Russia’s national carrier Aeroflot has delayed the planned resumption of flights from Moscow to Ljubljana and Tivat until April 30 at the earliest as authorities have not given the go-ahead for services to Slovenia and Montenegro to resume. Operations were initially scheduled to restart on March 28 after more than a year. Flights to Zagreb were not scheduled to resume in March and the route’s fate remains unknown at this point. The Russian carrier has only restarted services to Belgrade out of all the former Yugoslav markets. Flights are capped by the Russian government at two per week per operator. Both Russian and Serbian citizens can enter each other’s countries with a negative PCR test. Russia has so far only allowed the resumption of flights to twenty countries.
In late 2018, Aeroflot launched daily services from Ljubljana to Moscow and saw excellent results on the route, increasing capacity shortly after the launch and scheduling two daily rotations for the 2020 summer season, however, those never materialised due to the Covid pandemic. In 2019, a total of 72.498 passengers flew between the two cities. On the other hand, Russia is Montenegro’s largest air travel market. In 2019, 631.571 passengers flew between Moscow and Tivat alone, with Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines, Red Wings and Yamal all serving the route.
The resumption of flights between Moscow and Belgrade has resulted in a travel boom between Serbia and Russia. Tour operator TUI Russia noted a surge in bookings to Serbia immediately after the restoration of flights in October. “Serbia has never been in such demand before. And the New Year holidays were sold out quickly. The most popular destination was the Kopaonik mountain resort, which accounted for about 70% of all sales to Serbia. The resumption of additional flights to Belgrade from April will reduce the cost of airfares”, the tour operator said. Last Sunday, Russia’s Nordwind Airlines commenced flights from Moscow to Belgrade, becoming the third carrier on the route. Aeroflot continues to upgrade its capacity on the service, deploying the wide-body Airbus A330-300 aircraft between the two capitals on one of its two weekly flights for most of December and January. It has also scheduled the twin-aisle aircraft for February 6, February 20, March 6 and March 13. On the other hand, Air Serbia, limited by the two weekly flight cap, has operated numerous charters to Moscow, on occasion using its wide-body A330-200 as well.
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"It has also scheduled the twin-aisle aircraft for February 6, February 20, March 6 and March 13."
The fact that you repeatedly accuse me of something I never said, speaks a lot about you. I suggested daily ZAG-NYC, yes, and gave examples of cities, listed in the Routes, which could feed NYC-ZAG from one side, through alliance partnership, and yes, I mentioned TGD as one of the cities which could feed the service from the other side, by flights operated by OU, and in the situation when YM ceased operations. I am actually sorry for you for not being able to understand what I suggested , no matter what your reasons are. And I am kindly asking you to stop writing lies about me because people can actually find here exactly what I wrote and conclude that you just make fool of yourself proving to be right with lies. And speaking of OU profitability,please don't, because everybody knows that OU is deep in red, and makes no profit at all, on the contrary, it survives just by immense state subventions and aid. And unlike me, who suggest change of unprofitable model, and instead feeding others for peanuts, start its own serious operations, which have market and potential, you suggest to keep the status quo, and even write lies about me, simultaneously not giving one single suggestion what to do. And just the last sentence - whatever reply you give and whatever lie you write, I will not discuss with you any more because you simply don't deserve it.
Albania is becoming more and more popular for tourists, well before Corona ...
Are you even aware of the size of Montenegro or how close TGD and TIV are? TK had multiple daily flights to both Moscow and Podgorica too. If the price and convenience are superior i wouldn't be surprised if more people chose TK rather than JU. I am not the original poster and i don't know what airlines Russians are choosing to get to Montenegro, but it surely doesn't make zero sense
LJU was severely underserved and finally LH Group's monopoly was crushed.
1. Israel 50.2%
2. UAE 29%
3. Seychelles 26%
4. UK 11.7%
5. Bahrain 8.5%
6. USA 7.5%
7. Malta/Serbia 5.3%
9. Iceland 4.5%
10. Denmark 3.8%
Remaining ex-YU countries:
Slovenia 3.1%
Croatia 1.7%
N. Macedonia 0%
Montenegro 0%
Bosnia 0%