Summer 2023 - Air Serbia - EX-YU Aviation News

Air Serbia plans to operate its most ambitious summer network to date, with the airline introducing 21 new routes over the coming months. Coupled with the new destinations added over the winter, the figure grows to 25. In addition, the carrier will maintain the twenty new routes launched last summer, with exception to Trieste, although Air Serbia previously indicated seasonal flights to the Italian city would be restored. This summer, the Serbian carrier is strengthening operations on a number of routes by adding extra frequencies. Cities that will be served with the same number of flights or exceed pre-pandemic summer 2019 levels include Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, Cairo, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Larnaca, Ljubljana, London Heathrow, Madrid, Malta, Milan, New York, Paris, Podgorica, Prague, Rijeka, Rome, Sarajevo, Sofia, Skopje, Stockholm, Tirana, Tivat, Venice, Vienna, Zadar, Zagreb and Zurich.

Detailing the strategy behind its aggressive growth, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, recently said, “We proved in 2022 that growth was the right choice. We made it and it brought us back to profitability. We are making all the right steps this year in order to make it work and we will do it again next year. We learned during Covid that leisure and diaspora-driven routes were the least affected and the ones which came back really quickly. That was the main pillar of our expansion in 2022 and the majority of our routes were leisure and diaspora and they stayed over the winter. Our expansion this year is driven by the same factors and, on top of that, we are increasing connectivity, that is, densifying the existing network. I think the magical formula is the fast reaction. Everything is now happening last minute, so the faster you can react, the more benefit and opportunities you can unlock for yourself”. Despite turning a number of former charter destinations into scheduled ones, the airline will boast a strong charter season from both Belgrade and Niš. Its scheduled operations out of Niš and Kraljevo will remain unchanged this summer.

The 2023 summer season begins this Sunday and runs until October 28. Please note that the weekly frequencies listed below are preliminary and based on current availability in the GDS (Global Distribution System). Air Serbia is prone to making additional changes to its network mid-way through the season. The table below displays the peak weekly frequency on each route during the course of the summer season. Increases in frequencies on select destinations do not come into effect until mid-June. You can also review the summer season network that will be operated by Croatia Airlines here, as well as the one planned by Air Montenegro here.

Departing Belgrade