Airlines are further delaying the launch or completely cancelling new routes to cities across the former Yugoslavia, which were to commence between March and mid-June, as a result of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. At this point, only LOT Polish Airlines is still keeping the original dates it scheduled for new service launches in the region. These include flights from Budapest to Belgrade and Dubrovnik, as well as from Warsaw to Rijeka and Rzeszow to Zadar, although they are likely to be changed. The carrier has suspended all flights until May 15. Air Serbia, which has kept the original launch dates for some of its new routes from Belgrade, has again delayed the introduction of its new service between Kraljevo and Thessaloniki. It has now rescheduled the flights for May 9, although it remains unclear how it will perform these operations with commercial services from Serbia not to resume at least before May 18.
| Route | Original date | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Vienna - Zadar (Austrian) | MAR 29 | MAY 18 |
| Vienna - Dubrovnik | MAR 29 | MAY 10 |
| Vienna - Zadar (Lauda) | MAR 30 | MAY 08 |
| Paris - Dubrovnik | MAR 30 | JUN 01 |
| London Luton - Ljubljana | MAR 30 | MAY 07 |
| Poznan - Podgorica | MAR 30 | MAY 18 |
| Gdansk - Zadar | MAR 31 | CANCELLED |
| Kraljevo - Thessaloniki | MAR 31 | MAY 09 |
| Stockholm - Tivat | APR 01 | JUN 03 |
| Dublin - Podgorica | APR 02 | MAY 17 |
| Vienna - Banja Luka | APR 03 | MAY 08 |
| Hahn - Rijeka | APR 04 | MAY 16 |
| Paris Orly - Pula | APR 04 | JUN 06 |
| Nantes - Dubrovnik | APR 11 | JUN 06 |
| Athens - Split | APR 19 | JUL 08 |
| Brussels - Pula | APR 25 | JUN 10 |
| London Luton - Pula | APR 28 | MAY 07 |
| Kiev - Ljubljana | APR 30 | JUN 04 |
Norwegian Air Shuttle, which is to commence a new seasonal service from Stockholm to Tivat, is likely to suspend all of its routes in the former Yugoslavia if a key shareholders meeting on May 4 is successful. If it survives the crisis, Norwegian has warned that the bulk of its fleet would likely remain grounded over the next twelve months and that a full recovery would not take place until 2022, laying bare the scale of the crisis engulfing the airline industry. As part of a planned 1.2 billion US dollar debt-for-equity swap to try to ensure the low cost airline’s survival, Norwegian would suspend all short haul European routes, with exception to domestic flights within Norway, until April 2021.
| Route | Original date | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Zagreb - Sofia | MAY 01 | JUN 01 |
| Wroclaw - Zadar | MAY 01 | CANCELLED |
| Frankfurt - Tivat | MAY 01 | MAY 22 |
| Paris - Podgorica | MAY 01 | JUN 05 |
| Vilnius - Dubrovnik | MAY 02 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Riga | MAY 03 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Cork | MAY 03 | CANCELLED |
| Zagreb - Podgorica | MAY 03 | JUN 02 |
| Beuvais - Zadar | MAY 06 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Kaunas | MAY 06 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Bremen | MAY 07 | CANCELLED |
| Vilnius - Rijeka | MAY 07 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Liverpool | MAY 10 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Maastricht | MAY 11 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Aarhus | MAY 15 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Hamburg | MAY 15 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Toulouse | MAY 16 | CANCELLED |
| Doha - Dubrovnik | MAY 18 | CANCELLED |
| Manchester - Tivat | MAY 21 | JUN 18 |
| London Stansted - Tivat | MAY 21 | JUN 18 |
| Stuttgart - Belgrade | MAY 21 | JUN 02 |
| Izmir - Skopje | MAY 23 | CANCELLED |
| Tel Aviv - Ljubljana | MAY 23 | JUN 02 |
| London Stansted - Zadar | MAY 24 | JUN 17 |
| Manchester - Zadar | MAY 24 | JUN 17 |
| Qassim - Sarajevo | MAY 25 | MAY 27 |
| Monastir - Zagreb | MAY 27 | JUN 24 |
| Malmo - Split | MAY 30 | CANCELLED |
| Dubrovnik - Mykonos | MAY 30 | JUL 08 |
Without widespread testing for the coronavirus or a vaccine, airline travel is not expected to return to normal for months, or even years, to come. The new reality will likely be fewer flights on slimmed-down airlines that have laid off numerous employees and cut ties to many contractors. In addition, travellers may be required to have new documentation and health checks to board. The International Air Transportation Association (IATA) recently released the results of a survey in which 40% of recent passengers said they may wait at least six months after the outbreak is contained to travel again. Almost 70% said they may hold off on traveling until their personal finances have improved.
| Route | Original date | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Kiev - Zagreb | JUN 02 | JUL 21 |
| Belgrade - Amman | JUN 01 | JUN 04 |
| Belgrade - Chisinau | JUN 01 | JUN 07 |
| Belgrade - Lviv | JUN 01 | JUN 08 |
| Belgrade - Rostov-on-Don | JUN 02 | JUN 05 |
| Brussels - Ohrid | JUN 06 | JUN 13 |
| Kuwait City - Sarajevo | JUN 11 | JUL 25 |
| Podgorica - Lisbon | JUN 22 | JUL 06 |
| Vienna - Podgorica | JUL 03 | JUL 20 |
"Norwegian is likely to suspend all of its routes in the former Yugoslavia if a key shareholders meeting on May 4 is successful"
ReplyDeleteThis is quite big. It will leave a huge vacuum and perhaps a chance for ex-Yu airlines to improve their performance on the Scandinavian market.
It's a real shame. Norwegian is an excellent LCC.
DeleteJU and OU have quite a soft performance in Scandinavia so maybe it will help. Also JU should not have given up on launching OSL. They wouldn't have had any competition.
DeleteNordics are not densely populated and the population is spread out across a wide area. I am sure JU will launch Oslo to compensate for the loss of DY.
DeleteWell it's not like they will continue flying those routes if the meeting is unsuccessful.
DeleteYep these routes will be cut either way. The question is just if it will be forever or until 2021. But I think even if Norwegian survives for a year it will go bankrupt afterwards.
DeleteSame with other airlines in Europe. The world will never be the same after this artificially created virus.
DeletePlus artificially created panic.
Deletehaha here they are
DeleteExactly, never have we seen such a well coordinated media campaign before. But don't worry an expensive vaccine is coming, chips as well.
DeleteI think this is the largest misinformation campaign in history.
DeleteBergamo
DeleteThe world will be exactly the same or even worse. Except maybe for airlines... at first only.
Delete@10.52
DeleteHuh?
Could admin please remove these flat earth, conspiracy theories posts? Thank you.
DeleteBut why? We did not break any rules of the blog and the discussion has been more than civil. So the only reason why it would be removed is because you don't like it and that's mean and intolerant.
DeleteLet's talk about witches and horoscope then while we're at it.
DeleteAlways a pleasure to read frishki comments <3 <3
DeleteSpeaking of conspiracy theories, one of them says virus was created by enemies of airline blogs. As airlines stay grounded for a long time because of the virus, airline blogs will have nothing to write about so they will either shut down or start writing about oher topics like conspiracy theories. This is a ridiculous theory but to my surprise there are some sad examples things are moving in that direction.
DeleteI really don't understand what Air Serbia is playing at. They are now selling all tickets from May 9 knowing full well they can't fly before May 18.
ReplyDeleteI believe next week the government will bring forward airport reopening, in full coordination with Air Serbia so JU can fly for 10 days without any other airline. The government passed the measure that they can open the airport at any point from 1st of May.
DeleteAny fool buying such tickets helps the company to overcome the liquidity crisis. And governments allow this fraud otherwise they have to inject direct money to keep these companies alive.
DeleteAll of these will be cancelled in the end.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not all but 90% for sure.
Deletedoesnt look like that JU ll cancel them
DeleteZAG SOF is not happening this year, it will be officially removed from the system in ten days. IT sector here is overwhelmed.
Delete^ What about TGD?
DeleteTGD is going ahead because they can't terminate it without penalties ;)
DeleteOh I see :) thanks
Deletewhat penalties? o_0
DeleteIt's obviously subsidized by Podgorica.
Deleteyes but these are different times and i dont see a reason not to cancel that contract if there ever was one
DeleteYup for marketing purposes, whatever that means.
DeleteI work at BEG and from what I heard OU got a sum of money from the airport the same way JU got from VCE, for marketing and promotion of the route. That said, VCE never paid JU directly but they rather used that money for ad campaigns around Veneto. Mestre was full of JU billboards the first 12 months of JU in VCE. Seems like it paid off since the route was boosted last winter.
DeleteNow let's see if someone sees an OU billboard around TGD like they had them in BEG for example.
Someone asked about construction at BEG, work is out of the foundation, work is progressing much faster now. I think terminal will be ready for the winter season.
Didn't a Croatian minister or something go to Montenegro to negotiate these flights? Or am I confusing it with something. I wonder what's the point of throwing money at OU when there is no O&D demand and OU doesn't offer any connections on the way back.
DeleteSomething tells me Dubrovnik - Mykonos ain't happening this year.
ReplyDeleteWell it seems Volotea still believes it's going to happen. They did move the launch by two months though.
DeleteBut it's a flight for people arriving on cruisers. And that definitely isn't happening this summer.
DeletePity Kuwait Airways delayed their flights by over a month to Sarajevo. It means they will be flying to SJJ for just a month and a half.
ReplyDeleteAt least they didn't cancel it altogether.
DeleteFlyBosnia will start flying on the Sarajevo - Kuwait City route from May 25th. This delay is a good thing for them. But I hope that next summer, Kuwait Airways will fly from May to October.
DeleteSo Easy Jet rescheduled Luton - Ljubljana fro 7th of May even though airport will be closed until at least the 12th.
ReplyDeletePeople have to realize that airlines need liquidity and need to sell tickets, even if they have to cancel those flights. They will compensate you in some months but they need money right now.
DeleteKiev - Ljubljana June 4th?
DeleteOf course impossible.
Love that Austrian isn't giving up on Vienna - Zadar. And still plans to fly it daily.
ReplyDeleteThe route will probably (unfortunately) be gone once they publish their preliminary flight resumption schedule.
DeleteThere are bigger chances of OS going bankrupt than that route being flown.
DeleteDon't get why Wizz moved VIE-TGD.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they don't see the demand before that date?
DeleteThanks for the updates. Good way of keeping on top of what's still scheduled and not, at least on paper.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteJust informed by British Airways that LJU to Heathrow cancelled in first part of June. August Heathrow to LJU flight still showing and still booking as at today.
DeleteLH, LX and OS have cancelled all flights to BEG during May.
ReplyDeleteI would like to place this here so that all those who attack ex-YU politicians for making comments about aviation can see. Now we have the same happening in highly developed, rich and fancy Austria. Vienna is going to throw billions at the rotting corpse that is Austrian Airlines. Politics and aviaiton go hand in hand everywhere, not only ex-YU.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.airliners.de/haben-interessen-kurz-lufthansa-verhandlungen-fokus-wien/55128
Why always the extreme OS / Austria bashing? Same is done by Holland, France, Germany, UK and Switzerland. Plus probably dozens of more countries that I don't know of at the moment.
DeleteMy flight with BA from LJU to LHR in June has just been cancelled. I guess they won't be flying to LJU this year.
ReplyDeleteWhat will you do? Take U2 instead?
DeleteUnfortunately, schedule of the article is already outdated.
DeleteAir Dolomiti and Austrian Airlines have cancelled all services until 31st May. Announced 1 hour ago.
There is a strong and growing movement in Scandinavian countries against flying. Green lobbyists v emissions/pollution. Already last summer i met a tour operator from Finland that changed to road travel by coach from Helsinki to Croatian coast area rather than fly. Uk tour operators are quoting surveys mentioning " perhaps avoiding so much air travel"
ReplyDeleteSwitching from flying to bus on such a long distance is borderline idiotic and there is still pollution in terms of gases and MUCH more noise pollution, not to mention littering along the way.
DeleteScandinavia is not Balkana, amigo.
DeleteThey have rail, boat, ferry, electric cars.....no bus or car mentality like the Balkana.
Air demand is lowering in Scandinavia and this might be just the beginning as people will use boats and not aeroplanes even to go to Amerika.
It's game over basically. Croatia stoped talking about border reopening in May (except perhaps for Slovenians who own a property here), other Eur countries are not saying anything or they are hoping for July. Austrian, Brussels, Tui, Easyjet, Emirates, Etihad, Turkish...None are flying before June. Aeroflot is the only one who had balls and said we won't resume flights before August. Most of the others are just f*cking us with postpoing everything biweekly.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're wrong and will get some flights from Podgorica in June... At least 10 %.
DeleteGreece invited tourists today to come but I guess that means only flights from BEG since other ex-YU airports barely have any air links with Greece.
DeleteYeah, but from when? I am afraid not before July
DeleteFrom what I heard second half of June, beginning of July. It's something at least. Yesterday they mayor of Dubrovnik basically warned Zagreb that without international flights at DBV they are going to be in deep trouble. If tourism season collapses the government will have to spend billions it doesn't have. Then we will get even more debt, which we already have too much here in Croatia.
DeleteJust checked Ryanair/Lauda, ZD-Vienna postponed for another week...
ReplyDeleteCorrection- it's available again.
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