The majority of airports across the former Yugoslavia are currently closed for commercial traffic, while numerous airlines across the world have grounded their fleets. However, the handful of carriers from the Gulf that serve the region have outlined their tentative resumption of operations and schedules for the upcoming period. Additional changes remain highly possible.
Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways is currently the only major Middle Eastern carrier still operating commercial flights and has positioned itself as an option for travellers abroad attempting to get home. The airline initially cancelled its service from Doha to Zagreb from April, only to reinstate a full schedule before finally settling for a four weekly rotation between the two cities from April 1 until May 31 using its Airbus A320 aircraft, after which flights are expected to increase to double daily. Operations to Belgrade have been suspended and are scheduled to resume on June 1. Services will operate five times per week until June 30 with its Airbus A321 aircraft, before increasing to ten weekly from July 1. The carrier will reintroduce operations to Sarajevo on June 1 with a three weekly schedule, instead of the planned four weekly, while services to Skopje will also run three times per week, a reduction from four last year, starting June 1. Both routes will be served by the A320 jet. The airline’s new seasonal service to Dubrovnik, which was to launch in mid-May has been cancelled and moved to 2021.
Emirates
Emirates plans to resume its service to Zagreb on May 1 with its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Initially, flights will operate three instead of seven times per week in May, increasing to daily from June 1.
Flydubai
Flydubai plans to resume daily operations to Belgrade on May 23. This will be followed by the reintroduction of daily Sarajevo flights on May 25. Although the carrier maintained up to three daily rotations to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital during the peak summer travel period last year, these are not planned for 2020, however, the reduction was scheduled prior to the coronavirus crisis. The Dubai-based airline intends on returning to Skopje from May 25 with two weekly flights. Seasonal services to Dubrovnik and Tivat resume May 21 and June 26, respectively.
Etihad Airways
Etihad Airways will reintroduce daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Belgrade from May 1.
Kuwait Airways, Air Arabia and Flynas
Saudi Arabia’s Flynas plans to resume operations between Jeddah, Riyadh and Sarajevo on May 21. Its new seasonal service from Qassim to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital will be pushed back a few days and launch on May 27. Kuwait Airways will go ahead with its planned new seasonal route to Sarajevo starting June 9. Air Arabia will resume its seasonal operations from Sharjah to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital from June 25.
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"Flydubai, the second-biggest customer for Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max jetliner, warned that its operations will shrink to 2014 levels if the model doesn’t return to service soon."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/flydubai-posts-loss-as-737-max-grounding-takes-its-toll
After years of frustrations made by the success of Serbian aviation please let him believe it.
It is not human at this moment to destroy his hopes and wishes.
"They did cancel Sarajevo and Belgrade before it was closed for commercial traffic."
Some experts think Boeing will announce ending of all 737 production this year. Not just current temporary halt.
What would have been the point of keeping Belgrade (even if the airport was still open) when Serbia introduced a complete ban on foreigners entering the country and introduced a curfew.
Using this situation to prove whether a certain route has more demand is completely silly.
( 777-300ER ) on Flightradar24 .
Neke kompanije su ekstremne restrikcije stavile do sredine travnja (aprila), no većina do kraja travnja i početka svibnja (maja), među njima i Ryanair, Aegean, United idr. No, to ne znači da neće produžiti redukcije i tijekom svibnja, već je samo jasno da u travnju (aprilu) situacija neće biti ništa bolja nego krajem ožujka (marta), tj. da će oko 95% svjetskih kapaciteta, linija i frekvencija ostati prizemljeno, a većina manjih zračnih luka zatvorenih.
Prema izjavama zdravstvenih stručnjaka optimističke prognoze su da će se koronavirus suzbiti dolaskom toplog vremena, dakle sredinom svibnja (maja) kao što je to uobičajena situacija sa većinom viroza. No, ovo naglo zahlađenje i pad temperatura na nulu tome svakako neće pomoći, a ni primjeri južne polutke gdje je tijekom naše zime bile ljeto, a bolest se širila, svakako ne ulijevaju optimizam. Većina zdravstvenih stručnjaka smatra da bi ovakvo stanje moglo potrajati do kraja lipnja (juna). Oni pesimističniji tvrde da je moguće da isto potraje do prosinca (decembra). Prva generacija koronavirusa, poznatiji kao SARS trajao je od studenog (novembra) 2002. do srpnja (jula) 2003. iako je većina epidemije stala u lipnju (junu) sa toplim vremenom. Ptičja gripa je pak trajala cijelu 2007. godinu, od siječnja (januara) do prosinca (decembra) 2007, dok je svinjska gripa trajala do ljeta, od siječnja do kolovoza (augusta) 2010. Najcrnije prognoze dala je američka zdravstvena služba predsjedniku Trumpu koja je rekla da bi se moglo desiti da pandemija potraje i 18 mjeseci uz valove smanjenja i ponovnog povećanja zaraženih, pri čemu će se zaraziti do 70% populacije. Oni naglašavaju da ovaj scenarij nije najvjerojatniji, ali da je moguć.
Kina, koja je izvor zaraze (otkrivena u prosincu 2019.), je 23.1.2020. grad Wuhan stavila u karantenu te je isti dan zatvorila Aerodrom Wuhan (24,5 milijuna putnika u 2018.) za sav civilni promet, nakon samo dva i pol mjeseca, 8.4 otvara aerodrom za sav civilni promet. U Kini je pandemija prekinuta. Ukupno su imali 81.218 zaraženih, samo 47 je novih slučajeva koronavirusa (od kojih je dobar dio došao iz inozemstva), od čega je umrlo 3.281, a izliječeno 73.650. U ovom momentu je ostalo još samo 4.287 oboljelih. Iz bolnica se otpušta bitno više izliječenih nego se prima oboljelih. Napominjem da je Kina sve vrijeme zaraze imala otvorenu većinu aerodroma (zatvoreno je bilo samo 16 od 243 aerodroma) iako je većina aerodroma imala restrikcije i ekstremne kontrole putnika.