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Air Serbia Cargo recorded its biggest ever annual uplift in 2018 by transporting 6.200 tonnes of goods and postal packages. At the same time, the division's revenues grew 7% compared to 2017. According to Air Serbia's Cargo Director, Veselin Djordjević, the two crucial destinations for cargo transport within the airline's network are New York and Moscow. "JFK Airport is important due to long haul capacity and the capability of covering cargo transportation across the Atlantic to the United States, Canada, and countries in South America, while Moscow has proved crucial for short haul traffic", the company said. The airline has transported a wide variety of cargo to the United States, including fruit and vegetables from Serbia, mozzarella cheese and textiles from Italy, garments and machine parts from Turkey and Romania, mail from Russia and Greece and safety glass from Croatia. From the other direction, there are regular shipments of cargo from Ecuador, Argentina and Brazil being sent to Serbia and the region. In addition to its nonstop flights to New York, Air Serbia provides road feeder services to 53 cities across the US and Canada.

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Long haul cargo results would have been even better if Air Serbia launched additional destinations at ORD or PEK. It takes couple of years for cargo service to develop and JU missed that opportunity. In the past couple of years they could have enjoyed cheap oil, growing demand and relative lack of competition. Ex Yu region and surrounding countries are slowly getting more long haul destinations, oil price is trending up and global market slowdown is imminent. Timing is everything.
I know TNT uses Solinair from LJU while DHL has a five weekly B734 flight to Linz, it used to be BUD until last year.
Are Serbia does have very good coverage of ex-yu, and strong coverage of some airports in the Balkans. Would have to improve coverage of more Balkan airports.
Ps: 15 tons today BEGJFK is very good achievement
Also the flights to YYZ are being looked at to start in the fall/winter of 2019. YU-ARA would be used on the JFK and the new YYZ route.
New A330 will come in 2020.
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they told me that prep work for the long haul route is about 6 months. Lots of things needs to be in place before they can announce. i guess that is logical.
I just hope that is the case and that YYZ route by JU is around the corner.