Turkish Airlines to launch two new Belgrade routes
Turkish Airlines will commence flights from Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport and Izmir to Belgrade this winter season. The carrier plans to introduce services from Istanbul’s second airport on December 2, and from Izmir starting February 16 of next year. Flights will run four and two times per week respectively. Tickets are expected to go on sale in the coming weeks. The development comes as a result of a recent agreement between aviation stakeholders from Serbia and Turkey concerning new routes, frequencies and capacities. The new services will become Turkish Airlines’ third and fourth from the Serbian capital, complementing Istanbul and Ankara, with the latter operated by its regional brand AnadoluJet.
Air Serbia is expected to codeshare on the new services. In addition to the new routes, Turkish Airlines will increase frequencies between Ankara and Belgrade, from two to four per week starting December 2. The new flights from Sabiha Gokcen Airport will be run by AnadoluJet and will go head-to-head against Pegasus Airlines’ four weekly rotations. It will operate each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Services from Izmir face no direct competition and will be maintained on Thursdays and Sundays. It is unclear whether this route will be served by AnadoluJet branded aircraft or Turkish Airlines itself. It will mark the first time Izmir and Belgrade have been linked with a scheduled nonstop air service.
Air Serbia is also set to unveil new routes in Turkey in the coming months as part of its cooperation agreement with Turkish Airlines. The Serbian carrier recently scheduled additional flights to Istanbul’s main airport for this winter, which it will serve seventeen times per week. It will increase frequencies between the two cities to 21 weekly from next summer season. Although Turkish Airlines has been attempting to strike an agreement over the launch of scheduled flights from Antalya to Belgrade, it is believed no agreement has been reached so far. Antalya is operated over the summer through charter flights which run up to nine times per day during the peak holiday travel period.
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