Air Serbia retires ATR72-500s

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Air Serbia has officially retired the ATR72-500 aircraft from its fleet with the last of the -500 series of the turboprop having operated for the airline in late January. It comes as the Serbian carrier successfully renewed its ATR fleet over the last year with the younger -600 series. The airline still operates a single older ATR72-200 aircraft. Air Serbia now boasts six ATR72-600s, one of which is wet-leased from Romania’s Air Connect. A further two units are to join this summer, with more details on the fleet to be revealed next week as part of EX-YU Aviation News’ interview with Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek.

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  1. Anonymous13:31

    Bravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

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  2. Anonymous13:47

    Why they keep the oldest one? Strange

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    1. Anonymous13:47

      Because they own it. The -500s were leased

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    2. Anonymous16:30

      Retired sounds like success, achieving a banchmark. In reality, they are just returning aircraft to the owner. Big deal. The fact, there is a lot of wet dreams, wishful thinking, megalomania and leadership surrounding JU, which is, frankly speaking, a rather small and irrelevant player.

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    3. Anonymous16:31

      It is success. They replaced their entire fleet of ATRs in a year and reduced the average ATR fleet age from 27 to 7 years. Seems like you have a problem with JU.

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    4. Frankly speaking, I wish Croatia Airlines were such a small and irrelevant player 😃

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    5. pozdrav iz Rijeke16:32

      Franky speaking, what does that have to do with the Air Serbia retiring ATR72-500?

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    6. Anonymous18:06

      Pozdrav, I would rather OU stay as regional leader with their shiny brand new A220 fleet.

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    7. Anonymous18:09

      ^ How can you be a regional leader with 13 international routes from your main hub, 5 years of losses and sliding passenger share?

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    8. @An.18.06
      Croatia Airlines flies combination of ancient airbuses and turboprops, not "shiny brand new A220 fleet". So jump first, then say hop. Number of their destinations and services is shamefully low. Their market share within one of the biggest european tourist mega powers is even lower and more shameful, and declining. They are pathetic feeder and humiliated servant of Lufthansa. They are full of crime, corruption and incompetence. They generate disgracefull losses, bigger year by year. Calling regional leader such a failure is something I really can't understand. But maybe I am just stupid, and can't understand it because I don't have Kradeze thieves booklet.


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    9. Anonymous00:18

      Pozz, promašio si ceo fudbaler, as usual.

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    10. A Vi ste toliko briljantno inteligentni da ne znate ni da je izraz "promasio si ceo fudbal", a ne fudbaler. Jos jedan dokaz briljantne inteligencije je odgovor na obrazlozene cinjenice praznom doskocicom, i to pogresnom. Ostale zakljucke prepustam objektivnim citateljma uz preporuku da tikate samo one iz svog sela s kojima zajedno cuvate ovce, a da se meni i ostalima nepoznatima ovdje obracate sa "Vi", ili barem na engleskom, zvanicnom jeziku bloga, iako mi je iz dosadasnje komunikacije potpuno jasno da Vam isti, uz kvocijent inteligencije, bas i nije jaca strana

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  3. Anonymous14:20

    On Air Serbia's website there is no more ATR72-200 in the fleet section. Seems like YU-ALP is also retired.

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    1. Anonymous14:21

      It was flying the other day.

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    2. Anonymous14:35

      It hasn't been flying in the past 7 days. Last flight was on March 2nd.

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    3. ALP finished on 03 march

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  4. Anonymous15:22

    How many years were the ATR72-500s in the JU fleet?

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    1. JATBEGMEL17:22

      9 years.

      2 were in total in the fleet - YU-ALT and YU-ALU.

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    2. Anonymous17:59

      There was also YU-ALV.

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    3. Anonymous18:00

      And YU-ALV

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  5. Anonymous15:27

    What's the green plastic on the aircraft in the pic for?

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    1. Anonymous16:09

      Pa skinuli su vrata za drugi...

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    2. Barem ih ne podmazuju maslacem kad se ne mogu zatvorit

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    3. That's YU-ALO, it's in storage.

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  6. Are any of their ATR's flying? According to Airfleets.net, they are all currently stored.

    https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Air%20Serbia-stored-atr.htm

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    1. Anonymous15:57

      What do you mean? They have 6 operational ATRs and one on wet lease.

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    2. JATBEGMEL17:26

      Airfleets is wrong. For some reason all their ATR's are listed as stored on airfleets, which couldn't be further from the truth.

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  7. Anonymous20:21

    Where are they parked up?

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  8. Anonymous23:14

    Bravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸.
    Samo napred!!!

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