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Air Serbia and China Southern Airlines have signed a mutual codeshare agreement in Guangzhou. The Serbian national airline will now add its "JU" designator code and flight numbers onto China Southern Airlines’ service between Guangzhou and Belgrade, while its Chinese counterpart will do so on Air Serbia's operations on the same route. Commenting on the agreement, Air Serbia's CEO, Jiri Marek, said, "Over three months ago, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China Southern Airlines, aiming to improve our partnership, as well as connectivity between Serbia and China. The introduction of flights from Belgrade to Guangzhou and Shanghai has opened further possibilities in the form of additional destinations across the networks of the two airlines, via Guangzhou and Belgrade. We will continue to search for opportunities to strengthen and expand our cooperation, with the goal of offering our passengers new travel options and enabling them to reach far-away destinations quicker and easier".
Air Serbia and China Southern Airlines signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September 2024, which includes further improving cooperation in various areas such as a codeshare partnership, cargo operations, ground handling services, MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) services, catering, lounge usage, and more. "The Serbian and Chinese national airlines are exploring opportunities for further commercial collaboration, which could potentially lead to joint investments", Air Serbia said.
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ReplyDeleteBravo! Finally good news, this is what we were waiting..Now South-east Asia where many Serbian tourists go during winter is much closer, and Australia as well...
ReplyDeleteWhat's the benefit, actually, just wondering? Isn't it quicker to fly e. g. to Bangkok via Doha with Qatar than via Guangzhou?
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I am waiting for Air Serbia mileage program. Codeshares should not be a priority.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who will benefit more from this codeshare?
ReplyDeleteAir Serbia surely. A lot of Chinese passenger will use JU, thinking it would be CZ. Many of them use only domestic companies.
DeleteGood to see JU moving forward with such a codeshare agreement.
ReplyDeleteHopefully it will be better than the QR and TK ones.
DeletePlease, Air Serbia, steady as she goes. Better to be a small boutique airline with an excellent product, service and safety. Work on providing a ten out of ten experience and then little by little, baby steps. Ah, I flew Air Serbia last week, it was an amazing experience! Oh really?
ReplyDeleteAlso, as Air Serbia should know, there is a huge market for outgoing passengers from Australia to Europe from May to September each year. It does not have to be only diaspora if you market it correctly here!
What about other destinations from Belgrade and Guangzhou?
ReplyDeleteIs code share limited only to this flight or passengers can now buy automatically tickets for CZ network, on airserbia website
ReplyDeleteI believe only BEG-CAN.
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