The national carriers from the former Yugoslavia - Air Serbia, Croatia Airlines and Montenegro Airlines - are finalising their schedules for next month with the trio to offer a total of 225.280 seats on the market and operate 2.090 flights at this point.
Air Serbia
From December 1 until the end of the month Air Serbia plans to run 1.040 flights (return service included) and has 116.040 seats on sale. The carrier will maintain operations from Belgrade to 29 destinations. They include Athens, Amsterdam, Banja Luka, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London Heathrow, Larnaca, Ljubljana, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Paris, Podgorica, Prague, Stuttgart, Sarajevo, Sofia, Skopje, Stockholm, Tivat, Tirana, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Zurich and Zagreb. From Niš, the airline will only maintain a single route, to Hahn, twice per week. The majority - 52.2% of all flights - will be operated by its Airbus A320-family fleet, 41% by ATR72s, 4.6% by Boeing 737s and 2.3% by the Airbus A330. Top routes based on frequencies will be Zurich, Podgorica, Tirana, Paris and Istanbul.
Croatia Airlines
Croatia Airlines plans to operate 750 flights (return service included) during the month of December with some 76.414 seats on offer. The carrier will maintain services from Zagreb to thirteen domestic and international destinations. Among them are Amsterdam, Brussels, Dubrovnik, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Paris, Pula (via Zadar), Rome (via Split), Sarajevo, Skopje, Split and Zadar. International flights will also be operated from Split to Rome, Frankfurt and Munich. Overall, the carrier will primarily utilise its Dash 8 turboprops, which will be deployed on 62.9% of all flights, followed by the A319 on 34.8% and the A320 which will be used on just 2.3% of all operations. Croatia Airlines’ aircraft will frequent Frankfurt the most, followed by Amsterdam, Zurich, Rome and Paris.
Montenegro Airlines
Montenegro Airline will run 300 flights (return service included) with the capacity to welcome 32.826 passengers throughout the coming month. It will operate flights from Podgorica to Belgrade, Frankfurt, Paris, Ljubljana and Zurich, while from Tivat it will serve Belgrade and St Petersburg, if Russia gives the go-ahead for the service. Most frequent destinations will be Belgrade, Ljubljana, Paris, Vienna and St Petersburg. The Fokker 100 will be most utilised during the month, operating up to 94% of all flights. The remaining 6% will be run by the Embraer E195.
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OU has 6 Q400s, JU 5 ATRs. Not such a big difference.
VIE-TIA next week will have 5 weekly on 3 Q400 and 2 E95.
OU ==> 13 destinations
More than double.
- Air Serbia plans to run 1.040 flights
Croatia Airlines operates a domestic network too so many of those frequencies are domestic flights. So I wouldn't agree with your comments. At least for next month. Other than Frankfurt I'm not so sure Croatia Airlines is offering more frequencies. It barely flies to most western european cities at the moment.
Huge difference.
I just wonder how do you call PSO money OU gets on route ZAG-DBV during the summer?
Extra profit, cherry on the cake or ripping off the government?
@Anon 09:41: Have a look at all the dials in the flight deck next time you fly with them, and then name one single airline (legacy, regional, charter, low-cost, cargo, your choice) in Europe that operates such 737s.
It isnt. ZAG-SPU route can be profitabile, but not on more then 2 daily flights during winter or 3 during the summer. Road transport is its major competitor, but for importance of local faster connectivity, PSO is given to OU to keep flying up to 3 daily in winter (sometimes more) and 5 daily in summer. These freqencies have no commercial sence and thats why they are payed for it.
ZAG-DBV is little bit more profitabile, because of bad road connectivity, but still do you think is profitabile to fly 4 daily flights in winter to a city with 40.000 people? Of course not, 2 daily would have commercial sense, but 4 definitly not. Thats why they are payed.
Do you have any link supporting it?
There is a tender for state aid?
Anon 10:32
10 mil for 90 weakly flights against 28 weakly flights for 7.5 mil.
Huger difference right?
Also your comparison is stupid. Croatia is funding with 10 million flights which last for 30-40 minutes. On top of that, on these flights some city authorities, like City of Dubrovnik buy out seats, giving funding boost. Almost all flights from Nis that are being funded are those lasting over an hour and a half, none are operated by turboprop planes, and they are all operated to European airports outside of the country, some of them main airports like Rome.
There are plenty of them in Europe still, there's one in Sofia at least.