Air Serbia to unveil new routes

Air Serbia is expected to announce the addition of new destinations to its network soon, after previously unveiling sixteen new points, to be launched from March of next year. They include Budapest, Ankara, Catania, Izmir, Heraklion, Hamburg, Chicago, Gothenburg, Cologne, Naples, Florence, Marseille, Chania, Rhodes, Corfu and Palermo. Out of the newly announced routes, Cologne, Izmir and Catania are the busiest currently unserved from the Serbian capital. Popular European destinations which remain unserved from Belgrade, but have a high volume of indirect traffic, include Lisbon, Manchester, Yerevan, Krakow and Vilnius.

Air Serbia is expected to add a total of 21 new routes to its network next summer, according to the country’s Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, with sixteen already announced. The airline is likely to include destinations in the Middle East and North Africa as well, with the resumption of flights to Tel Aviv and Cairo expected following a three-year hiatus. To complement its return to the Middle East, the carrier’s CEO, Jiri Marek, recently said, “We will be announcing one additional big codeshare from the Middle East area in the upcoming period”. Other destinations in the Middle East region with a high volume of indirect traffic but no nonstop flights from Belgrade include Kuwait City, Tehran, Muscat, Amman, Bahrain, and Beirut, while those in North Africa comprise of Tunis, Monastir, Algiers and Casablanca. 

Commenting on the carrier's future plans, Mr Marek previously said, “In 2022 we will be slightly below the numbers from 2019, likely ending up at 91% of pre-pandemic levels. In 2023 Air Serbia will definitely surpass 2019 levels and from then on, we aim to grow between 10% and 15% every year”. He added, “We are a smaller regional airline and want to grow with the market in a profitable and sustainable way. During the coronavirus crisis we saw that our market proved to be relatively stable, and it is recovering fast. This gives us some confidence that the market here is growing at a faster pace organically than what was expected before. On top of that, the propensity of travel per capita is growing faster in Serbia than in the rest of Europe”.

 

Destination	Launch date
Budapest	13.03.2023
Ankara	28.03.2023
Catania	14.04.2023
Izmir	15.04.2023
Heraklion	28.04.2023
Hamburg	15.05.2023
Chicago	17.05.2023
Gothenburg	18.05.2023
Cologne	18.05.2023
Naples	19.05.2023
Florence	20.05.2023
Marseille	20.05.2023
Chania	04.06.2023
Rhodes	05.06.2023
Corfu	09.06.2023
Palermo	14.06.2023

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