. “In comparison, we operated 299 summer charters in 2020, while we already have more flights than we operated in 2019, or before the coronavirus pandemic, even though that year was a record breaker for us on all fronts”, Air Serbia previously said.
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