Tunisian carrier Nouvelair plans to grow its number of flights to former Yugoslav markets this coming summer and increase its weekly capacity to the region by 55% compared to last year. Despite the airline being a network carrier, its services to Banja Luka, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Skopje are all operated as regular charters, meaning they have a predefined schedule and run throughout the summer season, but tickets are sold exclusively through tour operators or as part of tour packages. This summer, the airline will offer 99.990 seats on its Belgrade flights, up 66% on last year, 22.680 in Sarajevo, an increase of 90% on the summer of 2024, 16.200 in Skopje, up 42%, 13.680 in Ljubljana, an increase of 3%, and 6.480 seats on its Banja Luka operations, increasing 66% on 2024.
The carrier will resume flights to Belgrade from May 5, serving the Serbian capital from both Monastir and Djerba. From June, until the end of the peak summer travel period in late September, the carrier will boast 14 weekly flights, up by six weekly rotations on 2024. This will include eleven weekly rotations from Monastir, two weekly nonstop from Djerba and a weekly rotation from Djerba operating via Ljubljana. Services will be maintained until the very end of the summer season. The airline returns to Sarajevo from May 5, operating five weekly rotations from June until late September, including two weekly flights from Monastir, up by one on last year, and a new weekly service from Djerba. Flight details for the latter are available here. Unlike last year, flights are scheduled to run throughout May and October, with the last service of the year planned on October 20.
Nouvelair will return to Skopje from June 8, maintaining three weekly flights, up by one on last year. In addition to two weekly rotations from Monastir, the airline will introduce a new weekly service from Tunis, which was not served last year. Further flight details are available here. The carrier will run its last flight to the Macedonian capital on September 28. In Ljubljana, the airline will resume operations almost a month earlier than last year, on May 11, but will end flights a month earlier as well, on September 24. The Tunisian carrier will boast two weekly flights to the Slovenian capital, including one weekly rotation from both Monastir and Djerba. While these are the same frequencies as last year, flights from Djerba will start a month earlier and end a month later, in June and September respectively. Finally, Banja Luka will boast a weekly service from Monastir from June 4, which will run a month longer than last year, until September 24.
Nouvelair’s peak summer operations
Great news
ReplyDeleteThe growth in LJU is laughable
ReplyDeleteThat Skopje-Tunis schedule is not so great.
ReplyDeleteWhy ?
DeleteWell look at it. You arrive in Tunis at 2.20AM.
Deleteand?
DeleteOk, I guess enjoy arriving at your holiday destination at 2.20 in the morning and your hotel at 4AM, while having to pay the hotel room for the entire previous day in order to be able to check in at 4AM.
DeleteMost of that package holidays in the world are with the same schedule. Nothing bad with that. It is new route from SKP thats important, plus Djerba and Monastir
DeleteAnon 11:27, yes.. you got the point!
Deletecheck-in is at lunch and until then you are allowed to stay at the ressort area.
DeleteSame for the last day, check out in the morning and you can stay all day. In fact you are geting full 8 days for 7 paid nights.
17h41 LOL!! What tour operator does that??? You would have to pay for an extra night, or the package is already made/calculated for 8 days, that's for sure!
DeleteEverybody does that. I have been twice in Antalya till now and we arrived at the hotel at 6AM, we immediately had the right to use everything in the resort, we even had a room where we left our bags. On the last day, we left the room at 12 midday and we enjoyed everything the resort was offering until midnight, cause our flight was at 3AM. Same with Hurghada. So i am sure the travel agencies knows better than u.
DeleteI work for an outgoing tour operator and I can tell you literally this is to say the least very uncommon. I am not saying you made this up but this sure isn't the norm.
DeleteDepends on how big the tour operator is. There are hotel which are booked by one agency for the whole summer. They can dictate terms as they please since they also arrange for the flight times.
Delete@22.29 Antalya works like that. Its actually 6 nights and 7 full days. or 9/10 and 13/14
DeleteI didnt made that up i experienced that three times till now, twice in Antalya and once in Hurghada. All charters from Skopje are operating during the early morning hours so ofc i am telling the truth.
DeleteImpressive. At 2 daily in BEG they are bigger than most foreign airlines.
ReplyDeleteSeems like they are making the most from JU experiencing fleet restrictions. Nouvelair is well known on the local market so seems like tour operators have shifted to working with them.
DeleteVery good for them. They have been flying to Serbia for years and years now.
Anyone know what kind of presence JU will have in Tunisia? I know they are boosting INI flights in summer.
Of course how big is serbia and how big are the rest countries mentioned ? Serbia is huge market in Ex yu and thats normal and expected as well
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteI was looking for this comment :D
DeleteThe one and only charter hub in the world!
DeleteThey will have more capacity in BEG than LO or KL!
ReplyDeleteYet weirdly they don't have a single route to any Croatian airport.
DeleteTunisair does
DeleteTunisair does not fly to Croatia. Neither has flown in last 5 years.
DeleteSo what's the reason why only Croatia doesn't have any Tunisia flights?
DeleteCroatia does have Tunisia flights, Croatia flies weekly charter Zagreb-Monastir. There is no demand for more because Croatian citizens go to Adriatic coast mostly.
DeleteSlovenes can also go to the Adriatic coast yet they also go to Tunisia. Tunis Air also tried to fly to ZAG but those flights were never successful.
DeleteWow
ReplyDeleteWow indeed
DeleteInteresting how Nouvelair controls almost all of ex-YU but ZAG where TU is the dominant player.
ReplyDeleteTU's presence in ZAG is minimal.
DeleteNouvelair's is even smaller.
DeleteTU does not fly to Zagreb and has not flown in the last 5 years.
DeleteIs this the only carrier between Tunisia and ExYu countries?
ReplyDeleteAir Serbia operates charters to Tunisia as well.
Deleteno, there are other charters too (at least from SKP)
DeleteSuch as?
DeleteBH Air (Monastir and Djerba)
DeleteMonastir and Djerba are served from SKP , and Tunis would be the 3th destination to this country.
DeleteVery interesting you asked this question 20 minutes after another poster published Tunisair operating to Zagreb. And until it went bust, Dubrovnik Airline operated weekly to Tunis, Thursdays if I remember correctly
DeleteTunisair does not operate flights to Zagreb. Stop spreading misinfo.
DeleteTunisair announced flights to ZAG but they were cancelled due to low demand.
DeleteThey should give a chance to INI. I think 1pw in summer should work.
ReplyDeletePeople from Nis usually go to Greece by car/bus. For those interested in Tunisia or Turkey there are Air Serbia charters. Twice weekly to Monastir and weekly to Antalya.
DeleteAir Serbia is actually increasing Nish-Monastir flights this summer. They are going from 1 to 2 weekly. Seems like they were a success.
DeleteDidn' know about JU INI charters to Tunisia. Great.
DeleteSomeone said here before that BEG would stagnate this year 🤣
ReplyDeleteIt's not someone, it's this portal. They said the other day that summer growth will be minimal.
DeleteThe portal did not say "minimal" it said "modest" and it said that it is based on the schedule filed on that day. It is only January.
DeleteSo, the growth will be modest or more than that, but some still believe "it will stagnate".
DeleteI am so sorry for them.
These increases by Nouvelair will be a nice boost especially since JU is unable to meet the growing demand. Stagnation will be if the airport grows between 0% and 2% this year. Anything above that will be considered as growth.
DeleteCharter flights are not taken into official seat account
DeleteWish they would put some seas in free sale too like Air Cairo does.
ReplyDeleteYes, that would be great but I assume the flights are packed by tour operators
DeleteThey just sell all the seats to tour operators. Easiest way to make money. You get the same amount of money regardless if the plane is full or empty. All risk is on the tour operator.
Delete14 weekly flights to Belgrade is serious stuff. Especially for charter ops.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is.
DeleteSeems like Tunisia is back
ReplyDeleteI hope they add Enfidha in the future
ReplyDeleteThey have more flights than some scheduled airlines around.
ReplyDeleteHappy these are working out for Banja Luka
ReplyDelete13 Airbus A320-200, 2 Airbus A320Neo, fleet age 13.8. ... quite 👍
ReplyDeleteMacedonia will get 3th destination to Tunisia 👏👏 it is cheap and nice place for summer vacation and of course itd affordable especially with the early summer packages.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if someone soon introduces regular, real route between BEG and Tunis..BEG was always connected to Tunisia , exept those few years of internstional sanctions....Regardinf charters, tourist who want to travel with an travel agency, they go to agency and book their package, so they are not interested who is giving transport service..For the rest of people, charter flights and information about it should be even less of importance
ReplyDeleteJU will probably do such, same as they did with Spanish, Italian and Greek Mediteranean destinations.
DeleteWill air cairo come back to bnx and sjj this year?
ReplyDeleteno
Delete:(((
DeleteNo Croatia or Montenegro?
ReplyDeleteThere is simply no demand for those flights. People from continental Croatia can use LJU and BEG for these flights.
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