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| Flights between Belgrade and Zagreb to resume after more than 23 years |
Air Serbia has announced the launch of a double daily service between Belgrade and Zagreb from December 12. The new flights mark the resumption of commercial traffic between these two cities following a 23-year hiatus. The Serbian carrier will operate both a morning and afternoon departure from Belgrade to the Croatian capital, primarily targeting transit passengers who will continue their journey onwards from its hub. In a statement, the airline says, “The new service will offer business travellers excellent connections through Air Serbia’s Belgrade hub at Nikola Tesla International Airport to popular destinations across the airline’s network including Athens, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Tel Aviv, Moscow and Larnaca, and key destinations across the Balkan region including Skopje, Tirana, Sofia, Bucharest, Tivat, Podgorica and Sarajevo”. Both flights will operate with a 66-seat ATR72 aircraft.
Air Serbia faces no direct competition on the route. The airline has been expanding aggressively throughout the region with the recent launch of flights to Tirana, as well as an upcoming frequency boost to Ljubljana and capacity increase to Podgorica starting December. Commenting on the new route launch, Air Serbia’s CEO, Dane Kondić, said, “The introduction of services to Zagreb is a significant and welcome addition to the airline’s rapidly growing network. The flights will meet the growing demand of business and leisure travellers regularly commuting between these two capitals and will save them considerable time in comparison to travel by train or car”. He added, “The new service will also provide two-way connections over Belgrade between Croatia, mainland Europe and key global destinations”. Recently, Air Serbia’s Chariman, Siniša Mali, said, “Our goal is to eventually fly twice daily to all cities in the region but before we do that we need to connect the last two cities in the former Yugoslavia that we do not fly to yet - Zagreb and Pristina”. From December the airline will already offer double daily flights to Ljubljana, Podgorica and Zagreb.
The new service marks a major milstone in the former Yugoslavia as its two largest cities will once again be served by commercial flights - the first since the dissolution of the federation. The last scheduled flight between Zagreb and Belgrade was operated by JAT Yugoslav Airlines on August 6, 1991. The route enjoys a long history with JAT’s predecessor, Aeroput, maintaining flights between the two cities since February 1928. With the introduction of this new service, Air Serbia will now have a considerable presence in Croatia. Apart from Zagreb, the airline will also operate seasonal flights to Dubrovnik, Split and Pula, all of which are set to see frequency upgrades this summer. Their resumption will be brought forward to the very start of the 2015 summer season in late March. In its last year of normal operations, Yugoslav Airlines was already recording a significant drop in passenger numbers across its domestic network. However, in 1990 JAT carried 340.000 passengers between Serbia and Croatia. Travel between the two republics accounted for 34% of all domestic air travel.
Flight details for the new Belgrade – Zagreb service can be found here.
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All in all, it's nice to see all this regional expansion. I am sure that Air Serbia will have no problem selling these seats.
What I am wondering is when does BEG plan on fixing the A6-A10 gates? They are horrible and really need fixing. I hope they finish it before March otherwise we are going to have chaos at the airport.
i m sure that the ATR72 will hve lots of aircraft upgrades to 319....
Али добро, и ја се исто надам да ће се придружити јату још која млађа птица!
Ali dobro, Jat?
Prelepo je pratiti nastojanje, napor Er Srbije premrezavanja jugo-istocne Evrope. Osto je zasada jos jedan grad na Kosovu i Metohiji. Svakako u vremenu pred nama i Pristina ce biti destinacija u mrezi otvorenog neba. Bez otvorenog neba nema ni kretanja ni otvorene slobode ljudi, roba i usluga. Manje hleba radosti kod ljudi na zemlji. Bilo gde. Ako je nebo zatvoreno, sloboda nas ljudi sa biznisom je atrofiran. Vise nego radost da ovaj deo Evrope otvara puteve prirodnog bitisanja. Ne jezikom nego zivom comunikacijom.
Za istinu se nadam da ce AIR SERBIA Iznajmljivati jos aviona razlicitih velicina prem potrebama trzista. Radovati ljude profesionalno ih opsluzujuci, sa stalnim poboljanjem servisa i odnosa . Sa neogranicenom radoscu prateci komercijalno vazduhoplovstvo po svetu, uz moju na Pacifiku , posebna radot je prema Er Srbiji, njenom razvoju, transformaciji. Sa nadom u BOGA da se rapidno prosiri citav aerodrom ANT BEOGRAD, dolazimo do realne stvarnosti. A to je sto se mene tice:
"NAMA DOBRO A NIKOME ZLO"!
Buducnost je pred nama, a moja nastojanja su sa vama.
Vas Rod. Marinkovic, AME. Kraljevo /// Sydney.
If the management told anybody, the news would be posted here within hours, and maybe they don't want that.
I na kraju, nama i svima dobro.
Just from what you have it sounds like Jat wanted to renegotiate the terms of the code share agreement. How is that trying to rip LH off?
Anyway, AS is in a much stronger position today and would for sure not settle for the terms of that deal today.
Za kraj ,vase misli ste izrekli sta mislite, a sto se tice kako kazete "Bog ima vaznije stvari nego..., to je posledica vasih misli a ne promisljanja. Kada covek nesto pogresi onda uobicajeno kaze, "Izvini(te) tako sam misljio". Ako je covek istinski promislio, onda se izvinjenje ne uklapa u promisao. Nemoze se manipulisati. Razvoju Beogradskog (I svega drugog sto ljudi stvaraju) prirodno je se radovati, dobre misli, reci, svaki drugi dobar nacin ako je ikako moguce primenjivati i pomagati..Pa ko zeli neka se GOSPODU BOGU moli i nada za dobro drugih.
Sa postovanjem. Vama svako dobro, a mene kako BOD da, bicu radostan.
Rodney & associated in good will.
Kraljevo /// Sydney.
It would be nice for them to get the Air Serbia livery. They have done such a tremendous job at the airline!
-- Charlie
Today's QR flight from Zagreb did not have more than 50 passengers! I really hope that loads are usually better than that!
-- Charlie
It's time for Ohrid now.....
All you had to do is read Elevate magazine, Mr Mali announced more than a month ago ZAG and PRN as next Air Serbia destinations in the magazine. Not sure it was really a top secret.
In all honesty i don't see how there'll be much business for JAT/AS in Zagreb, its good they've come, and its good they've got double daily, I just don't see them getting any transfers from Zagreb, mostly Croatian Serbs who might wish to visit their relatives in Serbia or Belgrade.
Zagreb is already well connected with Istanbul, Athens, Middle East, even better soon now that Aegean and Fly Dubai are coming to Zagreb. Most Croats fly to western destinations, EU wide, they have relative good choice of Airlines and decent prices too, only pity is that EasyJet has left Zagreb for now, they'll return I am sure of it, Zagreb is growing as an important travel destination and is very likely to become very popular as a city brake destination with in the EU, like Vienna, Munich or Prague are, given enough time. Zagreb is most visited capitol city in ex-YU, with biggest number of overnight stays and visitors, now passing one million mark in visitors numbers and 1.7 million overnights.
As to OU and Kucko, he'll be out soon enough, we had enough of him and his thievery, I am sure USKOK is looking at his operations, all state firms in Croatia are being looked at closely as a result of strict rules placed by the EU, and new laws being implemented. Only the other day USKOK made criminal charges against 220 workers at Zagreb Town Hall, all of them who gained their employment status through illegitimate ways, and couldn't provide evidence for their education. This isn't a lot considering Town Hall employs 8000 staff, but UKOK just started to look, they've estimated that at least 20% of all staff working for city of Zagreb's 8000 strong workforce are illegals or without proper qualifications. it is estimated that some 60 000 employees in Croatian government gained their jobs through illegitimate means and ways,i can tell you this, all of them will face prosecution once each government agency and ministry comes under scrutiny.
I think you are in a state of psychosis if you state that Zagreb is well connected with Athens. For the love of God, ZAG lacks a non stop flight to Rome!! The airport has pathetic links with the Middle East and the Balkan countries. I for one am happy about Air Serbia and I sure they will do just fine.
Read what Petar and Purger wrote. You might learn a thing or two. By the way, it's capital, not capitol.
I was actually expecting Aviolet to be more aggressive and go after other charter operators, esp from Turkey. I know they were given 733's to use and are limited that way.
Still there's some money left on the table in the charter business.
Albania is near too so many albanians will fly this route too...but it's all up to airserbia, maybe there isn't that big demand
Let's also not forget that Ohrid did offer subsidies to Air Serbia.
In 2010, which was the first visa free year, the airport handled 2.698.000. In 2014 the airport will handle around 4.600.000! Nice growth over the years.
-- Charlie
If you have the power to make a proposition to senior management, if I were you, I'd go with IKA and KIV.
what market is bigger or better said more lucrative for JU; PRN or TIA?
BCN is already served by Vueling in the high season, and Aviolet covers nearby charter destinations. On the other hand, MAD has zero competition, and is the go to hub for LATAM connections.
AMM already has impressive connectivity and competition to Europe and is expanding routes to North America, unlike Tehran.
I'll have to look closer into numbers but from the top of my head it looks like Dante is yanking our chain here...
Why doesnt SVO, TLV, BEY or any other destination in the network get that before Tirana or Pristina?
Its not economical to relocate people, give them apartments, so on and so on... Not even to mention how they would be crucified in media for employing Kosovo Albanians instead of Serbians...
If no one speaks Russian on SVO or Hebrew on TLV why should anyone speak Albanian on flight that a lot of people (rightfully or not) consider to be domestic flight?
LH does not care about your nationality... Sprechen Sie Deutsch oder Englisch? Nein, tut mir leid :)
TIA is 210, PUY 220, ZAG 230...
Jel zna neko koje gume koriste avioni ASL Michelin ili Bridgestone :)
Hvala unapred
INN-NS
Nothing's wrong with that, maybe they can offer similar in Albanian...
Also remember when I flew Malev in 2010 to AMM and BEY, they also had an audio safety demo in Arabic...
NS|SAN
INN-NS
Regarding Serbia and Croatia's cooperation prospects - yes, but when it comes to JU and OU's cooperation - hardly...
10 - 12 ATR 72-600
20-30 A 320 NEO sa PW 1100 JM engines
10-15 A 321NEO sa PW 1100G JM engines
4-6 A 350-900 XWB
2-3 A 350-1000XWB :)
Ne mora svako da se slozi sa ovim i da me zbog toga naziva moronom ili drugim uvredama mozda sam sad malo pretero ali ja mislim da bi bio predobro da flota ASL izgleda tako od 2020- 2026�� =D
INN-NS
volio bih i ja to INN ali si malo preterao:) malo vise
What are the targeted connections for Tel Aviv passengers? There must be a reason why TLV has schedule completely different from Larnaca and Beirut, and from the planned Cairo.
I think it's as interesting as new routes being launched. :)
There are no more Serbs left in Croatia
"@Then we have Air Serbia and Lot which will take passengers from OU who used to travel via Vienna/Munich/Frankfurt.@"
not sure how to respond to this other than cite someone from SSC forum who put it exactly how most Croats feel about flying with AS.
@ Vidim da nekima nisu baš najjasnije neke stvari pa da vam dovedem u perspektivu:
To je kao da ti osoba X upadne u kuću dok si na poslu, pokrade zlatninu, našamara ženu i djecu, zapali kuću, ubije pesa i rastepe smeće iz kante pa te nakon koju godinu susjed uvjerava da si debil jer se ne želiš voziti novom super povoljnom taxi komapanijom kojoj je dotična osoba X vlasnik.
Ili da ti netko naleti i ponudi da se voziš besplatno sa Čačićem kao šoferom po Europi, bilo makadamom, bilo autocestom
Zaključak: da je i besplatno velik broj ljudi ne bi letjel. Valjda ljudi smiju odlučivati kako raspolagati sa vlastitim novcem tako da molim da se više sjaši s ove teme. Hvala @
Svetoslav Suronja http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=119060254&postcount=5059
OU is in no danger of AS taking its share on any route, even if tickets were free, most Croats wouldn't fly with AS for the above reasons, Zagreb is served by many airliners, offering great deals on many routes, why would anyone fly with what is the worst airline in the region, to Western Europe is beyond me, even to mid East there's a plethora of airlines offering good flights.
AS's only traffic will be few business travelers and Croatian Serbs that have homes in Croatia and Serbia or relatives visiting Croatia from Belgrade. Belgrade as a tourist destination is as attractive option to Croats as Sofia and Bucharest are, there are about 2000 Croats going to these two cities for a city brake each year. if AS has more than 45000 pax on Zagreb - Belgrade route per year I'd be highly surprised.