Russia’s Red Wings Airlines plans new Belgrade routes


Red Wings Airlines has applied and received permits from the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia to launch two weekly flights each from Kazan and Yekaterinburg to Belgrade. If the Russian airline decides to exercise these rights, it will have to receive approval from the Serbian Civil Aviation Directorate prior to launching operations. The Serbian regulator has refused to issue permits to two Russian carriers this summer - S7 Airlines and Ural Airlines - in line with the stringent bilateral air service agreement between the two countries. Red Wings maintained flights between Moscow and Belgrade prior to the pandemic, but has suspended all international flights since, with exception to Yerevan in Armenia.

Serbia has emerged as one of the most popular markets for Russian tourists this year. During the first six months of 2021, Serbia was the fourth most popular non-CIS international market for Russian travellers according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia. It was behind only Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus, but ahead of Greece, Tunisia, Croatia and Mexico. Currently, three airlines maintain operations between the two countries including Air Serbia, Aeroflot, and Nordwind Airlines. The Serbian carrier maintains services to Moscow, St Petersburg, Krasnodar, and Rostov-on-Don, while Aeroflot runs flights from Moscow and St Petersburg. Nordwind operates flights from Russia’s two largest cities as well and has scheduled the launch of its new service from Rostov starting September 16.

There have never been nonstop flights from Kazan and Yekaterinburg to Belgrade. Based on OAG data, Kazan is currently the busiest unserved route between Serbia and Russia with some 2.951 indirect passengers, while there were a further 1.816 travellers flying between Kazan and Belgrade on a single itinerary. The two cities are currently covered by a codeshare agreement between Air Serbia and Aeroflot. Red Wings Airlines boasts a fleet of just over twenty aircraft including Airbus A320s and A321s, Boeing 777s and Sukhoi Superjets.



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  1. Anonymous09:02

    Doubt CAD will allow it.

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    1. Anonymous09:11

      I think they might because these don't affect JU.

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  2. Anonymous09:02

    Will they also resume Moscow flights?

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  3. Anonymous09:02

    Had the Serbian directorate allowed all flights to Russia so far, we would have had a very developed network between the two countries.

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  4. Anonymous09:09

    Nice

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  5. Anonymous09:09

    Hope these launch

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  6. Anonymous09:10

    Basically all of the main points in Russia will be covered from BEG.

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    1. Anonymous09:11

      Chances of these flights launching are slim.

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  7. Anonymous09:10

    Good ties should be utilized as much as possible

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  8. Anonymous09:11

    That is one random fleet.

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    1. Anonymous09:13

      I'm surprised how modern their fleet is.

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    2. Anonymous09:36

      I like their new livery :)

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  9. Anonymous09:12

    Rostov by N4 is still on sale so hopefully these flights happen.

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    1. Anonymous09:14

      Yes, interestingly Air Serbia's flights to Rostov are still not on sale for this winter.

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    2. Anonymous09:16

      Rostov is probably performing well for them because of increased tourist demand. However JU is very expensive, I think over €300.

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    3. Anonymous09:19

      Probably it is cheaper for transfer passengers which make up the majority on this route.

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    4. Anonymous09:22

      Locals make up around 35% of the passengers from Rostov.

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    5. Anonymous09:28

      Those will probably be taken over by Nordwind.

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    6. Anonymous09:52

      I fear so too since JU doesn't have a good sales department.Though their Sunday flight at 20.30 out of BEG should be popular with locals. However they have to lower their prices.

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  10. Anonymous09:17

    What is also interesting is that SU will operate widebodies to BEG until the end of October.

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    1. Anonymous09:20

      Probably past October too as it doesn't look other countries will reopen for Russians any time soon.

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    2. Anonymous09:38

      Shame Russians are not allowing more flights to Moscow. There seems to be enough demand.

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    3. Anonymous09:53

      I wouldn't mind SU's current timetable post October. Three daily to BEG <3

      Of course this will change ... unfortunately.

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  11. Other parts of Russia definitely show potential for BEG flights. Interconnection and transfer to BEG as final destination make sense, especially if some of those carriers have strong regional presence in other corners of Russia. Russian presence is significant and tourism will/should be on the rise. Djafte-Kurafte article from few weeks ago had similar view. Hope it lasts for RUS-SRB interconnection.

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    1. Anonymous09:29

      Djafte-Kurafte?

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  12. Anonymous09:21

    How many flights did Redwings have between Moscow and Belgrade?

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    1. Anonymous09:24

      I think they started with two but before covid those increased to 4. Since they started flying Russian arrivals to Serbia started to boom. Same with N4.

      Only goes to show JU-SU duopoly is hurting the economy.

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    2. Anonymous09:24

      They operated 4 weekly and scheduled daily flights from summer 2020 but it never happened because of Covid.

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    3. Anonymous09:37

      Thanks. Which airport did they fly from Moscow?

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    4. Anonymous09:41

      Domodedovo.

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  13. Anonymous09:24

    Ako JU ne planira letove za ove gradove,dobiće dozvolu. Interesi nacionalnog avio prevoznika se moraju završiti kad god je to moguće. Sa druge strane ovi letovi neće uspeti bez potpisanog kod-šer sporazuma sa JU. Na letovima za Krasnodar i Rostov je preko 60% transfernih putnika,ne verujem da bi bio drugačiji slučaj i sa ove dve rute.

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    1. Anonymous09:54

      Том логиком ако ЈУ не успе на некој линији онда нико не може? Ево Виндроз се не слаже са вама. ЈУ пукао на Кијеву а они додали и трећи лет овог лета а многе летове су повећали на АТР који има више седишта од Е145.

      Нордвинд је у власништву туристичке агенције што значи да они сами продају пакет аранжмане. Шта ће им ЈУ?

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    2. Anonymous10:18

      JU nije pukao u Kijevu već je obustavio letove zbog korone. Vratiće se sigurno tamo.

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    3. Anonymous10:44

      Vindroz je pukao na mnogim rutama zbog korone pa su pokrenuli letove za mesta gde nema ograničenja da im avioni ne bi sedeli parkirani. JU ovog leta svoje kapacitete koristi do maksimuma sa mnogo partera(juče 17)čak su i fudbaleri Partizana odleteli za Portugaliji sa E4 jer JU nije imao slobodan avion. Predpostavljam da im Kijev za ovo leto nije bio ni na kraj pameti.

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  14. Anonymous09:27

    I was hoping all these new routes from Russia would decrease prices between Russia and Serbia but it is not the case.

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    1. Anonymous09:55

      Because demand exploded and capacity is being limited. If they allowed all those players to enter then prices would go down as well.

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  15. Anonymous09:31

    Nothing will come out of this because the bilateral is effectively restricting flying between those two countries as much as possible .

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    1. Anonymous09:56

      Nordwind managed somehow so we should pray WZ succeeds as well.

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  16. Anonymous09:32

    Some of these routes I'm not sure will work. Based on the data in the article they don't have that many point to point passengers.

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    1. Anonymous09:32

      Data is for before Covid when Russians had many other opportunities to travel.

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  17. Anonymous09:32

    Good luck!

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  18. Anonymous09:41

    Great news for Belgrade

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  19. Anonymous09:42

    And still nothing on INI-Russia market

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    1. Anonymous09:43

      Red Wings used to operate some Nis charters in 2017.

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  20. Anonymous09:43

    JU should perhaps make LED year round.

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    1. Anonymous09:49

      LED probably will go year round once Covid passes.

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    2. Anonymous09:50

      Then it will take a while.

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    3. Anonymous09:57

      Russia still didn't release frequencies for winter so we don't know what the schedule will look like and what restrictions will be put in place.

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  21. Anonymous09:50

    Good. The more foreign visitors the better.

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  22. Anonymous09:50

    Flights to Russia have great potential

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  23. Anonymous09:51

    Let's just hope they launch

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  24. Anonymous09:52

    Nice development. Hope these routes start and can be sustained.

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  25. Anonymous09:54

    With these new routes BEG will have very good coverage in Russia.

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    1. Anonymous10:03

      Missing some far east routes in Russia :D

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    2. Anonymous10:05

      Vladivostok

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    3. Anonymous10:11

      Novosibirsk, that's a big S7 base :D

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  26. Anonymous10:01

    From all the new routes, exotic charters from India, various announcements ...

    For me the biggest surprise is still Luxair.

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    1. Anonymous10:04

      And the route seems to be performing well since they upgraded it to year round and already scheduled an additional weekly flight for next summer.

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  27. Anonymous10:31

    What other routes could work between Belgrade and Russia?

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  28. Anonymous12:36

    Mislim da uz adekvatan code share aranzman JU moze da profitira od ovakvih ruta, a da ne rizikuje da ulazi u rizične rute i zauzima avion sa dužim rotacijama, pogotovo van sezone. Al pitanje dal ce strateski planeri to videti

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    1. Anonymous14:13

      Samo da ne rizikuje da ulazi u rizične rute.

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  29. Anonymous12:42

    Yekaterinburg is a dump, Kazan is nice though

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    1. Anonymous14:24

      Have you been there?

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    2. Anonymous18:54

      Stop talking stupidity.

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