Air Serbia boosts Montenegro operations

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Flight data indicates a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March was intentionally put into a nose-dive. Investigators have so far not found any mechanical or technical faults with the jet, the reports say, citing a preliminary assessment by US officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the southern Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou when it crashed. All 132 passengers and crew on board the plane died in the crash. "The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit", according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, citing a person familiar with US officials' preliminary assessment of the cause of the crash. Data from one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, which was recovered from the crash site, suggested that inputs to the controls pushed the plane into a near-vertical dive, the report said. China Eastern Airlines previously said the three pilots on board were qualified and in good health. The airline separately told the Wall Street Journal that there was no indication that any of the pilots was in financial trouble. Last month, the CAAC said reports that the plane may have been crashed deliberately had "gravely misled the public" and "interfered with accident investigation work". Investigators are still in the process of analysing flight data and the wreckage from the crash, Chinese state media outlet the Global Times reported. It also said the CAAC will continue to "carry out the accident investigation in a scientific, rigorous and orderly manner". The Chinese embassy in Washington, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and plane maker Boeing declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal's report, due to guidelines set out by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization.

Air Serbia boosts Montenegro operations

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Responding to increased demand for travel between Serbia and Montenegro, the Serbian national carrier has increased its capacity between the two countries by introducing additional flights and upgrading aircraft on services to Tivat and Podgorica. Between January 17 and January 30, Air Serbia has added three extra flights to Tivat and upgraded its turboprop ATR operations to the Airbus A319, while two planned A319 flights have been upgraded to the higher-capacity A320. Capacity has also been increased to Podgorica on January 17. 19 and 24. It comes following the collapse of Montenegro Airlines late last year and the lifting of compulsory PCR testing requirements for entry between Serbia and Montenegro. “We remain committed to the Montenegrin market and we will continue monitoring the situation, adapting the volume of traffic to changes in demand. Our goal is to maintain a continuous and strong air connection between cities in the region in order to enable all passengers to easily travel to their desired destinations”, Jiri Marek, Air Serbia’s General Manager for Commercial and Strategy, said. The carrier added, “Immediately following the shutdown of Montenegro Airlines, Air Serbia increased capacity between the two countries and deployed additional resources at airports in Podgorica, Tivat and Belgrade, in order to serve all our passengers under the given circumstances”.

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