Air Serbia to further grow operations across network

Air Serbia is heading into the peak of the summer season this July with additional frequencies across its network, despite experiencing operational issues and delays over the past week. This coming month, the airline will boost flights from Belgrade to Athens, Dubrovnik, Larnaca, Oslo, Pula, Split, Tivat and Thessaloniki compared to June. Notably, the carrier will increase operations to Oslo to five per week. The route was launched in the summer of 2020 with two weekly frequencies and competes directly against Norwegian Air Shuttle, as well as indirectly against Wizz Air, which maintains services to Sandefjord Airport. Some of the airline’s busiest markets in July will be Montenegro with 65 weekly flights from the Serbian capital. Germany with 29 rotations, as well as Italy and Croatia with 25 weekly operations.

A number of destinations have been restored to pre-pandemic levels while flights on several others will exceed those prior to the global health emergency. The Serbian carrier will boast pre-pandemic frequencies (2019 summer season) this July on services to Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris, Podgorica, Rome, Sarajevo and Vienna, while operations will exceed pre-covid levels to Barcelona, Dusseldorf, Larnaca, Tirana, Tivat, Zadar and Zurich. During July, Tivat will boast the most frequencies within Air Serbia’s network, served from three cities in the country. It will be followed by Zurich, Podgorica and Paris. The Serbian carrier will also continue to run two weekly flights from Niš to Athens, Cologne, Hahn, Istanbul and Ljubljana, in addition to the domestic four weekly Belgrade service, while from Kraljevo, the airline will maintain operations to Tivat and Thessaloniki, as well as Turkey’s largest city.

Air Serbia Belgrade operations in July

Destination	Weekly frequency	Notes
Amsterdam	9
Athens	10
Barcelona	3
Bari	3
Banja Luka	2
Berlin	6
Brussels	2
Bologna	3
Bucharest	6
Copenhagen	5
Dusseldorf	7
Dubrovnik	5
Frankfurt	7
Hanover	3
Istanbul	7
Larnaca	8
Ljubljana	11
London Heathrow	9
Lyon	2
Madrid	2
Milan	7
Moscow	8
New York	6
Nuremberg	2
Niš	4
Oslo	5
Paris	14
Palma	2
Podgorica	21
Prague	4
Pula	3
Rome	7
Rijeka	2
Salzburg	3
Sarajevo	7
Sochi	2
Sofia	6
Skopje	10
Split	5
Stockholm	5
St Petersburg	2
Stuttgart	4
Tirana	11
Tivat	44
Thessaloniki	8
Trieste	2
Valencia	2
Venice	3
Vienna	14
Zadar	3
Zagreb	7
Zurich	21

 

This June, Air Serbia will serve 52 destinations out of Belgrade on a scheduled basis, increasing to just over seventy once regular charters are taken into accounts. Frequencies are subject to change at short notice. Over the weekend and into Monday, the airline saw a number of its flights delayed, with several cancellations due to a shortage of staff and a technical issue with some aircraft. Similar problems are being faced by airlines and airports across the continent, as well as North America. “The Serbian national airline apologises to all passengers who may have been affected by these delays and flight cancellations. Most passengers from affected flights were taken care of by being rebooked onto later flights, and the competent departments of Air Serbia are constantly working on providing necessary support. The company is also deploying additional resources to improve passenger support. The safety of passengers and crew members is the most important priority for Air Serbia”, the airline said.