Air Serbia will be adding a number of frequencies this coming winter season, which begins on October 27, in addition to the eighteen new routes which are to be maintained from Belgrade and Niš. The carrier will be introducing additional flights from the Serbian capital to Bucharest, Larnaca, Thessaloniki, Tirana and Venice. As a result, services to both the Albanian and Romanian capitals will be maintained on a daily basis, while flights to Thessaloniki will operate five times per week, to Venice three times per week and to Larnaca twice weekly. The airline will also continue to run its newly launched year-round operations from Belgrade to Barcelona, Cairo, Helsinki, Kiev, Krasnodar, Madrid and Rijeka. It will keep the same summer frequencies for most new routes over the winter as well.
This winter season, Air Serbia will have an additional Airbus A319 aircraft at its disposal, enabling it to maintain services from Niš Airport to eleven cities. As a result, the airline will add the most new routes to its destination network among Europe's flag carriers this winter season, which runs until March 29, 2020. Air Serbia’s new routes to Spain, Helsinki and Krasnodar have proved particularly successful this summer. The Serbian carrier is also putting more business class tickets on sale within its short haul network. It is now offering up to twelve business class seats for sale per flight amid an increase in premium travel.
The airline’s CEO, Duncan Naysmith, previously noted, “We are very happy because we managed to significantly improve the functionality of our network, through careful selection of destinations, and in accordance with our passengers’ desires and the strategic plans for further expansion”. He added, “By expanding the Air Serbia international network, our national airline provides strong support for our economy and drives tourism growth". The company’s Corporate Communications Manager, Nikola Vukmanović, said recently, “It is important to note that we expect to significantly increase our overall passenger numbers this year thanks to these new routes”.

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This schedule just shows how the entire region has seasonality issues. Good thing OTP and TIA are going daily, JU has established itself over there.
SKG has a huge drop, from 14 to 5
JU has really good prices and transfer times in SOF.
I still think they can additionally resume VAR. TK already increased flights and even increased capacity.
AGP, PMI, LPA and possibly BIO.
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2017/09/air-serbia-to-consolidate-winter.html
Sure we are. Especially those of us who are not getting payed from other people's taxes!
- Replacement of ATRs
- Retirement of B733
- 2-3 new routes in Europe
- Continue down the road of LCC/hybrid model
Btw the interior of YU-APK still has Cobalt's cabin, hopefully they reconfigure it this winter season.
The Ukrainian-Russian cold war is also good for JU which has transfers from Kiev to Moscow.
I was quite surprised seeing few times Albanian passport holders on flights BEG-FRA.
From the other side political relations are not quite good so there are no touristic toures or much developed business relations.
I was one of them believing it won't work and I am so glad I was wrong!
Pristina, Munich, Tehran, to name a few. And yes I realise issue with PRN and that it won't start until some deal is made on a political level.
Just...Sooner or later they will need to decide what they will be doing with 3xB733. If they plan to replace them all at once with 3xB738 for example it might be quite a big financial impact for JU
It looks like JFK is still not in black and bringing one or two more long haul routes would simply cancel all the positive effects of newly introduced flights to BCN, MAD, HEL, KRR etc.
It looks like they finally found appropriate business model and that after Turkish and Aegean become the most important players in whole Balkan region. And all of it in situation where Serbia is not EU member, where Serbia does not have for example the population of Romania or the sea coast like in Croatia.
Congratulations Air Serbia!
IKA too far and quite unstable with ongoing sanctions and issues
Are there really passengers who fly KBP-BEG-SVO?
I mean, we all know there are no direct air links between Russian and Ukrainan capital but for transfers there are some much more logical transfer solutions like
KBP-WAW-SVO
KBP-PRG-SVO
KBP-RIX-SVO
KBP-MSQ-SVO
etc
You know that you have no arguments when you just say, the other kid did it to like a 6 year old...
There are so many other airports in Germany where only JU flies to (DUS, HAJ, FKB, NUE, HHN, STR, TXL) so there is no need to "cacka mecku" in MUC
JU must collaborate with UX in MAD similar to what RO did and increase more flights to MAD.
MAD must be at least daily.
BCN is more touristic and can be boosted in summer.
But for JU flying daily BEG-MAD would mean that they rotation would take at least 7,5 hours due to the fact that MAD is Air Serbia's farest European destination.
Let's not forget that one of the reasons for BEG-AUH cancellation was too long rotation of the plane that could be better utilised on some shorter European destination.
Of course MAD is much closer to BEG than AUH, but I am not sure that so many flights to Spain would be financially justified.
KBP - WAW - SVO = 1875 km
KBP - BEG - SVO = 2732 km
PRG is more logical choice for flights KBP-SVO due to the fact it has more-less same flying distance, as via BEG but from the other side OK flies 10 pw to Ukrainian capital and JU flies only 3 pw.
I hope it is clear now.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Karte_Suedosteuropa_03_01.png
In that way they would have one type less in fleet, and it will be possible to introduce some smaller regional jets in the future (non-Airbus).
There is no point in keeping one long haul route, that is really unsustainable. Either introduce new routes and improve airplane utilization or leave that market.
It looks that regional network is becoming stronger so long haul expansion might be considered.
Hmm, story with UIA "queen of cheap fares" in not that simple. For some period I was in situation to often check their prices:
-they are quite cheap if you buy let say 4 week in advance
-in some point prices are going up, very fast
-fares to "sunny" destination (GR, CY, ES) can be very, very expensive
Also, their baggage policy is quite strict. There are also some alternatives for that market (ie. SkyUp) but generally speaking, market is big and underserved so this is very good move by JU.
https://www.airserbia.com/footer_menu/kompanija/karijera/rad-u-er-srbiji/zaposlenje
So, during the winter they do not need so many Aviolet planes / flights and from the other side I am not sure if YU-AND, YU-ANK and YU-ANI would be able to fly 2020 summer season.
Therefore it was logical for me B738 to be leased.
My opinion is that it is too early now for new long haul as many new, successful routes have just been launched. Let's give a time to BCN, MAD, HEL, KRR to mature and then to start flying to YYZ or PVG beside JFK
First of all you should mind your own words no matter how desperate you might be.
The way via BEG is 850 km longer than connection via WAW. It is whole BEG-ATH flight.
Connnection possibilities can't be better for passengers via BEG as JU offers only 3 pw.
LO offers 14 WAW-KBP rotations per week.
And you mentioned FRA and MUC.
They have each around 20 weekly connections - much more than BEG
So, to conclude this topic:
Sometimes it is better to use longer flights if there are more connections (not case with JU).
If there is same number of connections you use those mostly those that are shorter (not case with JU).
And Air Serbia does not belong to each of these categories for KBP-SVO flights
In that case, no other airline could compete with them on Germany/Austria to Serbia market.
Besides, the main players between Kiev and Moscow are Belavia and Air Moldova.
BUD, KBP, WAW, VAR... were all destinations that were discontinued under EY management. Air Serbia is growing and expanding and that's the right way forward for them. They need the volume. As for KRR, July to August average LF grew by some 8%.
Please try to book KBP-SVO flight on JU internet page, for example in October, and return here to let us know if you managed to do it.
Air Moldova with 7 pw? Obviously main player :-)
Connections have nothing to do with frequencies but with departure banks and how waves are arranged.
If say Kiev and Moscow are in the same departure bank from PRG it means on most days where they don't fly double daily connections will be close to 24h.
Given it's three weekly their connections are pretty much the same as JU.
I hope i helped make this more clear for you.
If you need more help let me know.
Please do not forget that Czech Airlines has code-share with UIA (that JU does not have) and that fact provides them much more connecting possibilities than flying only on their metal during their waves.
So comparision between OK and JU on this route is actually not possible.
I hope I managed to complement your already huge aviation knowledge.
You obviously forget Ukraine is not just one city. Air Moldova became a significant player once Aeroflot moved from Odessa. They often fly A321 to Moscow.
I reacted on this statement
"Besides, the main players between Kiev and Moscow are Belavia and Air Moldova."
It was mentioned Kiew and not Ukraine, so I provided my reply accordingly.
First you started with detour, now with frequencies but while oblivious to the obvious: PRICE.
JU DOES have pax from Kiev to Moscow, among other destinations. Be it for price, connections or time.
Talking about price, currently AF is offering cheapest flights from Moscow to Kiev.
Are you gonna say they don't have pax to Kiev as well cause Paris is too far??!
Regarding to your other questions please read once again carefully my comments. Thank you.
Calm down, smell the roses
On the other side I used AirSerbia 3 times this year on this route. It was cheaper than EasyJet, the departure time is more convenient for someone who works here (Friday evening flight, early return, not sure on Monday or Tuesday) and the most important flies to Terminal A where each gate has their own passport control.
Anyway it's good to have choice and prices are quite reasonable.
Anyone know TIA's numbers for July? How many passengers do they have until now?
Otherwise it is only on dirty cheap price and pls remember that UIA had some 100 mln euro loss last year because of the dirty cheap prices it offered. This business is not only about the number of pax, but also about fares. If somebody is happy to take the passenger for much less for a 1000 km longer ride, it can hardly be profitable.
5x weekly Barcelona in summer would be nice ...
Who would have thought that the new destinations from both BEG and INI would actually contribute towards increasing the overall LF in the first few months of operating. Super impressive.
There are at least 3 daily flights from OTP but this is because of the huge Romanian diaspora in Spain.
RO used to have codeshare with IB but apparently ditched it and swapped with UX because of SkyTeam.
JU is unofficially SkyTeam because it already replaces AF/KL + OK on the PRG route.
What JU also needs to do is to partner with DL and possibly launch ATL instead of useless YYZ.
Oh it's you again, asking to be publicly schooled. Okay, so coastal airports like SPU and DBV have a ratio of passengers during busiest vs slowest month of the year typically around 20:1. Air Serbia hub Belgrade has that ratio of less than 2,5:1. Now given this seasonality discrepancy, simple math question for you. Which airport (BEG or one of the coastal) is more likely to suffer "when tourist stop flying"?
No need to answer, it's obvious. Take your hate for Air Serbia elsewhere.
Nonetheless, full kudos to them on what they are now achieving
Connections to Spain, Israel and similar LH daily frequencies.
Strongest part are flight prices to London - nearly 75% cheaper compared to BEG and not being capital. Lessons to be learned from the Romanian city.
TSR is basically now considered as a competition and soon to be 2 million...
Doubt JU will launch INI-PFO but you never know.
How about INI-TLV?
RJK?
What about Kiev?
That's the problem of Air France.
Going up and down, but trying.