Air Serbia reaches 57% of pre-pandemic passengers levels
Air Serbia carried over 1.5 million passengers from January up until the end of last week, an improvement of 76% compared to the total number of travellers handled during the whole of 2020 when the figure stood at 899.877. However, the passenger levels are still down 43% on the pre-pandemic 2019, which was Air Serbia’s busiest. Back then it welcomed 2.81 million travellers as it added 23 new routes to its network. The airline’s cabin load factor since the start of the year has averaged at 66%, which is above the European norm. In 2019, loads stood at 73%. The airline’s passenger share at Belgrade Airport now amounts to 51%, up from 45.6% two years ago.
Air Serbia has scheduled its busiest December since 2019, despite travel restrictions and worries over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The carrier has scheduled some 1.764 flights this month, up 116% on December of last year. It will increase frequencies on a number of its routes from mid-December until mid-January and will also restore limited operations to its summer seasonal destination of Rostov-on-Don, on December 24 and December 26, as well as the first week of January. In addition, this month, Air Serbia will operate charters to Hurghada on December 23 and 29, Sharm el Sheikh on December 24 and 30, as well as to Dubai on December 12, 19 and 26.
Commenting on the airline’s operational results, Air Serbia’s General Manager for Commercial and Strategy, Jiri Marek, said, “We are proud of the results we have achieved, despite the changing travel restrictions. This year was more successful than the last, and let’s hope this trend continues in the future as well. Our goal is to fully recover and get back to 2019 levels, and we are on a good path in this regard. Still, we are aware that the situation with the coronavirus pandemic is getting worse, and we are cautiously planning for the upcoming period, relying primarily on our flexibility and ability to quickly adapt to changing circumstances on the market”.
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