Air Serbia schedules 35 routes for upcoming winter
Air Serbia is in the process of finalising its 2021/2022 winter season operations, which begin on October 31 and run until March 26, 2022, with the airline currently scheduling 35 routes, 7.732 flights and 869.588 seats for the five-month period. These do not include charter services. However, additional modifications to the schedule are expected in the coming weeks. The figures indicate the airline will up its operations by 83%, while capacity will increase 80.4% compared to the previous winter season, which was heavily impacted by travel bans and lockdowns across the continent. Based on its existing schedule, which is subject to change in the coming weeks, the airline will serve 34 cities from Belgrade, one from Niš, while no flights have been filed out of Kraljevo, which saw seasonal operations to Thessaloniki over the summer.
Air Serbia will downgrade its year-round service between Belgrade and Geneva to seasonal operations. The route was launched last summer, competing directly against easyJet. The airline is currently studying whether to run its new service to Rostov-on-Don over the winter as well and upgrade its seasonal operations to St Petersburg to year-round flights, in response to strong demand on the Russian market. It has so far scheduled services to Moscow and Krasnodar. At this point, the carrier will have no scheduled flights to the Middle East and North Africa, as it is yet to set a date for the resumption of flights to Cairo and Tel Aviv.
The airline’s General Manager for Commercial and Strategy, Jiri Marek, recently said, “We are aware that the situation with the coronavirus pandemic is deteriorating in certain countries, as well as that travel restrictions are being reimposed more frequently. For that reason, we will make plans for the coming period with a dose of caution, focusing on carefully observing the developing situation, and reacting quickly in accordance with the existing measures and demand on the market”. Serbia was recently placed on the European Union’s red list, recommending member states to bar non-essential travel from the country. However, those that have done so, have imposed such rules only on individuals who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus with jabs recognised by the European Medicines Agency or, in some cases, the World Health Organisation.
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