NEWS FLASH
Air Serbia handled 2.76 million travellers in 2022, with the carrier registering record monthly passenger results from July until the end of the year. The national carrier operated a total of 31.420 flights from three international airports in Serbia - its hub in Belgrade, as well as the airports in Niš and Kraljevo. The average annual load factor stood at 72%, which represents an increase of eight points year-on-year. In 2022, Air Serbia expanded its network with fifteen new destinations and reinforced its fleet with seven additional aircraft. During the previous year, Air Serbia flew to a total of 87 routes across Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa via scheduled, seasonal, and charter flights. The airline operated a total of 2.663 charters on a total of 21 routes, achieving a 10% better result than in 2021. From Belgrade and Niš, it operated charters on as many as nine routes in Greece, six in Turkey, three in Egypt, two in Italy, and one in Tunisia. By carrying nearly 5.000 tons of cargo, Air Serbia Cargo improved its figures by 30% on 2021. The airline’s Premium Lounge in Belgrade welcomed 54.000 guests during the year. “Over the last twelve months, we have worked to utilise the opportunities that arose, quickly adapting to changing market conditions. We focused our strengths and capacities on further development and growth of the company and all our employees. Thanks to our ambitious goals and readiness to work on their implementation in an agile and enterprising manner, we have achieved record-breaking results in various spheres. In terms of the number of passengers carried, we are only two percentage points away from the record-breaking pre-pandemic year of 2019”, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, said.
I really hope they succeed in Budapest this year. Beat of luck to them.
ReplyDeleteIf they succeed in Budapest, they will succeed everywhere.
DeleteJiri is really the best thing thath happened to JU.
ReplyDeleteHow come Naysnith ended up as the CFO at Qatar?
DeleteIt's not like he did wonders at Air Serbia 🤔.
#kuckoeffect
Ah yes because running an airline is down to one person
DeleteIt seems so, ever since he left.
DeleteNice numbers. Usuly it was hard to see the numbers. Now everything is given. Great!
ReplyDeleteTheir lounge seems to be seriously underutilised, despite being open to Priority Pass holders as well as JU, QR etc. business class pax. Maybe they should try to get some more airlines into the fold that are currently sending their pax to the rather mediocre Business Club.
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DeleteOnce inserted runway is ready, could Air Serbia perform a one-off parallel takeoff (12R and 12L for example) with both A330s at the same time? Lil' showboating for media and planespotters but also a nice keepsake as it would never be allowed again.
ReplyDeleteLike parallel takeoffs at San Francisco, but this would have to be without passengers.
DeleteMinimum distance between two runways that permits independent parallel (simultaneous) operations is 760 m. The main and the inserted runway in Beograd do not permit even an independent parallel (simultaneous) taxi (except, maybe, for general aviation, that is, very small aircraft).
DeleteI should clarify, this is not a comment about the purposefulness of the inserted runway in Beograd, but about the limitations for parallel operations.
For regular ops. But Patrouille Suisse and other aerobatic teams take off combined from the single runway as a formation. They also fly with Swiss passenger aircraft in formation. All of that is a lot more risk than well planned and rehearsed two A330s parallel takeoff without passengers at two BEG runways. Just one time, of course.
DeleteBe aware there’s a massive difference between the formation flying and formation take-off/landing. Formation take-off/landing is performed exclusively with military highly manœuvrable aircraft and by military pilots. Mind you, Patrouille Suisse is a military aerobatic unit. Taking off in formation with commercial passenger jets would equal Russian roulette. No marketing value would justify such a level of risk (nor would any sane regulator authorise it).
DeleteA330s would be on separate runways 12L and 12R, not in formation on the same runway. I have enjoyed being aboard regular passenger flights during SFO parallel takeoffs and went fine and smooth every time for example 19L/19R. Yes they are further apart than centerlines of Belgrade 12L/12R but again - SFO has them for regular passenger ops, and what I proposed for 2 A330s would not be the same. Is it that hard to comprehend the difference?
DeleteSorry 1L/1R, not 19L/R.
DeleteLet me put it this way - you can fit twelve people into a Golf but it still doesn’t make it a car for twelve. People do that, but in a circus, not in the streets.
DeleteIn this allegory, Patrouille Suisse is a Golf in a circus, SFO is a bus, and BEG is a Golf on a street.
Or I can put it this way - forget about it, it won’t happen, ever.
No doubt there was someone at Swiss that said exact same sentence when idea to fly A321 in formation was floated. Thankfully great things are made by those who can, not by those who can't. Enjoy:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/X-C9Abz4msk?t=44
My last piece of advice for you:
Delete1. Go watch the video that you had posted the link to, and try finding the formation take-off and landing of passenger jets on it.
2. When you don’t find it, ask yourself “why?”.
3. Then come back here and read my previous replies to understand why.
With passengers aboard:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/FB4AFFnrHKA
https://youtu.be/Ku1TgqvX5dg
With passengers nearby:
https://youtu.be/CSq6lk9NS-4
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to their US code share? Nobody is talking about that anymore, but it was supposed to be finalized by the end of 2022.
"Also, as we previously said, since we are expanding on the US market, we are in the final stages of negotiation of a codeshare agreement with one of the US carriers, which we plan to announce either at the end of the year or the beginning of next year”, Dec. 6, 2022
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2022/12/air-serbia-to-add-new-middle-east.html
So basically nothing new.
DeleteHe said it will be beginning of this year. It is currently the month of January
DeleteYeah but first they said end of the year, then changed it to beginning of the year a couple of weeks later
DeleteCongratulations! The load factor needs improvement though.
ReplyDeleteConspicuously missing are any financial measures which, let's be honest, are kind of important even if you are running a government-supported airline (which I am not saying is bad per se). Curious if hiding financial numbers likely allows the ruling regime in Belgrade to do all sorts of financially creative moves and likely employ hundreds of otherwise useless folks who have the party card... Just wondering...
ReplyDeleteBefore launching into a conspiricy theory, it might have been worth clicking the Air Serbia tag and finding the news you were seeking already published.
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2023/01/air-serbia-posts-record-21-million-net.html