Ibiza will become Air Serbia’s sixth destination in Spain, complementing Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga and Plame de Mallorca. Mykonos will join Athens, Thessaloniki, Corfu, Chania and Heraklion in Greece for a total of seven destinations in the country, while Olbia becomes the ninth destination in Italy. The carrier also maintains operations to Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Naples, Bari, Palermo and Catania. Following the launch of the new destinations next summer, Belgrade Airport’s busiest unserved scheduled leisure destination based on indirect traffic flow will be Antalya, although it is served by Air Serbia on a charter basis, with the airline handling 116.287 passengers on the route last year. It is followed by Florence and Marseille, with both having been previously served by Air Serbia, as well as Bodrum, which also operates through charters.
Air Serbia’ CEO, Jiri Marek, said last week that leisure destinations have played an important role in shaping the carrier’s network in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. "We took the opportunity of capturing this demand by growing the company in the last two years by over 50% and opening 43 destinations, again predominantly driven by the leisure market. For example, in Spain, before Covid, we used to fly twice a week to Madrid and twice a week to Barcelona, and now we have seven weekly flights to Barcelona and four flights to Madrid per week, and fly to Valencia, Malaga and Palma. Air Serbia has proven to be very agile and flexible in reacting to any market opportunities".
And unfortunately they will start cutting summer increase soon because of crew shortage.
ReplyDeleteThey sure need to hire a lot more flight crews.
DeleteMore pilots*, they hired enough flight attendants in the last two years.
Delete@09:23 but they are keep leaving either for other airlines or changing job field completely.
DeleteRostering is their biggest complain about working for JU.
The new cabin crew management fired so many experienced flight attendants based on personal opinion and not merit this year, and many cabin seniors left because they are not satisfied with the women who is in charge of them from this January.
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I may even book a flight to Sardinia for next july, it's a beautiful island. Would like if they started Corsica, too.
ReplyDelete+1 Sardinia is a very interesting places. Great news there are flights there now
DeleteGrandiiii! my home airport is OLB, will buy for sure tickets now. Corsica is lovely too (isule surelle). Go to Olbia, get a 40 mins ferry and get to Corsica, is not expensive if you don't take a car
DeleteTour operators will book 90% of flight just as Catania and Palermo. Catania was much cheaper in august with travel agency then ticket on website + booking
DeleteI feel like they’re spreading themselves too thin. Much better to have more frequencies than these 1-2pw destinations
ReplyDeleteLeisure desinations are usually 2-3 pw. Exceptions are tourists mecca like BCN.
DeleteStill no news about restarting CAI?
ReplyDeleteSo much about "listening what president says".
DeleteBS.
So the president is talking BS?
DeleteYes, like the majority of politicians across the world. But it didn't stop freedom fighters here claiming the airline is taking orders from him.
DeleteBS is that people are saying how JU listens president.
DeleteBut, I think you understood it on the beginning.
Great destinations, bravo JU
ReplyDeleteHub and Spoke model is not reliable any more with all those crew, maintanance and plane issues helped with BEG''s poor support which is negative. On positive side, leisure market prooven strong and healthy and JU act promptly towards that oportunity.
ReplyDelete...and then you woke up and realized Air Serbia hub and spoke is doing great and growing. Now more than 40% of Air Serbia passengers are transfers.
DeleteIt's doing great with all those cancelations, crapy planes, TSN discontinued and ORD going 1pw. Dont get me wrong, it is stil alive but now the focus is on leisure when the money is. Which is goid for the revenue.
DeleteWhy not Cagliari??
ReplyDeleteWhy not why not …. Now you can fly directly to Sardinia, and rent a car to the south….people are never happy with them what get, only unhappy what’s they don’t get
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Isn’t the most popular tourist region in the south of Sardinia?
DeleteOlbia has the best beaches.
Delete10:37 got it right. Olbia region is much more expensive but the best sea is there. that's why fools like tim cook and leo di caprio go there instead of Pula (yes, there is a Pula also in Sardinia) not to say the south does not deserve a visit
DeleteSo, I'm completely weird to find South much much more attractive, calm and generally nice, spending every late summer there.
Deleteit's not weird. I am saying for me, as Sardinian, the best sea places are there. But people can also see the nuraghi, our ancestors that manage to build towers 3000 years ago. South is calmer as there is not 1.5 million italians going there from july to first week of September. If you go now to Olbia is full of austrians, germans and Poles with campers as it is easier for them to get access to Olbia port.
DeleteTenerife definitely isn't on their radar, so only W6 might consider it.
ReplyDeleteTenerife would be too long rotation.
DeleteJust like KZN.
DeleteYou are right. I think Tenerife would be much smarter move than Kazan.
DeleteAnonymous12:16
DeleteYes because Canarian diaspora has about 100k people living in Serbia unlike Russian diaspora...
@12:43
DeleteSerbs actually want to go to Tenerife. Not so much to Kazan.
Russians can try Air Russia or something.
Tired with all these stupid seasonal leisure destinations.
ReplyDeleteThey need to launch business and cargo-heavy year-round medium to high frequency routes such as:
- Cairo
- Tel Aviv
- Baku
- Yerevan
- Baghdad
- Erbil
- Tbilisi
- Delhi
... and many others.
This is not strategy but a lack of strategy.
Also, they've got 10 ATR but haven't launched ONE single new ATR destination, such as in Romania and other.
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DeleteWe do not care about Baku o, Yevram or whatever is on your list. More choices for our summer summer vacations is more then welcome.. Mykonos and Ibiza are great money makers and extremely popular tourist spots. Great choices JU.
DeleteThey make money on leisure routes. So I think they know better than you what to add. They certainly don't add destinations for your entertainment, as you are tired.
DeleteJU is becoming Aviolet...
DeleteAviolet was part of JU, nothing new.
DeleteAnd yes, they should follow this path because on these routes they earn much more money than on connecting flights from Cairo, Yerevan etc...
+1 @ 09:41
DeleteWhat exactly strategy are you talking about? Outlining a list of cities in unstable countries and those Serbia barely does any business with is a strategy? Man's out here bringing out Erbil and expecting us to take him seriously
DeleteWhat a list, and well developed business case to boot: business and cargo heavy year-round high frequency route like Erbil. Wow!
DeleteIn the old days, proposing such a list would be countered with a list of medications that person should be on. And frequent reminders not to skip taking them! Alas, those good old days are gone and we now try using empathy and guidance to help those poor souls. Here's my advice: give up and try meditation instead.
Nice to have. However JU should focus on year-round operations with potential for more than 2pw. 2pw should be LCC thing...
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha
DeleteBravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteTouristic island destinations are very important for any southern European airline. Seems like a good decision
ReplyDeleteIdemo dalje...
ReplyDeleteSo soon have they announced the summer 2025 routes? In Spain that's something more like Seville or Alicante
ReplyDeleteThey usually do it end of January.
DeleteWeren't people complaining here how they don't announce routes in advance and that it is bad. Now it is an issue when they announce them early?
DeleteYou can never make people happy.
DeleteIt is great that they announced these routes and others who don't like the fact JU opens new destinations will find some complaint, but only they could feel better. It has nothing to do with reality.
DeleteI don't think it's bad that they announce it soon (it's their money), I'm just surprised that it's at the beginning of November, when Air Serbia's policy is to do it later
Better sooner than later.
DeleteCongratulations Air Serbia!
ReplyDeleteThis winter we have OMO, CAN and NCE and next summer AHO, IBZ and JMK. Well done!
* OLB not AHO.
DeleteYou are right, but this morning it was mentioned here AHO. Thanks.
DeleteLoving Ibiza!
ReplyDeleteNext year:
ReplyDelete1. MAD 7x
2. BCN 12x
3. PMI 5x
4. VLC 3x
5. AGP 4x
6. IBZ 2x
7 Why not ALC?
DeleteToo close to VLC.
DeleteProbably more wet leases coming for the summer!
ReplyDeleteBetter to have more flights with wet leases planes than to have less flights with less planes.
DeleteFinally Mykonos !!!
ReplyDeleteToo bad they are not launching winter getaway destinations like Tenerife. I can drive to Montenegro or Greece if I want sea and sun in the summer. But during the winter, it's difficult.
ReplyDeleteMiroslav NY12:14
DeleteI see your point and I can partially agree. However, depending where in Serbia, but lets say you are in Belgrade and you want to to Budva its an 8h drive, to go to the nearest beach in Greece you need about 6 to 7 hours on a day without issues at the borders. Soooooo using a car to reach a beach even in the summer is hell.
@Miroslav NY12:14
DeleteCAI would be useful to visit during the winter the Red Sea Riviera.
Don’t get surprised if you see Italians inside, because those flights are hot, Palermo, Sardegna and very expensive from Northern Italy.
ReplyDeleteYes, JU is know for having lower costs than for example FR in BGY. Please.
Deleteknown*
DeleteBeautiful! :)
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