Air Serbia temporarily suspends two routes
Air Serbia is temporarily suspending a further two routes in its network during the slower winter period. The carrier will halt flights from Belgrade to both Hanover and Hamburg. The last service to Hanover will run on January 26, after which operations will be suspended until the start of the summer season, on March 31. Furthermore, the airline will temporarily suspend its Hamburg service for one month, with the last flight scheduled for January 29. Operations on the route will resume on March 4. February is considered the slowest month in the aviation industry.
The suspensions will result in Belgrade temporarily loosing flights to Hannover, while Hamburg will continue to be served by Wizz Air three times per week during the affected period. Air Serbia currently maintains operations to both Hannover and Hamburg twice per week over the winter season. Operations to Hannover were introduced in 2022, while Hamburg was inaugurated in May of last year. It initially launched flights to Hamburg on a year-round basis in 2016 but later downgraded the service to summer seasonal operations, which ran until 2019, after which they were discontinued until last year. Since the start of the winter season, all services to Hanover were operated with the Embraer fleet, bar one which was maintained with the Airbus A319 aircraft, while Hamburg saw a range of different equipment deployed including the Embraers, A319s. A320s, and Boeing 737-800s.
As previously reported, Air Serbia is also suspending flights to Naples, Izmir, Salzburg, Cologne, Gothenburg and Ankara until the start of the 2024 summer season on March 31. With the addition of Hannover and Hamburg, three of the suspended routes will be on the German market. In 2023, Germany was Air Serbia’s largest market, based on the volume of provided capacity, wth over half a million seats allocated between the two countries. Despite the temporary suspensions, the Serbian carrier has said it plans to grow in the coming period. It has announced the launch of a new service to Mostar, commencing in late April, and has said, “We have plans to launch new routes between Belgrade and China [in 2024] and we are working diligently on this. Apart from China, we will also try to add some new cities in Europe and the region to the network and increase the frequency of daily and weekly flights to our most popular existing destinations”.
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