Greece's Aegean Airlines will continue to grow its network in the former Yugoslavia for a fifth consecutive year in 2019, with the carrier to introduce flights between Athens and Sarajevo. The Greek airline will maintain two weekly services between the two capitals starting June 13, with flights to operate each Thursday and Saturday with the 78-seat Dash 8 turboprop aircraft. Tickets are already on sale. Sarajevo becomes the airline's seventh destination in the former Yugoslavia. It currently serves Belgrade and Zagreb on a year-round basis, and Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Podgorica during the summer. The carrier has also reaffirmed it will introduce flights to Skopje following "the resolution of certain contentious issues".
The Greek carrier told EX-YU Aviation News, "The former Yugoslav region is an important market for Aegean Airlines. Demand for these routes remain strong as passengers are able to travel to Athens and beyond. Our performance is satisfactory on this market, as is the cooperation we have with partner airlines in the region. Almost all flights from the former Yugoslav republics to Athens offer very good point to point coverage, as well as access to thirty Greek domestic destinations, connections to Cyprus and destinations in the Middle East and Southern Italy, which have proved popular with passengers from the Balkan region. Aegean is considering increasing frequency on existing routes as well as adding further destinations in the region".
Aegean Airlines has so far been present on the Bosnian market through its codeshare agreement with Air Serbia. The airline has had its flight numbers and desingator code on the Serbian carrier's service between Belgrade and Sarajevo since 2015. "Our cooperation with Air Serbia continues to be satisfactory", Aegean said in a statement. Earlier this year, the Athens-based airline announced a $5.8 billion deal to purchase up to 42 new Airbus A320neo aircraft. “Aegean Airlines is a great example of a resilient and superbly managed airline. It has weathered the country’s financial crisis and come out of it much stronger than before. Moreover, Aegean’s customer focus and attention to service excellence have made the company one of the most awarded airlines in terms of customer satisfaction", Airbus said.
Aegean Airlines faces no direct competition on the route. Further flight details can be found here.
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Now that's interesting. Wonder which countries from the Balkans?
If we do not include Turkey, for me, Aegean is really the best airline in the Balkans.
Btw. Flights to Zagreb are also year-round. You can also buy a ticket for january and february.
Which two months ?
BEG-ATH 5 weekly A320
DBV-ATH 3 weekly A320
ZAG-ATH 3 weekly DH8
SOF-ATH Daily A320
OTP-ATH 11 weekly A320
TIA-ATH 8 weekly A320
- Adria
- Aegean
- Croatia Airlines
- Eurowings
- Lufthansa
- SAS
- Swiss
- Turkish Airlines
And they carry the most passengers from SJJ.
SPU and ZAD will also be resumed, DBV will be daily as this year.
But TK and even OS will be more affected.
You mean they should loose money by flying to Zagreb in winter?
As for Aeroflot, possibly. Could be a good alternative from Turkish for Chinese passengers considering they no longer need visas to travel to Bosnia so I'm sure number of visitors will only grow.
It is interesting that despite being an airline 5 times larger than ASL they have the same number for employees.
2 weekly Apr - May
3 weekly June
4 weekly Jul - Aug
I think they borrowed experience from Kondić, Kučko and Hogan! ;) ;) ;)
They should form a boyband :)
I think their policy to focus on the region only. After all, they won the prestigious "Best Regional Airline" award:
https://en.about.aegeanair.com/media-center/press-releases/2017/h-aegean-brabeyetai-apo-ta-world-travel-awards-2017/
This is the reason why JU and OU are struggling for the award too, which is understandable.
SMFH how overstaffed our national airline is for the number of passengers it carries...
-Triple daily on SU
- Nine weekly on RO
- Five weekly on HV
- Daily on Alitalia
Plus code-shares:
- 14 weekly on JU to CDG
- 10 weekly on JU from AMS
- JU to SVO
- AZ on JU to FCO, VCE and MXP.
No luggage
Aegean will destroy JU on the future SJJ route.
I hope Sarajevo based travel agencies start offering packaged deals to Greece now.
Wow!
And you reasoning is based on what???
Unless you have some concrete evidence to back your foolhardy statement, don't expose yourself to ridicule, unless you're right at home being ridiculous...
Turkish flies to Sarajevo how many times, which country has more cultural and social affinity for Bosniaks ? Oh yes. Even Croats prefer Turkey over Greece, where 40 000 Croats got for holiday. Greece was visited by less than 20 000 Croats last year. Bosniak barely go to Greece.
http://www.bhas.ba/index.php?option=com_publikacija&view=publikacija_pregled&ids=3&id=16&n=Tourism
Many flights are shorter and way more expensive. For example, check Cape Air on short Boston-Nantucket route (79nm, propeller plane), they charge between 300-400 eur return. Stop hatin' on BEG/JU, you always end up looking dumb.
But if you really liked to know, I said two things:
"Serbian population in BiH naturally gravitate towards Greece" - you might not agree with it but cultural, historical religious connections between Serbs and Greeks are well known and similar to the ones between Bosniaks and Turks. So, myself as well as many of my family members visit Greece and now it's going to be even easier. This is not to say that Bosnian Serbs don't go to Turkey as well
"portion of Bosnian population will choose Greece over Turkey for their vacation" - I never said tha tMuslims or Croats prefer Greece. I'm purely speculating that some of them might change the destination and decide to see what Greece is all about. You can say this is not true, but at least in the case of three of my Muslim friends from Sarajevo this is not the case because we talked about organizing a private trip next year, driving to Belgrade and taking the plane/package from there.
So again, I don't understand what was so offensive in my comment that provoked your reaction but I hope I did my good deed for the day and provide you with the satisfactory explanation.
Wow, you dug up an example. Good for you! BTW, nobody mentioned BEG here. This is the new normal, pointing out the facts is branded as hate.
Fact 2: BEG is one leg, (great observation, btw), but it is your interpretation that I took a swipe at BEG. I even stripped the taxes to expose pure airline fare only.
Fact 3. Please note the qualifier 'one of' in my comment. I haven't searched the entire universe of fares around the globe. The fact that you found one fare in Nantucket (i had to Google it) doesn't change the fact that JU'S BEG-SJJ is still 'one of' the most expensive.