Air Serbia suspends Thessaloniki service

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Europe July traffic above expectations

Air traffic in European airspace exceeded air safety organisation Eurocontrol's "optimistic" predictions in July, as demand takes off this summer. Eurocontrol data show that flights reached 65% of 2019 levels last month, compared with May flight traffic trailing pre-Covid levels by 61%. The July numbers are slightly up on Eurocontrol's predictions made in early summer, when it proposed three scenarios. The most optimistic option planned for widespread vaccination take-up, easing travel restrictions and resumption of long haul flights. Eurocontrol predicted that flight numbers would reach 64% of pre-pandemic July levels should these conditions be met. Its baseline forecast was 52%, and its worst-case scenario saw July flight traffic reach just 46% of July 2019 levels. In order to exceed the organisation's optimistic scenario for August, flights would need to be at 69pc of 2019 levels. This looks likely to be met, if not surpassed, as flight traffic reached 68.3pc of pre-Covid levels in the last week of July, at 23.899 per day. Low cost carrier Ryanair was the busiest of the main European air carriers, with an average of 2.175 flights per day in July. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week bemoaned the slow start to air travel recovery in June, and its Director General Willie Walsh expressed concerns that the chance of a significant revival in international air traffic this summer is growing "fainter" by the day.
Source: Argus News

Air Serbia suspends Thessaloniki service

NEWS FLASH

Air Serbia is temporarily suspending its flights between Belgrade and Thessaloniki due to the coronavirus pandemic. For the majority of November, the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority had suspended all services to Greece’s second largest city as Thessaloniki went into lockdown due a rising number of Covid cases. Flights have now resumed for essential travel. However, Air Serbia has suspended its operations to the city until next summer season. Services are due to resume on March 28, 2021. The majority of Serbian national are not allowed entry into Greece. Air Serbia continues to maintain flights to Athens.

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Anonymous10:34
Not good at all. SKG was providing a lot of feed to the rest of the network.
Fairly recently a BEG employee had told me that almost the majority of all SKG Greek arriving pax were continuing on other JU flights.
Corona is really hurting us.
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Anonymous11:00
Aviation is collapsing all around us.
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Anonymous11:09
why fly empty
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Anonymous14:05
I am surprised they managed to hold on for so long considering Serbian citizens are banned from entering Greece.
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Anonymous19:03
First doses of the Russian vaccine should arrive this week. I know it's only 20 units but it's at least something. Hopefully more comes soon so that our aviation sector can go back to booming.
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