UPDATED MARCH 10
The 2009 summer season starts on Sunday, Mach 29. The national carrier of Montenegro will not include any major changes to its scheduling when compared to its winter season operations. Most interestingly the carrier will cut capacity from Podgorica to its key market – Serbia. Montenegro Airlines will operate 22 weekly flights from the country’s capital to Belgrade compared to 26 this winter. Instead, capacity will be increased from Tivat to Belgrade (from 14 weekly flights to 22). Flights from Tivat to Milan will be discontinued due to poor passenger figures on this line. Other services will stay the same with no or small increases in frequencies. Montenegro Airlines will operate 3 weekly flights to Vienna from Podgorica while it will code share with Austrian Airlines under flight number YM4501 the other 4 days of the week. It will also code share to Ljubljana with Adria Airways (with some flights operated by Montenegro Airlines and some by Adria). In its preliminary schedule the airline has not included its Tivat to Niš service which was operated last year during the summer.
Montenegro Airlines will receive its second Embraer ERJ195 aircraft in May this year. The airline will commence its regular summer charter flights from May and they will operate until the end of September. Despite announcements that the carrier will start new flights to Copenhagen, Priština, Skopje and Sarajevo they have not been listed in the summer schedule.
Below you can see the frequencies and aircraft types that Montenegro Airlines will operate during the summer in comparison to the winter 2008/09 period.
| Destination | Frequency (winter 2008/09) | Frequency (summer 2009) | Aircraft type (winter 2008/09) | Aircraft type (summer 2009) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgrade | 25 | 22 | F100 and ERJ195 | F100 and ERJ195 |
| Ljubljana | 2 | 3 | F100 and ERJ195 | F100 and ERJ195 |
| Vienna | 2 | 3 | F100 | F100 |
| Zurich | 2 | 3 | F100 | F100 |
| Rome | 3 | 3 | F100 | F100 |
| Paris | 2 | 2 | F100 | F100 |
| Milan | 2 | SUSPENDED | F100 | SUSPENDED |
| Moscow | 1 | 3 | ERJ195 | ERJ195 |
| Frankfurt | 4 | 5 | F100 and ERJ195 | F100 and ERJ195 |
Flights from Tivat:
| Destination | Frequency (winter 2008/09) | Frequency (summer 2009) | Aircraft type (winter 2008/09) | Aircraft type (summer 2009) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgrade | 14 | 22 | F100 | F100 |
| London-Gatwick | 3 | 3 | ERJ195 | ERJ195 |
| Copenhagen | - | 1 | - | F100 |
| Moscow | 2 | 3 | ERJ195 | ERJ195 |
* All frequencies above are weekly. The timetable is subject to change and if there are any changes it will be updated.
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