PHOTOS: Air Serbia launches first domestic service

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Air Serbia today inaugurated flights between Belgrade and Niš, marking its first domestic operation since it rebranded in 2013, as well as the first domestic service in the country since the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006. With eighteen passengers on board the inaugural flight operated by the Airbus A319 aircraft (without media representatives on board), services will be maintained four times per week, twice each on Thursdays and Saturdays departing Belgrade, and on Fridays and Sundays leaving Niš. Tickets for the new service, which are being subsidised by the Serbian government, went on sale some ten days ago. The flights are primarily aimed at transfer passengers headed to or from the south-east Serbian city who will use Belgrade as their connecting point. Transfer passengers heading to Niš are required to pick up their luggage in Belgrade and check it again, while those flying out of Niš will have their baggage checked through to their final destination. Air Serbia is in the process of launching a slew of new routes from Niš and Kraljevo. Earlier this week the carrier introduced operations from the two cities to Istanbul, while services from Niš to Cologne were launched today/ In addition flights to Ljubljana will be restored this afternoon after almost two years.