Air Serbia reinstates Sochi launch plans
Air Serbia has reinstated plans to introduce flights between Belgrade and Sochi this summer, over a month after discontinuing ticket sales for the service and removing the city from its line-up of new routes. Operations are now set to commence on June 12, instead of the initially scheduled June 2, and will run twice per week, departing Belgrade each Friday and Sunday, instead of the originally planned Thursdays and Sundays. The carrier will deploy its Airbus A319 aircraft on the route. Flights have been timed so as to connect from Sochi to Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Dusseldorf, London, Ljubljana, Milan, Paris, Prague, Podgorica, Rome, Tivat, Venice and Zagreb.
Ticket sales for flights between Belgrade and Sochi were restored yesterday. When the route was initially scheduled in January, the carrier said, “The planned commencement of flights to Sochi is the result of the significance of the Russian market for Air Serbia and the fact that this tourist destination is underserved with direct international flights. Thanks to the extremely successful performance of the Krasnodar and Rostov on Don routes, we have positioned ourselves as one of the airlines with the largest market share between Russia and the Balkans”. Air Serbia will inaugurate flights from Belgrade to Sochi next month alongside Trieste, Lyon, Hanover, Bari, Bologna, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Palma and Rijeka, as well as from Niš to Athens and from Kraljevo to Tivat.
In addition to Sochi, Air Serbia is maintaining eight weekly flights to Moscow and three weekly services to St Petersburg this summer. Its seasonal operations to Krasnodar and Rostov on Don have not resumed so far this summer season as the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsiya, has constantly extended flight bans across eleven airports in central and southern Russia since February. The ban has been implemented due to safety concerns in the area following the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Currently in force until May 19, the ban is expected to be extended further. Air Serbia has revised its preliminary service resumption to Krasnodar for July 1 and to Rostov for July 3, however, this is subject to change.
Further details for the revised Belgrade - Sochi flights can be found here.
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