Air Serbia is further adjusting its route network with the suspension of another three routes for 2020 due to low demand and travel restrictions resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. The carrier is terminating its seasonal flights to Pula and Zadar for this year and has also dropped plans to restore operations to St Petersburg in September. All three are expected to resume in 2021. It comes after the airline previously announced the suspension of flights to Madrid, Kiev and Nice until next year. Air Serbia continues to fly to Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Split in Croatia and intends on resuming operations to Moscow and Krasnodar in Russia once foreign carriers are permitted to restore flights to the country, which is expected in September.

Despite the further reduction in its network size, Air Serbia plans to increase frequencies on several routes from Belgrade this month. Starting August 17, the airline will grow operations to Athens from the current eight weekly to ten weekly flights, services to Dubrovnik will increase from two to three weekly, while operations to Paris will return to pre-pandemic levels, from the current ten weekly to double daily. Flights to Tirana will also be increased from nine to eleven weekly rotations, to Vienna from five to nine weekly, to Skopje from eight to nine weekly and to Sofia from four to five weekly. Towards the end of the month, from August 24, operations to Larnaca will be increased from two weekly services to three. Changes remain highly likely.

Subject to the relaxation of existing flight bans, Air Serbia plans to restore services to Rome and Milan on August 16 and to Venice on August 31. Following a short break, operations will also resume to Barcelona, Brussels and Bucharest during August. Air Serbia previously indefinitely discontinued its flights to Helsinki, Malta, Cairo, Beirut and Rijeka but launched operations to Oslo. As of this morning, the Serbian carrier serves 27 destinations out of Belgrade and three out of Niš. Services from Kraljevo have been temporarily suspended until September. The carrier offers the most frequencies out of the Serbian capital to Zurich, with eleven weekly rotations as of next week.

Commenting on its current operations, Air Serbia's CEO, Dunvan Naysmith, said, “We are continuously monitoring the situation, and we hope that the travel restrictions will be lifted in due course, as we are unable to operate normally. We remain focused on gradually ramping up operations where possible, whilst protecting the health of customers and employees.