Air Serbia plans more new routes for 2022
Air Serbia will further expand its network out of Belgrade after unveiling its initial set of new destinations for the summer of 2022, which include Valencia, Bari, Palma de Mallorca and Rijeka. Several new additions out of the Serbian capital are to be announced in the coming weeks, complementing the abovementioned routes, as well as the carrier’s new seasonal services from Niš to Athens, and from Kraljevo to Tivat, which are to be launched this June. “In the following period, we will continue to develop in that direction, and we look forward to introducing more new routes”, Air Serbia’s Head of Sales, Boško Rupić, said this week.
The Serbian carrier has launched flights from Belgrade to Oslo, Rostov-on-Don and Geneva since the start of the pandemic, although the latter has been terminated. In the summer of 2020, the airline was to commence operations to Amman, Florence, Lviv, and Chisinau, in addition to Geneva and Rostov. Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, recently said the company plans to continue developing its hub and spoke model, linking the region with the rest of Europe, and will put a greater emphasis on Central Europe as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. “Prior to the pandemic, we announced Lviv as a new destination in our network. We are carefully looking at potential routes in Bulgaria and Romania. Prior to Covid-19, Chisinau was also considered, so we will continue this regional development”, Mr Marek said. He added, “As for Poland, we would most likely be interested in launching our own service from Belgrade to one of the airports in the south of the country, perhaps to Krakow”, Mr Marek said.
In the pre-pandemic year of 2019, Lisbon was Belgrade Airport’s busiest unserved route on the continent, followed by Cologne, Manchester, Bologna, Trieste, Malaga, Krakow, Valencia, Dublin, Luxembourg, Catania, and Vilnius. Since then, services to Luxembourg have been introduced by Luxair and are codeshared by its Serbian counterpart, while services to Valencia will be launched by Air Serbia in April. The Serbian carrier has also outlined it will resume operations from Belgrade to Madrid, Venice and Nice, which have been suspended since the start of the pandemic, as well as increase its frequencies to Rome and Milan to pre-pandemic levels. In addition, it plans to restore seasonal services to Rostov-on-Don introduced last year.
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